We are delighted to celebrate our 6th anniversary with the Spanish producer Architectural (R&S Records / Non Series).

Architectural’s original foundations were anonymous, recognising no need to reveal who was behind the alias. 
But the same man who took DJ booths and festivals by storm as Reeko needed a new alter ego to channel his effervescent spells of creativity.
Diving deep into another realm, Architectural delivers powerful and intelligent sounds that amalgamate classic influences with his own modern vision of techno. 
It is a route that has taken the Catalonian-based Asturian creator on a very different artistic path to the one initially mapped out.
Architectural laid the foundations with five solid releases between 2010 and 2014 on his own label Architectural Records (Architectural 001-005). 
In 2012 Architectural released Peacetime with Semantica Records, an imprint revered for their highly critical A&R process and so the selection of Architectural proved he was on the right track; both at the hypothetical drawing table and with the first hard samples of his construction work.
Juan's next step in 2013 certified Architectural's maturity. 
He published The Blue Album (Reeko & Architectural) with PoleGroup, a fusion of his two projects that resulted in a spatial and futuristic sound with jazz hues and feels of a movie soundtrack.
2014 brought The Secret Chapter, a release steeped in cinematic flavour and inspired by what may happen at night in a remote forest. 
The mood was dark and boasted an outstanding fusion of jazz and techno.
In 2015 Architectural launched Amour with Dutch label Wolfskuil, courtesy of Darko Esser, a release of pure quality. 
As a record it was far more dance floor focused than the preceding release, bringing luminosity, melody and life without ever departing from the intimate moods and obsession for precision that have become a hallmark of Architectural's work.

As the project defined and matured, Juan finally revealed that himself as the force behind both Reeko and Architectural. 
Does this mean he's not entirely sure about what he wants to create? 
Does he suffer from bipolarity? 
Maybe, instead, he's the kind of artist that during the Renaissance would have been called a total artist, a true creator, a maestro in the widest sense of the word.
Alongside his concrete releases, Architectural’s concept has also been delivered to iconic clubs and festivals worldwide. 
Dancers and music lovers at Printworks London, MMA, BASSIANI, Tresor Berlin, Robert Johnson, Awakenings & L.E.V. Festival have all had the opportunity to absorb his next-level creativity and vision. 
As the lines and framework of Architectural’s concept continue to rise and give form, the landscape of Juan’s techno vision becomes an ever more defined audio world in which to immerse the mind and soul.

We could not be more honored to host one of our favorite artists on the series.
Enjoy the ride! 🔥🔥🔥

@architectural-1

Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #158 - Architectural

Artist: Kareeem
Title: 'Transit'
Label: Zhark Recordings
Cat. #: ZHARKDIGI006
Format: Digital
Release: 29st September, 2025
Pre order: https://kareem-zhark.bandcamp.com/album/11-1988

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Kareem' gem on 'Zhark Recordings'.

''A collage of 8 handcrafted technoid designs embedded within a densely retrospective framework.
Emphasizing on details, arrangement  progression, and tension buildups.
Inspired by the BRIX-MIS Patrol VHS-C documentation, which was recorded on a cold, grey November day in 1988: Embarking at Jafféstraße, passing by Deutschlandhalle as it entered the AVUS heading towards Potsdam-set against the twilight of the waning Cold War 1980s.''

@kareem-zhark
@zharkrecordingsberlin

Premiere: Kareem - Transit [Zhark Recordings]

Artist: Autumns
Title: 'Solid Liquid'
Label: Dystant Recordings
Cat. #: DST012
Format: Cassette & Digital
Release: 17th October,​ ​2025
Pre order: https://dystantrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dea…mance-v-a

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Autumns' gem on 'Dystant Recordings'.

''A rose, forgotten in a basket, wrapped in plastic and surrounded by chaos.
Out of place, yet not by chance.
It is there because it endures, and that endurance tells a story.

Death Romance is born from this vision: a silent beauty, muted yet still significant.
It is not mere nostalgia, but a living tension — a tension between what persists and what we choose not to see.
Our music inhabits these spaces.
It is an act of listening, not just of expression.
It does not narrate, explain, or simplify.
Instead, it lets something emerge: scribbles, rips, distorted sounds, raw materials, details that seem out of place.
And yet, they are exactly where they belong.

Each track in this work offers a perspective.
Each artist has contributed a fragment of reality, creating a dissonant and authentic picture.
In a world that moves on, this is our way of staying.
Because certain things — even when hidden, even when dirty, even when left to decay — still pulse.
And from there, they speak.''

@autumns
@dystantrecordings

Premiere: Autumns - Solid Liquid [Dystant Recordings]

We are very pleased to welcome Samuel Kerridge as our 47th guest on the Kaos London podcast series ahead of his brilliant new album 'Memoir of Disintegration' on Blueprint Records and live album premiere at the Kaos XXII x altar VII anniversary event hosted by Iklectik on November 13th. 

The British producer has been carefully turning techno inside-out for over a decade. Taking a distinctly post-punk approach to the genre, he has become an integral part of Regis' legendary imprint Downwards. Kerridge has helped to define the label's contemporary sound: broken techno and snarling punk, informed by industrial music and metal.

Kerridge ran the Berlin-based Contort label and party series and curated the legendary Berlin Atonal festival for three years, underlining his credentials as a stalwart figure in the world of experimental, boundary-pushing techno. He's also an accomplished live performer, most recently developing a hybrid live-DJ set that dismantles hundreds of tracks into a sampler to make new music in real time. It's an inventive process that places him in the lineage of iconic and groundbreaking techno acts, while still carrying the flag for the darkest corners of underground electronic music.

Kaos London podcast #47 - Samuel Kerridge

“Falling” merges Black Asteroid’s industrial precision with Ian Astbury’s unmistakable voice, existing within Jesse Draxler’s expanding creative ecosystem. The track appears on WORKING TITLE, Jesse Draxler’s latest multidisciplinary project, released on October 31 via Federal Prisoner.

Emerging as a conceptual evolution of Draxler’s Reigning Cement, WORKING TITLE challenges conventions through themes of inversion, the dissolution of boundaries, and the redefinition of beauty through disorder. As with the entire project, Draxler’s touch extends across every layer—from the original field recordings that form its sonic DNA to the overarching visual and curatorial vision—ensuring WORKING TITLE stands as a fully immersive and uncompromised creative statement.

@blackasteroid
https://www.instagram.com/jessedraxler
https://www.instagram.com/federalprisoner/
https://www.instagram.com/ianastburyofficial


PREMIERE: BLACK ASTEROID - FALLING (FEAT. IAN ASTBURY) [ Federal Prisoner ]

[FOMO_LIVE] 001 - @reeko-music

Recorded at FOMO_stage
Electrum Up To Date Festival
May 30, 2025

[FOMO_LIVE] 001 - Reeko

Artist: Samuel Kerridge
Title: 'Tiddlers Late'
Label: Blueprint Records 
Cat. #: BPLP04
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release: 5th December, 2025
Pre order: https://blueprintrecords.bandcamp.com/album/memoir-of-disintegration-2

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere an extract of the upcoming Samuel Kerridge' LP on 'Blueprint Records'.

‘Turn the gain up on your mixer, drop an E, whack a knuckle duster on, ave it’

@samuelkerridge
@jamesruskin-blueprint

Premiere: Samuel Kerridge - Tiddlers Late [Blueprint Records]

O/V/R Live @ Blueprint Records Night, Berghain 11/02/12

Minimalistic yet intense sonic experiments Yannick sent to me at night.

@raum_antibodylabel

NYX RITUAL XXIII - RAUM LIVE

[ES] Recuperamos un extracto del live que Kareem (Zhark Recordings, Berlin) nos ofreció un lejano 24 de Octubre de 2015 en la Sala Siroco, Madrid. Esperamos que lo disfrutes tanto como nosotros.

Kareem Live (Zhark Recordings, Berlin)

"Kareem aka Patrick Stottrop es el cofundador de Zhark Recordings y su subsello Ramadán. Desde 1996 y hasta 2007 firmó y publico algunos de los mejores  y más oscuros discos de corte industrial, llevando la experimentación electrónica hasta limites nunca pisados en aquella época. Su sonido se fundía en negro, con el techno, el hiphop y el drone, creando una estética sombria y metálica, con el objetivo de transmitir y recrearse en un estado clautrofobico. 

En 2012, gracias al ojo clínico de Boomkat, casi toda la discográfica de Zhark Recordings, se reedito en formato digital. Todo un acierto, observando los distintos proyectos de corte industrial que nos llegan en el mercado actual.

Quizás por ello, a partir de ese año,  un renovado Kareem vuelve a reactivar su propio sello, además de publicar junto a unos alumnos aventajados como Ancient Methods en Fondation Sonore, el sello de Amélie Ravalec (Paris/Berlin: 20 Years Of Underground Techno) o en otro destacado del underground, Death Of Rave. 

Este pionero, muchas veces  injustamente infravalorado, nos ofrecerá un directo clínico, para recrearnos en la oscuridad. Un arsenal de sensaciones que nos acecharan desde las sombras desde el minuto cero."
(Texto original del evento, 24 de Octubre de 2015)
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[EN] We retrieve an excerpt from the live that Kareem (Zhark Recordings, Berlin) offered us on a distant October 24, 2015 in Sala Siroco, Madrid. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Kareem Live (Zhark Recordings, Berlin)

"Kareem aka Patrick Stottrop is the co-founder of Zhark Recordings and its sub-stamp Ramadan. From 1996 to 2007 he signed and published some of the best and darkest industrial-style records, taking electronic experimentation to limits never trodden at that time. His sound melted into black, with techno, hiphop and drone, creating a somber and metallic aesthetic, with the aim of transmitting and recreating in a claustrophobic state.

In 2012, thanks to Boomkat's clinical eye, almost the entire Zhark Recordings record label was reissued in digital format. Quite a success, observing the different industrial projects that come to us in the current market.

Perhaps that is why, from that year, a renewed Kareem reactivates his own label, in addition to publishing with some outstanding students as Ancient Methods in Fondation Sonore, the label of Amélie Ravalec (Paris / Berlin: 20 Years Of Underground Techno ) or in another underground highlight, Death Of Rave.

This pioneer, often unfairly undervalued, will offer us a clinical direct, to recreate ourselves in the dark. An arsenal of sensations that haunted us from the shadows from minute zero. "
(Original text of the event, October 24, 2015)

http://www.zhark.de/
https://summerinthecity.es/

Kareem live (excerpt) @ Trauma, Sala Siroco, Madrid, October 24th 2015

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Kareem. One of the most influential figures of Berlin’s electronic music history, Kareem has been active since 1996 and is the founder of Zhark Recordings, an important label which is known for pushing the boundaries of dance music. He now lands on Aesthetical for a powerful solo work which further cements his status as an innovator and producer who is not confined by genre or sound. 

Ligeia is a 5 track EP which takes three tracks from last year’s Garden Of Time (Zhark) release and adds two tracks which include “Sorcerer” a recent production of technoid mayhem and tension-building atmospheres which unleash hostility and engulfs us in an electronic inferno. 

The EP is out July 3rd on limited vinyl and digital. Visit Bandcamp to get yours. www.thebrvtalist.com/kareemsorcerer/

@aesthetical_recordings

Kareem - Sorcerer (Aesthetical)

rites received by @Rangelova / ᛅᛚᛏᛅᚱ.
no submissions please. thank you.

Are you bathing in moonlight?
Are you drowning in tears?
I thought I had lost you
But I now find you here
In the darkness we share

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