This is the second collaboration on Offen by the French post-industrial experimental artist Thierry Mérigout of Geins't Naït, composer and multi-instrumentalist Laurent Petitgand, and the UK composer and sound designer Robin Rimbaud AKA Scanner, whose prolific catalogue includes scores for dance works by the London Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham, and who has performed and installed his music in venues ranging from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to the Pompidou Centre in Paris and a hospital morgue in Garches.
Vitio is a repository of memory: Coastal plateaus and city streets evoked and cracked open by glowering basslines and jumbled rhythms made for ragged walking. Thierry and Laurent have been collaborating together since 1987, the year after Thierry co-founded Geins’t Naït while at the Architecture School of Nancy. Their work together is dense and textural, influenced by Situationists and Surrealists; the raw loops of Geins’t Naït meeting the musicality of Petitgand, a soundtrack composer for film, dance and theatre who has worked closely with director Wim Wenders. Thierry and Laurent first collaborated with Scanner on OFFEN015, a set of otherworldly collaged slow-mo soundscapes. Here, on tracks like Vitio and Austral, threads of sampled dialogue interweave with melodic fragments or repeating piano lines, like the sun breaking through above a tangle of golden wrack and rockweed. On Acid and 63, divine industrial shoegaze sweeps across the windscreen like water washed from trees. Elsewhere, on SIO, submerged clicks surface amid foghorn-like electrostatic charges, an introspective aeromancy. On J’Appartiens, stabs of samples dart back and forth over the ominous time keeping of a sparse beat and pulsing bass. On Sunday and NNSS, we, the invisible listeners, rise to the surface, where there is rain. Both the sounds of NNSS and the rainfall were installed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, as captured in a lovely video made by Thierry’s daughter. Beneath the rain, in a building designed by SANAA architects, paving stones can be seen. Beneath the stones - we can only guess - a cloud. 

Emma Gilkison

Releases January 6, 2025 
written and produced by Laurent Petitgand, Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner and Geins't Naït 
piano on "Austral" by Mélaine Dalibert 
mastered by James Savage at Milk Mastering 
photo by Alix Mérigout 
design by Percy 

OFFEN CD001 

Offen Music 2024

01 Vitio (snippet)

A pool in Barbican Conservatory, London.

Selected by https://soundcloud.com/tylusis

Histoires de Piscine 144 by Tylusis Pankas

Athenian Aggelos Baltas has been producing music for more than 15 years, with his Anatolian Weapons project gathering both local and international praise for its bold blend of disparate styles and influences, spanning a wide spectrum of psychedelic and global dance music

• https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons
• https://www.instagram.com/anatolian_weapons/
• https://www.facebook.com/fantastikoihxoi
• https://anatolianweapons.bandcamp.com/

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• https://linktr.ee/commedeslarmes

Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

• https://soundcloud.com/RENNST

• https://www.instagram.com/_rennst_

Cover photo - @cantaruttirumore


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#anatolianweapons
#commedeslarmes
#cdl
#mutantradio
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Comme Des Larmes invite Anatolian Weapons

It’s done.  Kontrapunkt International is here.

With artists from all over the world, to listeners all over the world.  A double cassette release featuring artists from all six continents, from long-time collaborators to voices I’ve only recently discovered.

For this NEW HIT we bring you Doc Sleep. Long time Berlin resident now US-based she delivers you this loopy, hypnotic, groovy, melancholic summer tune.

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/docsleep 
https://soundcloud.com/kontrapunktsound/

BANDCAMP

NEW HIT: Doc Sleep - On Ice [Kontrapunkt]

For this installment of Computer Transmissions we're proud to present one of our favourite producer/dj's and label head of one of our favourite labels for the last while, who? chief of who is paula.  

who? is a Berlin-based vinyl obssessed DJ and producer known for razor-sharp electro cuts, deep hardware explorations, and a signature sound that fuses machine funk with emotional intensity. As the force behind the Who is Paula label, who? curates a platform dedicated to forward-thinking, high-voltage electro with a focus on raw textures and analog grit

01) Z.I.P.P.O - We Need One Another (Original) [Mistress Recordings HU-MR17-SH]
02) *** - *** [forthcoming Who is Paula]
03) Featherstone - Underneath It All [Ernest's Way ERN006]
04) not even noticed - Cyber Rhythm [Who is Paula WIP006]
05) Fasme - Sweet Flux [Nocta Numerica Records NN016]
06) Unwonted - Blurred Nights [Analog Concept ANCPT010]
07) Caramel Chameleon - d-_-b Future Is Blind [Nottetempo NTT006]
08) Featherstone - Contact [Ernest's Way ERN005]
09) Zobol - Lost in Transit [ElectroVino EV001]
10) Fasme - F.O.G [Analogical Force AF051LP]
11) James Shinra - At The End Of The World [Craigie Knowes CKNOWEP22]
12) James Shinra - Miluv [Analogical Force AF044]
13) not even noticed - Transition [Masa Series MASA005]
14) Zeta Reticula - An Activity Cycle [Eudemonia 015]
15) not even noticed – Feel [Eudemonia 018]
16) Featherstone - Macrocosm [Gated GTD.023]
17) BufoBufo - Weatherworker [Altered Sense AS018]
18) Cignol - Asking for a Friend [Who is Paula WIP009]

https://soundcloud.com/who22
https://soundcloud.com/who-is-paula
https://www.instagram.com/who____22/
https://www.instagram.com/who__is__paula/
https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/


Computer Transmissions 5 - who? - who is paula

With the return of the lunar cycle, the Dream Software servers have been updated with the latest Virtual Utopia patch — now available on the etherweb. Edition 14, this time coded by London-based @ldazedj, consists of a 70-minute high-octane deployment of metallic trance and techno, with destination set for the outerverse. The travelling velocity will distort your reality, so the journey will be just as interesting as reaching the bounds of our known existence.

On the launch platform at the edge of Sector 9, the vessel stood ready — a gleaming silhouette of chrome and light beneath the arc of Earth. Designed in an era of peace and exploration, it embodied a retro-futurist ideal: sweeping fins, polished alloy, plasma coils humming with steady power.
Final inspection unfolded in perfect silence. Drones moved with clockwork precision. Sensors scanned every seam and circuit. Ion thrusters gleamed. Radiation shielding was pristine. Solar sails, folded and stowed, awaited the call of vacuum.

Inside, everything rested in perfect order. Gravity systems held steady. Nutrient modules were stocked and humming. Rest chambers floated in serene suspension. A neural archive shimmered quietly, filled with the memory of countless journeys. In the engine chamber, the core pulsed like a quiet star. One by one, green lights marked completion. No errors. No adjustments. Every system, aligned. 
Clearance was granted. The ship's coils began to glow — a slow, soft blue. Soon, it would slip into the void beyond here, bound for the unknown. For now, it stood still — flawless and luminous — a vessel of hope, built not just to travel, but to experience the future.

The mission has begun. Thankyou Ella for piloting this expedition for us <3

VIrtual Utopia 14: L Daze

Twice does not lead to a tradition - but it feels like playing for @swimsupply 🏊 . Whenever the community organisation focusing on lysergic sounds calls, I am more than happy to meet beloved Ellen, Mark Lando and Tesdorpf and to play for their fine events.

So here is a 2h recording from my gig at Wurm in Basel / Switzerland a few months ago where I met and played with fantastic @sellyourmania and @sprtsmanship and its a rare past forward 🦦💃.

15.03.25 Philipp Otterbach @Swim, Basel / Switzerland

Gil.Barte is a sound artist rooted in the modular and experimental scene, founder of the KUMP and Meth.O.tapes labels, and host of the show "Methodrone" on LYL radio.

In his constant sonic exploration, Gil.Barte delivers meditative, transcendental, and esoteric music, with intriguing, fantastical, and dreamlike sonic images.
His compositions navigate through slow ritual rhythms, drum'n'bass-ish incantations, and other mystical hybrid forms.

A music haunted by glitches and drones, where one loses oneself in a dark ambient, evoking a forest of faces on the walls, muffled corridors, and the whispers of the basement.

After releases on labels such as Big Science, Neubau, and Homemade Sound System, Gil.Barte joins Teenage Menopause crew with his new album "Claviceps Purpurea."

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/gilbartemusic
Follow KUMP - https://soundcloud.com/kumplabel

342⚡️Gil.Barte

🔊 https://youtu.be/p2TUxI9aR7E
https://soundcloud.com/romanas_g: Recorded in one take. No AI, no edits, no spiritual guidance. Just tracks I’ve been playing and enjoying over the past few months. May be used in clubs, kitchens, preparties, or headphones while pretending to exercise.

https://soundcloud.com/digitaltsunami
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/oniss

Times New Roman is a party-proof acid sommelier and associate professor of partying. Spinning records since the early 2000s, with more raves and afterparties behind than planes on Flightradar.

Play on YouTube

LAYER #429 | Times New Roman

Body Heat - Guest Mix #12 - Ali Renault

@bb_fm is a radio host at THF Radio and a versatile DJ who navigates a wide sonic spectrum with ease. As the curator and resident DJ of Aquatic Travellers, an electro-driven party that she co-runs with Black Mirror Park at Paloma, she crafts immersive sets that transport listeners from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of the galaxy. Her signature style blends electro and breaks to create a dreamy yet grounded atmosphere, with a constant sense of motion and narrative.

In terms of sound, she’s my Galaxister — deeply in love with electro that’s both spherical and gritty, always with a bassy touch. Her sets feel like space travel in slow motion: expansive, textured and comfortably otherworldly.


T R A C K L I S T 
Terre Thaemlitz - 040468
Plant43 - Frozen Monarch
Ed Chamberlain - Zarathustra
Stevie Cox - My Lover Cindy
not even noticed - Affected
S.H.  - Geröntgt
Abduction - Hours/Days
Berwick - Mind of A Squid
CH415 -  Nocturnal Mode
Radioactive Man - Uranium
M.S.L - Sundials