all tracks written and recorded 26.08.2025
by Luca van Grinsven and Tom Polleau

perfect driver

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u don wanna try? 
wnan tr4y?
dont wanna? try
u don, yu dont
wanna try?

dont/wanna/try

Drowned By Locals marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume digital anthology and a limited printed manifesto, Black Circle, written by Ian Bruner and published by Drowned By Public.

drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/porn…c-tantalus

Rather than serving as a retrospective, the anthology traces the label’s evolving sound, its expanding cohort of misfits, and its unfolding trajectory. Across the three volumes, DBL assembles new works, long-buried material, and contributions from artists connected to the label through releases, radio, dormant ideas, or future intentions. Taken together, they form a portrait of the label’s instinctive curatorial logic — pairing worlds that should not, by any reasonable measure, coexist.

Release Schedule 
Volume I: Pornographic-Time, Vol. I — The Pornographic-Tantalus — November 28, 2025 
Volume II: Pornographic-Time, Vol. II — The Continuous Present — December 19, 2025 
Volume III: Pornographic-Time, Vol. III — The Horizonless Interface — January 30, 2026

All volumes draw their titles and thematic direction from Black Circle. The manifesto describes “pornographic-time” as a condition in which desire is continuously activated but never fulfilled. It’s the experience of being pulled outward by images, demands, and expectations faster than one can return to oneself. You remain visible, but rarely seen.

Each volume adopts a different facet of this state.

Volume I — The Pornographic-Tantalus
“Each gesture toward conclusion makes the object recede. Tantalus stands beneath bowed fruit trees, but as she moves to consume, the branch bends away. With each pang of thirst, the water ebbs further.”

Volume II — The Continuous Present
“Because of its accelerated pace, pornographic-time both appears and vanishes instantly—a cybernetic loop, a continuous present. Overfull and empty. Life collapses into micro-moments that disappear as soon as they arrive.”

Volume III — The Horizonless Interface
“Both the targeted individual and the pornographic-Tantalus occupy the time-space of the horizonless interface, hived in algorithmic neurological pathways and pathologies, resulting in a bare life layered with compulsive and neurotic loops of behavior.”

Black Circle expands these ideas into print, combining Bruner’s text with visual contributions from more than twenty artists. Released in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies, it will be available independently or bundled with the anniversary T-shirt. All physical editions include the full three-volume digital anthology.

releases November 28, 2025

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin
Artwork & design by Giovanni Murolo
Curation by Laith Demashqieh
Manifesto: Black Circle — text by Ian Bruner (published by Drowned By Public, printed edition: hand-numbered run of 100 copies)

DBL42DLI

Pornographic-Time, Vol. I: The Pornographic-Tantalus

Betty Hammerschlag - Wiggle Wiggle

from the album 'Fake Girl', out 29 Oct, blush03

@betty-hammerschlag

fake girl

Betty Hammerschlag - Circlesss

As We Laid Together

To accompany the first issue of miniskirt Volume 2, Mille-feuille (December 2025), featuring work by Martina Cox, Lena Greene, Oritsemughone Ogbemi, and Laurel Schwulst & Wietske Nutma.

Mille-feuille

tracklist:
New Recording 190
New Recording 191
New Recording 192
New Recording 194
New Recording 197
New Recording 198
New Recording 199
New Recording 200
New Recording 201
New Recording 202
New Recording 204
New Recording 205
New Recording 206
New Recording 208

a way

MADJESTIC KASUAL + DJ CORPMANE + RISH 18.11.25

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-20th-november-2025

United In Flames w/ Pjörrt & Malibu 201125

A.C. Marias - Just Talk
The Passions - Love Song
Strawberry Switchblade - Go Away (1982 Demo)
citrus - Information Spells S.P.Y.
Vivien Goldman - Launderette
P'o - Time and Time
Satin Wall - Dans les profondeurs
Vermooste Vløten - Heimatlied
Hirono Nishiyama - Harpy In A Perspective
Patti Smith and Fred Sonic Smith - It Takes Time
ddwy - Stars Stars
Psychic TV - Breakthrough
Coqueta -  Caos Sereno
Pink, Plastic & Panties - Bla-Bla
Vivian Girls - I Believe in Nothing
Ingus Baušķenieks - Pasaulē Ir Tik Daudz Vīriešu Un Sieviešu

OB0589 — Natalia Panzer

@stasczekalski

art by taylor
https://www.instagram.com/___________tnt?igsh=ZHZtM3FvMDdwZm00

CO25 Fall mix
www.candle-object.com

Staś Czekalski - Fall

https://offcenter.online

community, sound publications

initiated by
https://lucavg.me (@valclipp)

Events:

—2024

24.05, Off Center 014 Release & Studio Closing w/ Val Clipp, Yunque, Ghost_k.o., fascia lata & cd dj, Den Haag NL

—2022

04.11, Open Office w/ Max Frimout, c00 & BART, Den Haag NL

23.09, Open Office w/ Wilf Amis, Karl Wille & Lunetten Shadow Banking, Den Haag NL

09.07, Off Center @ k-mess, Kochareal, Zürich CH

22.06, Spectral Heat (hosted by Off Center, Big Fish Factory & RASK Collective) w/ EIGEN RISICO, BART, final boss type zero & Off Center DJs, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

28.05, Off Center 013 Release w/ Val Clipp, grittygun, Berton, ola999 & Ezra V, Den Haag NL

—2021

18.09, Open Office w/ Fascia Lata, onedaylola, Val Clipp, Mary & K.O., Den Haag NL

—2020

27.02, Kantarion Sound x Off Center w/ acte bonté, Mayb3 bab3 (Noise Diva) & Pau, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

—2019

09.10, Off Center 005 Release w/ Val Clipp, Yon Eta, Fascia Lata & scrtom505, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

12.04, Off Center 003 Release w/ James King, Val Clipp & Ni Urban, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

—2018

07.09, Off Center 001 Release w/ Val Clipp, A.V & Svartvit, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

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