Back to our mix series with this wonderful offering from Marijana Croon.  Originally from Belgrade but now based in Cologne, Marijana is a molecular biologist as well as a vibrant member of her local scene. In normal times she can be found DJing in places like Salon des Amateurs and Acephale and hosting her radio show 'Deflections' on Retreat Radio. 

Her Phase Group mix fuses otherworldly sound designs with echoing percussion pieces and slow dark club music for the twilight hours, futuristic synthesised environments dripping with reverb and long echoes inducing trance states and transcendence. Thanks Marijana!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Marijana Croon

New addition in the mix series comes from Phase Group label head, Thomas.  This mix pulls from the post-punk, wave and industrial side of his tastes and features artists like Blak Saagan, Datblygu, Body Without Organs, Pre Fix, Kulku and SM Nurse as well as some forthcoming material that will be coming out soon on Phase Group. 

This mix was originally aired on Athens' Fade Radio for Petros Spatharos' Forget The Rules show.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - MR TC

BXP and Filibalou provide the next Phase Group mix from Bologna. Born in Sardinia, but now based in Bologna, Carlo Mameli, aka BXP heads up the excellent Random Numbers label. Through his own productions and curation of the label he explores the multiple possibilities in electronic music production, with a closer look at its IDM side, ranging from ambient to techno, electro, and acid. Filibalou is a vinyl collector and producer, influenced by the contemporary drifts of kraut, IDM and trance. He has produced releases on Glasgow's Invisible Inc label and runs the Mint Sound party series in Bologna.

This mix moves through the sounds of their contemplation on the return to communal dancing, reopening of clubs and shared music experience and was recorded by the two of them one evening in the company of friends. Thanks guys.

Phase Group Mix - BXP & Filibalou

The first Phase Group Mix of the year and the 23rd in our series is sent to us by Roma Nemov from Saint Petersburg, resident of the Изич club in his home city. 

His Phase Group Mix carries you through new-age minimalist percussion layered with Italian folk song, moving through dark tribal rhythms and idm, bass music and slow heavy trance landscapes. Thank Roma!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Roma Nemov

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

Phase Group continue their exploration of the fringes of contemporary electronic music with a release that brings together two separate projects born from analogue hardware improvisations. 

‘A Given Moment’ presents the dub-laden, mind-bending and noise-driven music of Brussels-based artist and Vastechoses label head Lostsoundbytes, and the lo-fi, early morning lysergic experiments of Lowspace, an unearthed, forgotten collaborative project by French DJ and musician Low Bat and Dresden-based producer Heninspace.

This is music that takes you deeper into the vortex, made for dark and smoke-enveloped clubs and cosmic day-break afterparty moments. On the A-side, Lostsoundbytes continues his prolific output of masterfully crafted bass-heavy and dub-wise analogue machine jams, while the B-side presents two lost psychotropic experimental recordings by Lowspace made in 2016 upon a visit by Low Bat to Heninspace’s Dresden studio.

Tracklisting: 
A1. Lostsoundbytes - In 1000 Years
A2. Lostsoundbytes - Fou De Croire
A3. Lostsoundbytes - Brain's Rewind 
B1. Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee
B2. Lowspace - Dance For The Underwear Hour

'A Given Moment' will be out on Phase Group in December 2022

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered in Glasgow by Murray Collier.
Professionally dubbed to cassette in Prague by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

Lostsoundbytes / Lowspace - A Given Moment (Preview)

The next instalment in the Phase Group Mix series is delivered by dear friend and contributing artist to the label, Low Bat. 

Low Bat lives amongst the black coal hills of northern France. When he isn’t marking textbooks and exposing Neue Deutsche Welle to the classrooms, the French DJ, musician and teacher keeps himself busy playing with his band Jean Luc, co-running the Yellow Light of Death festival and curating radio as 1/3 of the team behind Tblisi’s Mutant Radio. 

On top of this, he makes up 1/2 of Lowspace, the newest additions to Phase Group, who’s split tape with Lostsoundbytes will be coming out in December

His Phase Group Mix is a masterfully sequenced mad ride through post punk, psych rock, French trip hop, and proto trance. Thanks Louis!

Phase Group Mix - Low Bat

For the final Phase Group Mix of 2022 we invite Loma Doom from Amsterdam to the series. 

Loma Doom - real name Femke Dekker - lives in Amsterdam where she's a vital member of the music scene, a seasoned digger and radio host as well as a curator and educator of contemporary art. Her dedication to radio is quite amazing, holding residencies on Radio Tempo Nao Para, Echobox Radio and Stranded FM as well as Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radio station dedicated to art.

For her Phase Group Mix she has gifted us with an expertly composed deep listening experience. One hour of shamanic trance moving through dark droning soundscapes, tribal percussion and ancient voices chanting echoing incantations, recorded live at the Radio Tempo Nao Para studios in Amsterdam. Thanks Femke!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović.

Phase Group Mix - Loma Doom

The next release on Phase Group is a truly singular and original album from Rotterdam-based producer Ayaz.

With ‘Unpinned’ Ayaz presents a window into a uniquely crafted and highly personal sonic environment, where intercepted radio broadcasts tune in and out of focus, modulating drones echo through cavernous space and the sound of experimental synth explorations are layered over heady dub-laden beat work, deep bass lines and expertly programmed traditional sampled artefacts from the music of his native Azerbaijan. 

This is an uncanny and evocative sound universe both cinematic and driving, music that would work equally scoring science fiction cinema as in the most avant-garde club environments. Mind-bending and visionary music for those that explore.

Unpinned is released on vinyl (edition of 300) and digitally in March 2023 on Phase Group Records. Distributed by Rubadub.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

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Ayaz - Unpinned (Preview)

The Phase Group Mix continues with Vienna-based DJ and record collector Andrea Ida, a mainstay on all of your favourite radio platforms who you'll find playing records around Europe regularly.

Her mix takes us through forlorn practice-room jams, German new age, and some wonderful weighted and dreamy drum machine sessions, all blending together outside of history for our pleasure.

Phase Group Mix - Andrea Ida

The Phase Group Mix continues:

 «Self-» a story by Prince of Gosplan

This story is an attempt to live through the personal experiences and events that have accompanied me for the past year and a half. Inside, I collected the sacred music that I listened to in moments of greatest sorrow and greatest joy! These are healing songs with which I feel a personal connection and which I associate with a sense of home and inner safety.

www.youtube.com/@PrinceofGosplan

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Prince of Gosplan

Kulku return to Phase Group with the release of their new album 'Reset To Be'

Formed in Berlin at the turn of the millennium, Kulku have evolved as a highly unique and free-formed collective of musicians that make trance-inducing, jazz-entwined, percussive and soulful (mostly) acoustic music that takes cues from the rhythmic propulsion of Jaki Leibezeit’s Can, the street-folk of Moondog, the minimalism of Steve Reich, and the droning rock n’ roll of the Velvet Underground, forming a sound that they themselves have coined ‘No-Age Krautrock’. 

Following on from last year’s sold out debut LP ‘Fahren', 'Reset To Be’ offers 5 new songs across 2 sides of vinyl. This is a record that perfectly showcases the unique identity the band have been developing over the past 20 years, a sound crafted through experimentation and innovation with primarily acoustic instruments; droning harmoniums, repetitive and phasing xylophones, timpani, cello, scrap metal and woodwind reeds, all sitting alongside soulful saxophone and the voice of frontman Andreas Riska, singing in both German and English. 

‘Reset To Be’ is a truly special offering that we’re proud to be able to share with you on Phase Group, and the album will be available at the beginning of 2024 on vinyl and digital, with distribution via Rubadub. 

Pre-order will be available tomorrow at the Phase group Bandcamp page to coincide with Kulku’s homecoming concert of their Reset to Be Tour at Urban Spree on the 29th of October.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Kulku - Reset To Be (Preview)

The first Phase Group Mix of 2024 comes courtesy of London-based DJ, Sallad Egg, who takes us on a journey from mystical synth worlds and fourth-world delicacies to post-punk musings and Turkish psych, and lots in-between.

Sally can be found DJing across London and beyond, and is never one to be missed.

Phase Group Mix - Sallad Egg

Yssue takes up the reigns on the next Phase Group Mix.   

A dear friend of the label and a talented producer and DJ, Dima is part of the Esthetic Joys collective that were behind some of the most compelling underground parties in Moscow. Now a resident in Paris after some time living in Armenia, Yssue continues to create his own brand of evocative left field electronic music, the likes of which has been released to great effect on labels such as Paris' Global Warming Records, Belgrade’s YES, Lyon’s Kump and Edinburgh label Sounds of Ogigia.   

His mix for us is a heads-down psychic journey across genres from haunting spoken word through dubbed out post punk, brooding hip hop  and psychedelic downtempo electronics,  all the while with multilingual voices echoing to us from beyond. 

Thanks Dima!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Yssue

Don De Lenguas (or the gift of tongues) is the supernatural ability that allows someone to speak languages ​​they do not know, fluently vocalizing syllables similar to speech, and which is related to states of delirium, trance, enchantment, rapture and mystery - all of which can be found in the latest edition of the Phase Group Mix, provided to us by Malu. 

Malu is a DJ and yoga instructor from Spain, currently based in Berlin and known for her versatile selection at parties around the city and excellent radio show Don De Lenguas on Radio Relativa. She will be joining us at the release party for Kulku's new album 'Reset To Be' at the Berghain Kantine on the 30th of April!

Phase Group Mix - Malu

The latest Phase Group mix is delivered by T.V.S.T.   

T.V.S.T. lives in Berlin where he keeps himself busy presiding over the excellent Kashual Plastik label, booking for one of Berlin’s havens for outsider, experimental and electronic music, Arkaoda and making music in outfits such as Inkasso, primitive structures, Edition D'Art and Crude Fact.   

His Phase Group mix takes us on a moonlit walk marked by voices and emotions. From lo-fi DIY tape songs through outsider folk and smoky melancholic psychedelia via lurching and whirring percussion and industrial experiments. This one will pull on the heartstrings and excite the mind.  

Thanks Frank!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - T.V.S.T.

Today Phase Group are thrilled to present our next release by newcomers to the label, the excellent Hamburg band, Love-Songs. Their new album 'Passive Progressive' will be out on cassette and digital on October 18th.

Love-Songs are the trio consisting of Thomas Korf (electronics + vocals) Sebastian Kokus (Bass) and Manuel Chitka (Percussion) who make cosmic, kraut-inspired electro-acoustic music. Many will be familiar with their previous output on wonderful labels like Kame House and Bureau B.

'Passive Progressive' lands in the form of 8 enthralling tracks that take us through dreamlike and psychedelic echoing territories, where Korf’s modulating electronics and effected vocals ripple over the grooving rhythm section of percussion and bass supplied by Kokus and Chitka. Across the album, the band are joined by a host of guest musicians and friends from Berlin and Hamburg’s underground and experimental music scenes, supplying Trombone, Mbira, Clarinet, Flute and extra synthesisers and vocals to enhance the mind-expanding and unique sound palette of these incredible tracks.

As with most of the material we’ve released on Phase Group, this is music that’s hard to pin down, that lends itself equally well to creating transcending atmospheres in the early moments of a special kind of club set as to soundtracking a mind-bending and deep personal listening experience. We’ve no doubt that the sound that Love-Songs have crafted with Passive Progressive will be enthusiastically received by all sonic voyagers and fans of the label, and we’re over the moon to welcome them to the Phase Group family.

Passive Progressive is available on limited cassette, with double-sided risograph print artwork by Andrija Čugurović. 

Preorder is available now from our Bandcamp.

Passive Progressive

Love-Songs - Passive Progressive (Preview)

The next edition of the Phase Group mix series is delivered by Hing. 

Hing lives in Zurich where he’s a vital member of the music community. As part of the collective behind the downtown underground venue and cultural association Zentralwäscherei, he can regularly be found curating excellent line-ups and DJing at various parties. Big tip - check out his domestic mind-wandering show on Callshop Radio. 

His Phase Group mix is an excellently sequenced and compelling glide through leftfield downtempo groovers, motorik psych rides, DIY cassette recordings and cosmic new-age atmospheres. Turn on tune in and drop out. Thanks Hiep!

Phase Group Mix - Hing

Next up in the series is a mix from Brussels-based DJ and label-head Rick Shiver, someone who’s been around bringing some of the finest sounds to our ears for many years through his label Nose Job and his always-reliable mixes, with a residency on LYL Radio with his show Niemandsland, and regular appearances on BXL’s excellent Kiosk Radio.

His mix takes us on a journey of his usual dubwise downtempo, scattered rhythms and heavyweight, heady slow-club moods, always with a Shiver touch, dubby and fun. Plug-in for a little over an hour of some of the nicest gear you’ll hear all day.

Many thanks, Mr Shiver!


Phase Group Mix - Rick Shiver

The latest entry to the Phase Group Mix comes to us from West Yorkshire in the form of a psychedelic journey  courtesy of Leeds' Narr Radio founder and Space Ritual boss Slacky. 

Slacky is a key player in the Leeds underground music scene, sharing excellent sounds by the likes of Zmatsutsi, Kalidasa, Konsistent, Andy Rantzen, Tross and Eva Geist & Chikiss amongst others through his label Space Ritual as well as seeing over the programming of community hub and online radio station Narr Radio. 

His Phase Group Mix takes us through the kind of psychedelic territory that he has mastered through  regular sets at some of  Northern England's finest spots for underground electronic music such as the Golden Lion in Todmorden, Outlaws Yacht Club and Club Cosmos in Leeds and places like Soup and The Peer Hat in Manchester. Tribal percussions blend with new-age synth atmospheres, droning fuzz guitars and shimmering space echoes. Thanks Calum!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Slacky

For their first release of 2025, Phase Group return to where they started with new music by label founders MR TC and Lo Kindre, under the moniker of TC LK. Their self-titled debut album marks the first collaborative recordings by the pair to see daylight since the release of the PHASE001 EP in 2019.

Their new album sees the pair reaching for darker and heavier territory, where modulation and delay enact mind-bending effect on warped bass lines, dubbed out breaks and mangled samples.

Album opener ‘Godmanchester’ ominously sets the tone with a distorted acid line floating over stuttering ambient pads as a drum machine struggles to find its way through a gnarled signal chain; the album’s centrepiece comes in the form of a nine-minute-plus epic, ‘TLPTK’, in which a stark dancehall rhythm is paired with a modulating bass drone and otherworldly oscillating arps, while tracks like ‘Aro’ and ‘Bouncy’ present the most club-engaged moments of the record; the former in the form of a glacial electro rhythm, subtly locking into a groove, and the latter through throbbing bass and echoed breakbeats shimmering over spectral drones.

With this new album TC LK offer up a deft manifesto for futuristic, hypnotic sound design that sits somewhere between the club, the afters and somewhere else completely.

TC LK is released in the form of a digital album alongside a very limited amount of 10” dubplates featuring ‘TLPTK’, ‘Aro’ and ‘Bouncy’, hand-cut by Henninspace at Copyshop Studio in Dresden, available exclusively via Bandcamp.

Phase Group will celebrate the release of PHASE008 with a TC LK live show alongside DJ peanut and Rick Shiver at Spanners in London on the 28th of March.

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork designed by Andrija Čugurović 

https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/tc-lk

TC LK - TC LK (Preview)

The Phase Group Mix continues with an entry by close friend of the label and our guest at the TC LK launch this weekend at Spanners, Scottish selector DJ Peanut. 

London-based DJ Peanut is known for her mastery of dark and psychedelic downtempo sounds as well as bass-heavy, dub-wise club fair. She can regularly be found playing in some of the capital's finest musical establishments including Ormside Projects, Spanners, Kindred and The Gun as well as regular trips back north to play in venues like La Cheetah, Berkeley Suite and Exit in Glasgow and residencies on Clyde Built Radio and Noods. Katie has been invited to join multiple Phase Group line ups in the past, either solo or playing back to back with her regular spar partner Lo Kindre, which shows the appreciation we have for her skills behind the decks.  

Her Phase Group Mix delivers exactly the kind of heads-down listening journey through dubbed out, bass-and-noise-driven downtempo club sounds that we love. A great warm up listen ahead of her set at Spanners this Friday. 

Peanut joins Brussels-based selector Rick Shiver and TC LK this Friday at Spanners to celebrate the release of PHASE008, the new album by TC LK on Phase Group.

Phase Group Mix - DJ Peanut

A special limited-run lathe cut 7” for you here, featuring the solo material of Kulku's compelling frontman, Wenzlovar.

With 'You Declared the War/She's Born', Andreas Riska shares material recorded at his home studio in Berlin during down time from the intriguing No-Age collective's activities. Listeners familiar with Kulku's work will hear the parallels, albeit in a more personal sphere this time around. 

On 'You Declared the War', Wenzlovar laments the greed and destruction of war amongst rolling bass, drum rhythms and bluesy guitar work, with the track rising to an intense crescendo of vocal cries and sirens.

Meanwhile, on 'She's Born', guitar and cello sit calmly over organ drum patterns as Wenzlovar recounts a surrealist tale, sounding something like Loaded-era Velvets flirting with the lap-steel, completing a perfectly balanced 7" single of Wenzlovar's inside world.

Lathe cut 7” available in an edition of 50, with a printed, double-sided insert.

Music recorded and mixed by Wenzlovar
Mastering by Giussepe Ielasi
Artwork designed by Andrija Čugurović
Lathe cut by Lathe to the Grave
Printing by Calverts

Releases 18th of April, with advance copies available at all UK tour Kulku shows.

Wenzlovar - You Declared the War/She's Born (Preview)

“It’s not easy to transform a jam into a proper tune that haunts forever. The two Glaswegian friends MR TC and Lo Kindre are in possession of that special skill that can transform spontaneous tuned-in music into something significant without losing the gut feeling along the way.

As solo artists they have released on labels like Optimo Music, 12th Isle and Against Fascism Trax, and together released 'The Storm EP' in late 2018 on Vienna's Neubau. Now they continue their collaborative work on PHASE001 – an EP that also marks the launch of their own label that listens to the same name. The start-up brings four analogue tracks that courageously link cold waving synth-shocks, neon-light nonchalance and haunted spoken words; deep hypnotic musical witchcraft that peels itself out of the history of dark electronic music with a pulsating and haunting atmosphere.” 

- Words by ML

released late August 2019 

Recorded and mixed in Glasgow by MR TC & Lo Kindre 
Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered by Curved Press 
Vinyl Distributed by Rubadub

PHASE001

MR TC & Lo Kindre - PHASE001 (Preview)

Misonica sent us an hour of far out and trippy club music, ranging from dark tribal sounds to slow trance excursions. 

In her hometown of Vienna, Misonica is an extremely active member of the local scene. She was part of the team behind the Femdex, mix series, workshop and event platform that worked to highlight female identifying DJs and producers. They recently put the project (for the time being) on hold but she can still be found pushing the Vienna scene through the NNNN party series that she runs alongside Bocksrucker, Paul Uhlmann and Samo Zeichen.

Phase Group Mix - Misonica

@claudia_fv lives in Prague where she is a DJ and key member of the Czech scene with a taste for unorthodox sounds. She is also the mind behind the expertly curated @deviant-planet podcast series and parties that take place at Ankali  and recently launched a new sister space to Ankali for dancing to more experimental sounds, Planeta Za.

Her mix for Phase Group takes us from dark ambient and spoken word recordings through tribal percussion rides before breaking into dark slow electro and techno work outs. Thanks Claudia!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Claudia

The mysterious DJ Caapi supplies the latest Phase Group Mix. Field recordings blend with blissful ambience, spoken-word and percussive Fourth-world oddities as he takes us on a journey through unknown terrain.

It’s a pleasure to have the Glasgow-based artist and DJ join the mix series and we hope you enjoy this trip crafted by one of Glasgow’s finest as much as we did!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Caapi

A new Phase group Mix from Moscow made for us by Región Salvaje, a revived alias of Russian experimental sound enthusiast Dima Gerasimov aka Jan Fietser.  

Dima is the guy behind the excellent 'Muzak for Cycling' radio show on St Petersburg's Test FM. He has also released music on Towlie's Käften label under the Jan Fietser moniker. Following a recent move from St Pete to Moscow, Dima is focusing his energies these days on recording new music with his band Argonauts. 

This mix was recorded in March on the first day of Lockdowns in Russia, when Dima decided to spend his time digitising the tapes and vinyls from the most unpredictable purchases that he had made in the last few year. What results is an hour of charming and intriguing cassette-world oddities, DIY home recordings and lo-fi Groovebox experiments. Thanks Dima! 

@argonaut_s

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Región Salvaje

The first Phase Group Mix of 2021 comes to us from Frank D'Arpino, a local of Dusseldorf and resident of the Salon Des Amateurs known for his brilliant radio shows on Dublab.de. Frank has been playing music for people since the early 90s, with an open minded approach that finds harmony and evolution in mixing differing types and speeds of music together, advocating for "belief in unconventional music on the dancefloor". For us he's put together a mind-melting hour of low velocity, space age, tribal electronics and industrial level trip hop. Thanks Frank! 

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

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Phase Group Mix - Frank D'Arpino

Hipushit lives in Moscow where he's known for his versatile, futuristic and broadminded sets that could take a turn in any direction at any moment. Here is a unique type of DJ and music fan, the kind that is as comfortable playing modern bass and trap as he is playing legacy of acid and ebm. He is a resident of Mutabor and member of the celebrated Arma17 crew that have been a huge presence in Moscow's nightlife landscape since 2008. 

For the next Phase Group Mix he presents us with an hour of absorbing music, shifting in tempo and styles, filled with digitally manipulated voices echoing in different languages across futuristic trap beats, industrial rhythms and synthesized percussion. Thanks Igor!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Hipushit

Home for unique electronic and outsider music. 

PHASE009 - 'You Declared The War/She's Born' by Wenzlovar out now:
https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/you-declared-the-war-shes-born

Contact: phasegroupmusic(at)gmail(dot)com

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