the rhythm and field recordings work so well together

“Dead eyes” are what you see when the spark of presence is gone, when the gaze becomes flat and unfeeling. They don’t track the world with curiosity, don’t soften with warmth, don’t betray the smallest flicker of life behind them. Instead, they look vacant, as if the person is only half-there—or not there at all.

Psychologists might call it dissociation, emotional numbness, or the drained look of depression. Trauma can hollow the eyes until they no longer shine, leaving only a glassy stare. Burnout, exhaustion, even despair can strip away the subtle movements we instinctively expect, making the gaze uncanny in its stillness.

What unsettles us is that eyes are supposed to reveal the soul. When they go lifeless, it feels as if something essential has slipped away. The body is alive, but the windows look out onto nothing. And that nothing stares back.


Artist: KEX0
Album Title: DEAD EYES
Label: OVERDOSE
Catalog: ODEP005
Format: Digital
Release Date: 09/05/2025
Mastering:KEX0
ARTWORK:KEX0

DEAD EYES INTRO

Listen to "Nimbal Lemon Particle" by WTVR & 451F taken from "Interferences" out on September 15th via Yanked Beats

Pre-order: https://yankedbeatsrec.bandcamp.com/album/interferences

Welcome to the underground of the Portuguese underground. Not necessarily the oldest members, but at least among the most active and the most honest, because WTVR and 451F are the kind of artists who are involved, not to say committed, in their artistic approach and in all their cultural activism. Whether it's a career as a “pyromaniac” visual artist or one made up of encounters and accidents, these two producers certainly share a desire to defy the boundaries between genres, both thirsting for sonic experimentation.

So, is it still footwork? Is it still jungle? Or halftime? Or breakcore? Not really... and a bit of all that at the same time. And that's what makes this production so interesting. So, let's experiment!

Links:
WTVR
https://soundcloud.com/wtvr-vtw
451F
https://soundcloud.com/goncaloincendiario
Yanked Beats
https://soundcloud.com/yankedbeats
https://yankedbeatsrec.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/yanked_beats

Interferences

pre-order / bandcamp

WTVR & 451F - Nimbal Lemon Particle (Yanked Beats)

modular vox process oceans 12, lxr super nova 2 tracker mini
xair mix,
vicie studio 2025
ozone master

waspburgh - nemisis

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宇宙飛行士002

Track from:
Simon Whetham "Forced to Repeat Myself" CD

“When performing with a limited set of resources, through choices in materials to work with and the constraints of being nomadic, there can be a tendency to repeat actions and scenes that 'work', even when improvising and having to respond to each new situation in a unique way.”

One characteristic aspect of the touring experience that is not discussed often enough is the dilemma of repetition. Not repetition as a mechanism of the work itself, but as a tedious consequence of being obligated to perform night after night in quick succession. Generating a completely unique performance for each stop, even with the assistance of improvisation,  is a laborious undertaking that consumes too much time and sanity, while adhering to a rigid set of rules leaves one open to both burnout and diminishing returns. Is there a way to split the difference so that both performer and audience are always engaged to the highest standard?

“I set these constraints on myself. The need to produce something (at least a little) different in each event of a tour was fierce, especially when traveling with other musicians.”

Explicitly within the title itself of his latest CD, Forced To Repeat Myself, UK sound artist and composer Simon Whetham tackles these questions with both a sly wit and sincere inquisitiveness. The tracks, all collected from recordings documenting a 2018 tour, utilize analogous source material and means of execution.  Whetham paid particular attention to the contour and character of each venue when deciding how to best put the pieces together, offering a customization that subverts pure deja vu for a sharp observance of the unfamiliar.

“In each situation objects and materials unique to the space were incorporated into the performance setup and structure, generating sounds or resonating with them. And yet I could hear similar scenes, movements, even spaces. This repetition determined the dynamic of the composition, working with it and against it.”

By the very nature of their disseminating sparseness, the tracks of Forced To Repeat Myself demand from the listener an attentiveness fixed on nuance and variation. The amplified cracks and static of ethereal currents and anonymous electronics infer the works of others who’ve made it their mission to attune our attention toward sounds outside our natural perception, including Christina Kubisch’s electrical walks, Toshimaru Nakamura’s no-input mixer excursions, and Jason Zeh’s experiments with blank tapes and the mechanizations of his cassette players. Whetham’s shaping of the album’s source material to highlight certain exclusivities of each live performance emphasizes how the inherent dynamics of time and chance guide his self-imposed constraints into pathbreaking spectrums. 

“The title references a phrase many of us will have heard in our formative years, ’Why do you force me to repeat myself?’ I have no answer to this question. I never forced anyone to do anything. But with this work, I did.”

One inherent paradox of Forced To Repeat Myself is that each listen naturally manifests a distinct, individual experience. The way sounds are received and processed in one instance to the next each forget their own entryway into transcribing meaning from this abstraction. And Whetham is keenly aware of this as the sounds of Forced To Repeat Myself find consistent, unique ways to perpetuate themselves, ensuring any repetition to be delicately understated.

Forced to Repeat Myself

Forced to repeat Myself

Simon Whetham "08-11"

Raft of Trash is a generative music project exploring the sounds of systems using the natural rhythms of environmental dialogue in the world-building game SimCity 3000. It is a collaboration between sound artists/musicians Andrew PM Hunt (aka Dialect) and JC Leisure, and designer Thom Isom.  

Like the group’s early EPs, their debut album Likeness on the Edge of Town showcases the breadth of possibilities emerging from their unique process. Whilst playing SimCity 3000, the in-built sound effects of the game are converted and repurposed into MIDI data which is then fed to Hunt and Leisure's synths and samplers in real time. The resulting soundscape, imprinted with the dynamics of a simulated environment, is then augmented with live guitar, spoken word and field recordings to create an uncanny collage of wild synthesis, experimental narrative and bending, viscous guitar.  

Inspired by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, the spoken word passages sprinkled across the record act as part travel journal, part system theory field guide as “someone guiding you through the simulated desert landscape, and through some kind of inner journey”. Exploring for instance the connections between the irregularities we discover in our functioning bodies and the impact of environmental influences or describing the fullness of the reality of stopping at a truck stop, these passages are an illuminating exploration of the complexity of living systems and real-life situations. Subtle musical references to Americana and sounds sourced from the desert around Joshua Tree contribute to a journey-like mood throughout the record. 

Musically, the record remains in largely abstract territory. Synths sprawl, crawl and fly above a sonic bed of creaks, ripples and bleeps; nothing is at it seems. This ambiguous relationship between the organic and the synthetic further highlights the themes explored by the group.  

Releasing in full on November 20 2020, as a limited edition poster and as digital files. 

Purchase on Bandcamp: https://raftoftrash.bandcamp.com/album/likeness-on-the-edge-of-town

Raft of Trash - Sans Sherif at the Painted Oasis

Yolabmi - Breathe (excerpt)

morphaqin #1

"Waking up to the ever-flowing, ever-expanding limitlessness of time. An unexpected feeling of obliteration, intricate greatness and introspective madness. Promised lands of the post-internet age turn into a barren, yet artificial landscape. Silver linings are these Ordinary Days."
- a.

Tokyo-based @yolabmi delivers a fulminant debut on Prepaid Records encapsulating modular ideas in sound design on tape.

BUY --> tinyurl.com/1d5zd205


Releases February 17, 2021

Dubbing: Pattern//Select Recordings
Mix: Yolabmi
Master: Yolabmi
Artwork: Yolabmi / ahabzutun
Prepaid Records 2021 | Leipzig | Germany

PREview || PRE004 Yolabmi - Ordinary Days || 05 - recfeel

Xïola Yin is the opposite yet not contradicting side of Aloïs Yang. This project focuses on deconstruction of existing works and recordings, random access and blending memories. Exploring the unstable and unpredictable outcomes of digital environment, through bespoke software instrument and live improvisation.

https://www.dinzuartefacts.com/
https://dinzuartefacts.bandcamp.com/album/self-contained-illusion-the-peak
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/051-suzanne-ciani
https://aloisyang.com/Xiola-Yin

Duplicated Madness from "Xïola Yin - Self-Contained Illusion (The Peak)" (Dinzu Artefact, 2021)

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Record label & mixtape imprint run by Leipzig-based producer @ahabzutun
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RELEASES:
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PRE001 || Yosuke Tokunaga - 7 Patterns
https://tinyurl.com/yc47r7cs
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PRE002 || Thomas & Wolfgang - Spectres Of A World That Could Be
https://tinyurl.com/ydf8x6z4
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PRE003 || Munzard - Blurred Artifacts
https://tinyurl.com/y3llyq4s
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PRE004 || Yolabmi - Ordinary Days
https://tinyurl.com/1d5zd205
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PRE005 || ahabzutun - Schlaf01
tinyurl.com/2p83zmb6
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PRE006 || Drojji - Lichna Nega
https://tinyurl.com/2bbs3xt9
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PRE007 || SLURGE & Eleni Poulou
https://tinyurl.com/prepaidrecords
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PRE008 || Kinked - Plastico Empire
https://tinyurl.com/pre008bc

PREPAID RADIO MIXTAPES:
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PPR01 DJ-Set | Kupka & crssspace
PPR02 DJ-Set | Maximilian Glass
PPR03
PPR04
PPR05
PPR06
PPR07
PPR08
PPR09
PPR10
PPR11
PPR12 DJ-Set | Desert Prophets
PPR13 Live-Set | ahabzutun & Yosuke Tokunaga
PPR14 DJ-Set | Hunny & Bunny
PPR15 Live-Set | Giant Sweaters & Lebensraum Totholz
PPR16 DJ-Set | Zygoot
PPR17 DJ-Set | Valeska
PPR18 DJ-Set | Viper Balance
PPR19 DJ-Set | Rhua
PPR20 DJ-Set | ahabzutun
PPR21 DJ-Set | Walt Forest
PPR22 DJ-Set | Global Warming
PPR23 DJ-Set | Restcharakter
PPR24 DJ-Set | Rainer Widmann
PPR25 DJ-Set/Live-Set | Alto Bloom
PPR26 DJ-Set | Tali
PPR27 DJ-Set | Sui
PPR28 DJ-Set | Judith Crasser
PPR29 DJ-Set | Marie
PPR30 DJ-Set | Heronymuz
PPR31 DJ-Set | Philipp Matalla
PPR32 DJ-Set | Lena Lvte & Staxl
PPR33 DJ-Set | Bhed
PPR34 TJ-Set | Multimedia Schneider
PPR35 DJ-Set | Shape
PPR36 DJ-Set | Alexandro Bradinho
PPR37 Special edition DJ-Set | Valeska
PPR38 DJ-Set | Alice in Flames
PPR39 Live-Set | Bocu
PPR40 Live-Set | Adaa
PPR41 DJ-Set | Botho Cochois
PPR42 DJ-Set | Tim Rosenbaum
PPR43 Live-Set | ah_mult
PPR44 Live-Set | Eau
PPR45 DJ-Set | Miss Take
PPR46 DJ-Set | Unbekannt Verzogen
PPR47 Live-Set | Fatigue Suspecte
PPR48 Live-Set | The Hallways
PPR49 DJ-Set | Shane Lizard
PPR50 Live-Set | Rundfunkorchestra
PPR51 Live-Set | Eyal Talmor
PPR52 Live-Set | Nadelor
PPR53 Live-Set | Schleife
PPR54 DJ-Set | Depp Blatter
PPR55 Live-Set | Usof
PPR56 DJ-Set | Dilian
PPR57 Live-Set | Some Pepper
PPR58 Live-Set | Chloé Malaise
PPR59 DJ-Set | DJ Badshape
PPR60 Live-Set | Accou & Nuances d'engrais
PPR61 Live-Set | Die Wende
PPR62 Live-Set | Meeek & Gregor Pfeffer
PPR63 Special edition DJ-Set w. Risoclub | DJ Scout 24 & City V.I.P.
PPR64 Live-Set | Kinked
PPR65 Live-Set | Wirklich Pipit & Todesangst Ausstehen
PPR66 Live-Set | Jordan White & Philipp Martin


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FUTURE:


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PAST:
30/08/2025 ahabzutun live || UT Connewitz || Leipzig
23/08/2025 ahabzutun live || IG Fortuna || Leipzig
24/07/2025 ah_mult live || Spxlxnkx || Leipzig
19/04/2025 Swish x Prepaid Showcase || SLUG || Leipzig
24/08/2024 ahabzutun live || IG Fortuna || Leipzig
17/08/2024 global_zutun DJ-Set || Kumpela Soli || Leipzig
01/06/2024 global_zutun DJ-Set || Sphere Radio Container || Leipzig
04/05/2024 Emilio Zabaione DJ-Set|| Neues Schauspiel || Leipzig
07/12/2023 ahabzutun DJ-Set || Callshop Radio || Leipzig
26/08/2023 ahabzutun live || IG Fortuna || Leipzig
16/06/2023 global_zutun DJ-Set || Sphere Radio Container || Leipzig
20/05/2023 ahabzutun live || SPXLXNKX || Leipzig
26/02/2023 ahabzutun live as ah_mult || Gallery Panke || Berlin
25/02/2023 ahabzutun DJ-Set || PRACHT || Leipzig
03/12/2022 ahabzutun live || PRACHT || Leipzig
12/11/2022 ahabzutun DJ-Set b2b Schmeichel || Saalfelder Str. Leipzig
09/07/2022 ahabzutun live as ah_mult || SWISH @ Pracht || Leipzig
16/12/2021 Museum of Strange Odeur as ah_mult || Aquarium || Leipzig
20/11/2021 ahabzutun live as ah_mult || Noises Narratives || Halle CANCELLED
10/10/2021 ahabzutun live as ah_mult || Noises Narratives || Halle
25/09/2021 ahabzutun live as ah_mult || Busy Hands Fest || Leipzig
18/09/2021 ahabzutun DJ Set || Spinnerei || Leipzig
11/09/2021 ahabzutun live || mjut || Leipzig
05/09/2021 ahabzutun DJ Set || Tarmac Festival
07/08/2021 ahabzutun live as ah_multi || Cosmic Gathering || Chemnitz
01/03/2021 ahabzutun DJ Set || Rosenbeth || Radio Corax
10/10/2020 Thomas Schröder & Munzard live || Pierre Grasse || Halle
29/09/2020 Thomas Schröder & Munzard live || OstXXX || Leipzig
29/08/2020 Thomas Schröder live, ahabzutun DJ-Set || Cosmic Gathering || Chemnitz
18/04/2020 ahabzutun DJ Set || Scene City || Noods Radio
02/04/2020 ahabzutun live || Odradek || Chemnitz CANCELLED
17/03/2020 Romain de Ferron & Bravo Tounky || Aquarium || Leipzig CANCELLED
11/03/2020 Emma Grace & Kacktuss || Aquarium || Leipzig
23/02/2020 Etceteral & Thomas Schröder || Aquarium || Leipzig
12/02/2020 Eyal Talmor et. al. live || Aquarium || Leipzig
15/12/2019 Music-Mozgi Labelmarket || Aquarium || Leipzig
05/12/2019 ahabzutun & Munzard live || Aquarium || Leipzig
21/11/2019 Thomas Schröder & Max Müller live || T!FF || Leipzig
09/11/2019 ahabzutun & Global Warming || NBL Seanaps Festival || Leipzig
17/10/2019 Prepaid Radio Allstars || Pracht || Leipzig

PREview || PRE004 Yolabmi - Ordinary Days || 05 - recfeel

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