Our first mix of 2023 has enough raw power to push a steamboat up a mountain. It's bracing, cold, and ultimately tender. Big love to Sam Clarke, a Brooklyn-based artist working within photography, design, music, and event curation. He is the co-founder of Dust Radio and the now-defunct rave series Nausea. 

“In thinking about the myth of the Capricorn, I playfully imagined myself to be a roughly bearded goat, scaling a massive and precarious mountain with icy wind scorching my face and reaching the peak above the clouds to finally see the sublime curvature of the earth.”

For full tracklist, please visit: https://sharptype.co/news/sharp-fm-003-sm-capricorn/ where you can read more about Sam, this mix, and our 2023 plans for Sharp FM. Thanks for listening.

003: Sam Clarke

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

buy / stream

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)

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

“An Eternity Still” delves into the theme of closure, capturing the emotional journey of closing one chapter and beginning another. It evokes a stirring blend of nostalgia and the need to move forward, balancing bright memories with the desire for growth and new challenges. Of leaving baggage behind to fill the suitcase anew, killing the darlings to find new loved ones, burn down the house and never look back. Because as everybody knows; warm memories linger—for an eternity still.

For this project, Vanity Productions' Christian Stadsgaard teamed up with close collaborators Emma Acs and Malthe Fischer, who joined in the compositional process. While the album maintains Stadsgaard’s signature melancholia, it also introduces a fresh sonic palette, incorporating vocals and guitar alongside the project’s hallmark broken electronics and dark, evocative melodies.

“An Eternity Still” also features remixes by acclaimed artists Farzané and Ireen Amnes, further enriching the album’s collaborative spirit and adding new dimensions to its haunting soundscapes.

Release date: 14th of February, 2025 Format: LP and DL

An Eternity Still

Vanishing Point

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

Voices Organ

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. 

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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

London · Madrid / 2019

Digital files are provided free of charge on: 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:
PM001
originals:
Alcarcia,
remixes:
Hector-mad, Solarmental, Neri J & JLTZ

PM002:
originals:
Antechamber
remixes:
Lemna & Lakker

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

PM004:
originals: Vanity Productions (Christian Stadsgaard, Emma Acs & Malthe Fischer)
remixes: Ireen Amnes & Farzané

Distributed by @melting-pot-records & @cargorecords

Vanishing Point

Polymorphism Records