Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English)
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.

Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.

An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine
Photography by Rana Ghose
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima's Poplar

lol 2020 first time editing a track. be nice.

Writhe In Solitutde-  Ben Bondy +Pontiac Streator (Ophelia's Deep Reversed Edit)

MIX for DEARDOGS 

bimestral on LYL radio
https://lyl.live/episode/deardogs-4
https://deardogs.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:
EVOL - punani rubberist
TOSHI TSUCHITORI - unebi
MARIACHI (NINA GARCIA) - fu/mi
RYU HANKIL - ⑥_catalysis_6
MINORU SATO & AMI YOSHIDA - 1997
ANNE GILLIS - rymoborus
LUCIANO MAGGIORE & LOUIE RICE - phone work
PETER ABLINGER - against nature (2020) many a
PETER ABLINGER - against nature (2020) drawing 2 (narrow)
JOHN WALL - stünde null (i)
JUNKO - full void
KIERAN DALY - twmvcseq - 2opfm
TAKAHIRO KAWAGUCHI - 116 water drops per minute
SAM RIDOUT - aspect
COSMOS (AMI YOSHIDA & SACHIKO M) - tears 3
FELIX HESS - 21-10-78, about 11.45 pm, brachina creek, finders ranges, south australia
MILFORD GRAVES - nothing 13
ROBERTA SETTELS - p1 - information
TOSHIYA TSUNODA & TAKU UNAMI - jinmu-ji temple, evening cicadas - playback speed at 1/3 + strange sound 2012 co. armagh n.ireland

Mix for Deardogs (LYL Radio) 12.12.23

Erosion

Evitceles - Erosion

Evitceles - Transparent Abstinence

Celebrating 5 years of Eastern Nurseries.

A communal release comprising 14 pieces of modern electronic music, “Diving Headfirst Into The Sun" marks yet another entry in an ever-growing series of Eastern Nurseries compilations, bringing together new and familiar faces to the label's roster.

Doesn't it amaze you, the way our paths crossed?

Mastered by Owen Pratt
Artwork by Tristán Alcover

Diving Headfirst Into The Sun

Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - (Song) Of A Calling Deer

Based in Texas, USA, Field Designer of Language Instinct features the liminal space between composure and harshness, like the clash of force. Capturing the contrast of brittle elements shifting with the raw, unpredictable nature of distortion - both expansive and constrained at once.

Amulet of Tears 055: Field Designer

Music: Field Designer

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 055: Field Designer

recorded at mansions 12/21/2024 nyc 
deeeeeeeeeeeep

shed-intro
cv313-stained glass (variant etherscope)
deepchord presents echospace-warm
chuck roberts-my house
oli xl-DnL
meitei-sankai
björk-batabid
shed-the traveller
arca-extent
x3butterfly-inert nature
estro-monachopsis:emergence
dani vegas-serial int
meitei-sazanami
echospace-untitled 02
meitei-shoji
basic channel-q1.2
william basinski-el camino real
oli xl-sniper baby
arca-immortal
john tejada-maximiliano (6 july 1832-19 june 1867)
theo parrish-music
substance-scent
daniela la luz-read my mind
dick dickler-the bar
cassy-la lune
head high-power seat
kenlou-gimme groove
pepe bradock-deep burnt
shanti celeste-nu4him
moodymann-wednesday night people
paul johnson-get get down (sounds of life cariola mix)
n’dambi-call me (yam who rework)

garden sounds freestyle

ESTATE is the debut AKHET Edizioni issue: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in AKHET’s first year of site-specific programming in Naples historic centre.

The 26-track compilation features Aspec(t), Ausschuss, Cadaver Mike, Canedicoda, CECILIA, Ciro Vitiello, Compsa, D.Ham, Deskulling, Eks, Elisha Morningstar, Elvin Brandhi, Eraclio, Flora Yin-Wong, Forest Factory, Franco Franco, I Jahbar, Koenraad Ecker, las vegan, Le grand K, Lorenzo Abattoir, Luigi Monteanni, MIIIN---AMOR, Nocturnerror, NPLGNN, NZIRIA, Radford Electronics, Rabit, Renato Grieco, Sara Persico, STILL, Talpah, Tarawangsawelas, Tati au Miel, and Yokel, serving as a convergence of dissonant practices and collective gestures. Traversing the volatile terrains of noise, improvised sound, avant-garde folk, experimental rap, and post-club mutations, each piece embodies the tension between transient environments and enduring creative dialogues.

ESTATE, the Italian word for “summer”, concludes AKHET’s first cycle of programming. This cycle, reflecting on the impermanence of seasons, unfolded through three mini-festivals ("Autunno", "Inverno" and "Primavera") and a traveling review ("Caldo Astratto"). In a time when seasons melt into one another and winter feels disturbingly melded, ESTATE serves as a temporal marker, reimagined here amidst shifting climatic and cultural cycles.

Conceived as both artifact and reusable ephemeral, the release materializes as a limited edition of 101 tin cans designed by Canedicoda, each containing a USB microchip and other delicacies, while photographs by Salvatore Pastore document its materiality. The digital artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua extends this material dimension into a visual language that resonates with the conceptual and aesthetic framework of the release.

Curated by AKHET.

Mastered by Heba Kadry (Track 1) and Guido Marziale (Tracks 2 to 26).
Design by Canedicoda.
Photography by Salvatore Pastore.
Artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua.

Cat. No. AKHT001
© AKHET Edizioni 2025

Sara Persico & Koenraad Ecker - Saywhereyouwantit

~ Join the hypnotic exploration of the intersection of machine and body through the obscure, timelessness sounds, that makes you feel imminently breakable ~

Machine Healing w. biju invites uszko [29.01.25]

A product of runoff.

A molten sound in the alluvial scrub. Years behind the causal stream of things, boulder tumbled into aggregate, molded to silo. 

Idling off-road in the watershed. Loving this valley’s gradient, of night’s slow turn to day, the cascade of someone else’s season into ours. What a little water can pour life into, making music out of this arid basin. 

+

written & composed by Dylan Karlsson
additional production by Blazlo on “Clubskimmers”
vocals by Otracami on “Sprawl”

mastered by shy @specialguest-dj

artwork by Sai Tripathi & Stevie Choi
kite construction by Stevie Choi 


Sferic

The 2nd Polymorphism serie starts here! with a new concept, style and focus!

This time the Belgian producer and DJ Ethan Fawkes returns with Funky Raver, a vibrant six-track vinyl release that channels the spirit of 70s funk and disco through a modern electronic lens. The EP will be available from January 12, 2026 on limited edition 12" vinyl (100 copies, just 50 available in Bandcamp) + digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : polymorphism.bandcamp.com/album/funky-raver

Ethan Fawkes - Get The Groove

Digital files are provided free of charge on: https://www.polymorphismrecords.com

With every sale we will donate 1€ to Teamtrees (https://teamtrees.org/) and The Ocean Cleanup (https://theoceancleanup.com/) + 20% of the earnings of the digital streams.

Recordings:

- 2nd Serie

PM005
originals: Ethan Fawkes
remixes: ?????

- 1st Serie

PM004:
originals: Vanity Productions
remixes: Ireen Amnes & Farzané

PM003:
originals: Sestrica
remixes: Konx-om-pax & Antwood

PM002:
originals: Antechamber
remixes: Lemna & Lakker

PM001
originals: Alcarcia
remixes: Hector-mad, Solarmental, Neri J & JLTZ

.2019

Ethan Fawkes - Get The Groove

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