Siren Recordings is a digital, multimodal platform that operates as boutique, studio, and archive. We seek to connect scholars, artists, and lovers of sonic poetry in an online community. Following Ed Sanders, we believe that perfection comes in the poetic triad: “the spoken text/the text as beauteously presented on the page/the text as performed.” We incorporate elements of sound and music into recordings of poetry performances to emphasize the affective, social experience of poetic work. 

We value experimentation in form, both contemporary and modern. We renew older poetic works by treating the archive as a participant in the work we are making; archival play ensures that our releases blend contemporary technology with influential poetry. These values seek to serve one, ultimate goal: to contribute to the siren call that warns of the diminishing time we spend in the archaic situation of gathering to hear someone speak.

For all inquiries, email admin@sirenrecordings.com.

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Resident dj @not-your-techno
1/2 Double Double djs with @melissajuicedj
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꩜ 2025 ꩜
4/07 - Queeride, Umi, Brussels, BE
27/06 - TBA
21/06 - Not Your Dirty, BIS, Brussels, BE
17/05 - b2b Ampe, Fuse, Brussels, BE
11/04 - GIMIC, Brussels, BE
29/03 -  Charivari, Brussels, BE

꩜ 2024 ꩜
22/11 - b2b Sara Dziri, Not Your Techno, C12, Brussels, BE
09/11 - Fuse, Brussels, BE
31/10 - ThursDAY, Ginger bar, Brussels, BE
19/10 - b2b Melissa Juice, Museum Night Fever, Brussels, BE
11/10 - Funke, Ghent, BE
28/06 - La Cabane, Brussels, BE
28/06 - Not Your Techno, Paradise City, BE
21/05 - Sono Ventura x Circle Park, Brussels, BE
26/05 - Not Your Techno, Brussels, BE
25/05 - Château Moderne, Brussels, BE
18/05 - Reset, Brussels, BE
04/05 - Fresh fm, Jardin Hospice, Brussels, BE
30/04 - Lube, C12, Brussels, BE
19/04 - Them, Stammbar, Brussels, BE
16/03 - b2b Melissa Juice, Celebration of Life, Antwerp, BE
09/02 - Funke, Ghent, BE
01/01 - b2b Melissa Juice, C12, BE

꩜ 2023 ꩜
31/12 - Contrair, De Studio, Antwerp, BE
16/12 - b2b Thom Leblanc, Stamm, Brussels, BE
02/12 - C12, Brussels, BE
01/12 - Le Belgica, Brussels, BE
28/10 - XXXL, Brussels, BE
27/10 - Recyclart, Brussels, BE
13/10 - b2b Melissa Juice, Club Saga, Brussels, BE
13/10 - Kiosk Radio w/Xogn, Brussels, BE
30/09 - b2b Thom Leblanc, Stamm, Brussels, BE
23/09 - b2b Manuszko, Maison du Peuple, Brussels, BE
08/09 - Funke, Ghent, BE
01/09 - b2b Sara Dziri, NYT @ Recyclart, Brussels, BE
26/08 - Magma, Vaux Hall, Brussels, BE
21/07 - b2b Thom Leblanc, Maison du peuple, BE
15/07 - b2b Acid Lilies, Woodpecker, BE
22/06 - SunDAY, Ginger bar, BE
17/06 - b2b Melissa Juice, Maison du peuple, BE
09/06 - b2b SVS, Jalousy, BE
28/05 - Supergay at Funke, BE
27/05 - Klub Dramatik, BE
20/05 - b2b Melissa Juice, Not Your Techno x Gay Haze, BE
14/05 - Vostok, Woodpecker, BE
13/05 - Discoteca Formula, Bolwerk, BE
21/04 - Maison du Peuple, BE (extended set)
15/04 - Sine Fine, BE
06/04 - b2b2b Acid Lily & Melissa Juice, Le Zoo, CH
31/03 - b2b Acid Lily, Not Your Techno x Listen Festival, BE
25/03 - b2b Melissa Juice, Fuse, BE
17/02 - Radio Vacarme, Atelier 210, b2b2b Holy Coco & Melissa Juice
11/02 - Not Your Techno, C12, BE
28/01 - Maison du Peuple, BE (extended set)

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

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I just really like pushing buttons so making music is perfect for me.

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