Arthur, known for his work at Hard Wax & Open Ground, presenting a crispy take on Amapiano. Enjoy!

ITPS120 ARTHUR

Artist: IFS meets AGF
Title: East-West Logistics
Label: guides
Release date: 10.10.2025
Format: digital / cassette (edition of 60)
Mix & mastering: IFS
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

IFS meets... is a series of three releases in which the IFS duo (Krzysztof Ostrowski @kook-on, Mateusz Wysocki @fischerle) produce, curate and host guest vocalists. The first publication in the series was an album recorded with Japanese artist MA. The next is a record created with activist, sound artist and vocalist @agf-antye-greie known as AGF. The last album planned in the series will be a release featuring Wojciech Kosma - @spalarnia.

The impulse to record the album with AGF was a project as part of the Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio, during which the three of them - Ostrowski, Wysocki and Greie-Ripatti - met for three working days in Bydgoszcz, with their final event being their performance together at the cult club MÓZG. The material recorded during the rehearsals and concert was what the artists used to create the album. East-West Logistics is a release that focuses many different strategies and experiences. Such as the fact that Greie-Ripatti, Ostrowski and Wysocki are all artists who come from Eastern Bloc countries, whose memory goes back to the regime changes of the 1990s. Another common fact is that all three live far from urban metropolises, in small towns. This is worth keeping in mind when you start listening to East-West Logistics. 

On a musical level, the artists used every possible excuse to transform their time spent together into verbal and sound material. Recorded junk sounds were incorporated into the album's audiosphere, fragments of conversations between AGF, Ostrowski and Wysocki became part of the lyrics, and the artists' city walks proved to be an important framework for AGF's poetic stories. Antye Greie-Ripatti, returning to outlines after her 2017 instrumental EP, this time focuses primarily on her voice, which becomes the focal point of the compositions created by IFS. 

East-West Logistics can be read as a horizontal movement of meanings: between subject and object, between world and individual, between present and past, between voice and sound, between east and west. On the one hand, AGF leans into psychogeographical intuition – she creates spaces for herself, inhabits them and sets new borders for private experience (the title tracks East-West Logistics and Semi-periphery). On the other hand, there is a touching and personal reflection (Limits and Force to feel). There is also room here for a more abstract and experimental formula (Neuro.logical and C– operator). In terms of sound, IFS try not to interfere with the field of view created by AGF. Although the musical texture is sometimes dense, it provides a well-balanced complement to Greie-Ripatti's voice.

While the first album in the IFS meets... series was a combination of an atomised language and post-footwork rhythms, East-West Logistics operates more sparingly. In contrast to MA's frenetic and jittery expression, AGF's voice oscillates between spoken word and singing, on the one hand being calm and attentive, and on the other precisely describing the observed world. IFS, by contrast, has managed to produce a soundscape that simultaneously complements the Greie-Ripatti narrative, but can also function as an independent sound story.

IFS meets AGF - East-West Logistics

One of the most dangerous cities in America. Some of the most influential music in hip-hop history. Welcome back to Memphis. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/roots-2025/episodes/roots-2025-welcome-back-to-memphis-w-big-problem-mac-28th-september-2025

WELCOME (BACK) TO MEMPHIS W/ BIG PROBLEM MAC 280925

Hyas - 1er Octobre 2025

SGMX02
another mix from myself and julen (aka sugar records)
put together over a couple evenings in late september 2025

Tracklist:
Ed Rush - 5AM
Terekke - Fandn
O$VMV$M - House SFX
Paul St. Hilaire - Three And A Half
A.R. Kane - The Sun Falls Into The Sea
Fennesz Sakamoto - Abyss
U.e. - Good Morning
Niagara - Ano-B
Annette Peacock & Paul Bley - Dreams
Andrew Hill - Illusion
Miles Davis - Orange Lady (excerpt)
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One (excerpt)
Billy Wooten - In The Rain

Sugar Mix - September 2025

honeymel : Sip into something soft - 07 Octobre 2025

* FULL INTERVIEW:  https://boltingbits.com/mixed-by-sha-ru

Blending spoken word, heavy bass and club-driven experimentation into something raw, physical and deeply immersive, Sha Ru have carved out a sound that is as cerebral as it is visceral — one that uses low frequencies, texture and space to question how music is felt, not just heard. Their sonic world thrives on contrasts: poetry and pressure, intimacy and intensity, narrative and noise. It’s a language built from the ground up, tuned as much to the body’s response as to the ear’s perception.

With their brand-new self-released EP Vibra Vibra (out October 23), Sha Ru push this philosophy even further. Each track explores how sound ripples through the body and transforms space: sub-bass compressing the chest, subterranean frequencies grounding the gut, buzzing waves pulsing through the skull. It’s a work that positions bass as architecture — a tangible force shaping bodies and rooms alike — and in doing so, it reimagines the dancefloor as a deeply physical environment.

To mark the release, Sha Ru join our MIXED BY series with both an exclusive mix and an in-depth conversation. Across the interview below, the duo dive into the sonic science behind Vibra Vibra, the collaborative dynamic that powers their work, and the political and poetic dimensions that run through their art. Then, in the mix, they extend that exploration into a hypnotic, body-centric journey — a sonic landscape built to be felt in every cell as much as heard in every ear.

INTERVIEW.

MIXED BY/ Sha Ru

aint no

Soft keys, low horns, morning haze.
Snap. Sip. Sunlight hits the face.

Sheets still warm, I stretch in time,
Clock keeps hush, rhythm’s mine.
Yesterday’s doubt slid off my skin,
Confidence curls where dreams begin.
A slow riff under my breath,
Mood so good it scares the stress.
Every pore hums—yeah, that’s bliss,
I woke up like this.

I woke up looking like this, no pretense, no fix.
Just a groove, just a glow, just this.
I woke up looking like this

Trumpet answers what my soul said,
Brushes whisper, I nod my head.
Coffee swirl, mirror grin,
Every scar now dressed in gin.
The world outside still half-asleep,
But my beat runs twelve feet deep.
Don’t call it luck, call it grace—
That’s the truth I wear on my face.

I woke up looking like this, golden tone, pure kiss.
Unlearned fear, kept the bliss.
I woke up looking like this

Mmm… listen—
Every woman, every man,
has a morning they finally stand.
No crown, no makeup,
just breath and rhythm waking up.
Say it with me slow:
I woke up like this.

How’d you wake up?
Like this.
How’d you shine so sweet?
Like this.
What’s that groove beneath your skin?
I been livin’, I been freein’.
I woke up like this.

Bass walks out, horns sigh,
one last brush, one long high.
Morning closes with a kiss—
I woke up looking like this.

I woke up like this (Jazz R&B reload)

Eternal Reflections

LU2K invites San Fransico based - Vitamin1000 (@vitamin1k) resident and class selector Vertigo.

LU2K INVITES VERTIGO - 13 Octobre 2025

Basée à Paris, à Londres et partout dans le monde avec ses plateformes en ligne, Rinse est une radio mais pas seulement : label, management, curation, événements culturels... www.rinse.fr
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Based in Paris, London and all over the world with its online platforms, Rinse is a radio station but not only: label, management, curation, cultural events ... www.rinse.fr

honeymel : Sip into something soft - 07 Octobre 2025

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