BSS - De Regenboog

I was delighted to contribute a soundscape commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Shipping Forecast being broadcast on the BBC. This audio piece was featured on a special edition of Front Row, and was recorded in front of a live audience at the iconic Cutty Sark in London, adding to the occasion's magnitude.

While researching and exploring artistic concepts for the soundscape, I discovered how important the Shipping Forecast is to many people, and most notably how it helps people in getting to sleep. This notion of the Shipping Forecast serving as the nations lullaby really resonated with me, becoming the central inspiration for shaping my composition.

It was an honour to be a part of this historical moment and to be featured alongside other incredibly talented poets, authors and musicians. 

Link to the full episode on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002699w 

Released: 01 Jan 2025

Special thanks to: Julian May, Samira Ahmed, Royal Museums Greenwich “Cutty Sark” and the brilliant team behind the live recording.

BBC Shipping Forecast Soundscape for Front Row on BBC Radio 4

Sebastian Mullaert has always favoured the long arc: of tracks, of creative cycles, of artistic trust. His next chapter unfolds in the form of a new vinyl only label, born in close collaboration with Ulf Eriksson — his longtime friend, ally and the steady pulse behind Kontra Musik, a label that’s been both home and launchpad for many of Mullaert’s most vital releases.

K-Files is built on two foundations: singularity and multiplicity. Every release will present a single track refracted through three or four different versions — each one approaching the core idea from a distinct creative angle. These are tools not just for DJs, but for listeners who hear dance music as more than just rhythm — as mood, as exploration, as transformation.

The first release, KFILE 001, sets the tone: deep, dubby, and spacious, it invites patience and immersion. But like all good rituals, the process will shift. Future releases are already poised to explore other territories: sharper energies, stranger grooves, unexpected colours.

In an world increasingly defined by instant access and digital saturation, K-Files stands
intentionally apart — a slower offering. A return to physicality, to process, to the tactile rituals of listening, selecting, and playing music with care.

K-Files is a sublabel for those who play records not just to move bodies, but to open space. A
platform for sonic evolution, variation, and perspective. A place where dance music is not pinned down — but opened up.

Each record will be released exclusively on vinyl.


K-FILES 01

K-FILES01 -  Sebastian Mullaert  - K-FILES01 PREVIEW

For almost two decades, I have been tirelessly seeking honesty in music. I aim to find the sounds with which the artist speaks. Soundscapes that make you feel. Atmospheres that not only fill your room (and headphones) but truly transport you into another time and place. I will never forget the first time I heard Abul Mogard’s music. I was mesmerised. His intricate attention to sound design, rich textures, and manipulation of the created environment instantly transformed me into an avid fan. His music didn’t just augment my mood; it seemed to seep into my being, altering the code behind the perception of my mind. I didn’t just listen to his music, I invited it to be a part of my condition. In an effort to delve deeper and spend more time with such music, and more importantly, the composers themselves,  I created Headphone Community, where I feature an artist for an in-depth exploration. In the last three months, I’ve highlighted the sounds of James Murray, Ben Chatwin, and Erik K Skodvin. Today, I am honoured to announce that Abul Mogard will be the featured artist for the entire month of June! I invite you to join us on this journey, with the knowledge that your financial contribution will go directly to the artist!

Join here: https://www.patreon.com/c/HeadphoneCommunity

TRACK PREMIERE : Abul Mogard - In a studded procession

Vanligt Folk - TKO

2025年7月24日 19:30-22:30 JST 

Shogawin
Erika
Resom




#dub-techno #ambient

R 303 Radioとruralのコラボレーション企画として、rural 2025へ出演するアーティストを中心としたプログラムがフェスティバル前後に配信が決定。 世界を舞台に活躍し、本祭でも個性あふれるパフォーマンスを届けてくれるであろうアーティストたちが、R 303 Radioスタジオから違った側面のセットを披露してくれます。 Ginger Coven、またソロとしても出演するErikaとResomがShowgawin名義での出演をはじめとして、様々なアーティストによる特別な公演をお楽しみください。

As part of a collaboration between R 303 Radio and rural, a program centered on artists appearing at rural 2025 will be broadcast before and after the festival. Artists who are active on the world stage and are sure to deliver unique performances at the festival will reveal a different side of themselves from the R 303 Radio studio. Featuring Ginger Coven, as well as Erika and Resom performing under the name Showgawin, along with various other artists, this special performance promises to be an unforgettable experience.

Room 303 ・三○三号室 
https://instagram.com/room303radio

@ WPÜ HOTEL SHINJUKU 
https://www.instagram.com/wpu_shinjuku

Shogawin (Erika & Resom) ｜2025年7月24日｜#dub-techno #ambient

This is the recording of the Set I played at Muumimaa on wednesday midnight - thank you so so much for dancing with me, and for all the love showers you gave me during and after my set! Such a pleasure playing for you sweet borderlings <3 

Thank you Stefan for always providing the most delicious sound for my favorite music, and to the moomin family for the impeccable setup :-*

A special thanks to Pablo Pico, who created the incredible intro track 'Opéra Sirocco' and allowed me to play it here - watch the movie! It's called 'Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds' and it's very beautiful.

And immense love to @user-112003920 for the closing track. Such a gift!

May you all receive and perceive love as a reminder to find your center <3

Cha'rain @ Muumimaa I Borderland 2025

♥‿♥
Recorded at @noname_community • June 2025

thank you @aspetuck

e25.orbit07 • aspetuck

Sebastian Mullaert has always been a seeker and an innovator, so naturally his long awaited debut solo album, ”A Place Called • Inkonst“ presents an unique artistic concept and a thoughtful exploration of the relationship between sound and space. 

For several weeks, Mullaert spent most of his time at Kontra-Musik’s home base Inkonst, an old chocolate factory turned cultural hub in the busy urban area of Möllan, Malmö city. Working in solitude outside the venue's usual hours, he built his live rig in front of the PA, right in the middle of the dance floor. This figurative role reversal between a dancer and performer allowed him to fully immerse himself in a perspective as close as possible to that of the audience during the process of creation. Mullaert’s recording studio lies deep within a beautiful forest in the south of Sweden, a setting which has increasingly made its mark on his music: lush, green and spacious. It’s a lovely place that makes for equally lovely music, but contentment is art’s worst enemy. The complete displacement during the recording process of this album has affected his music profoundly. Mullaert’s usually wide horizon of green hills and tall beech wood is more condensed and focused here, taking the form of urban patterns of life. Shades of longing and melancholy run through the album and those hazy ambient parts are no longer modelled on morning mist, they are exuding from smoke machines. 

The album is an exploration of improvisation, an approach that has become far more than a method for Mullaert:  For him this is a way of encountering the present. The tracks are expressions of chance; collisions and collaborations of sound waves caught in the moment by Mullaert, like snapshots of fleeting harmony. The thematics are always distinct but at the same time ever morphing, pulsating and breathing like living entities. As the music changes we accordingly change with it. New patterns of movement and thought emerge and we improvise to keep up. This is the concept of dancing in its purest form, but also of meditation. A place called • Inkonst is made for both. 

A place called • Inkonst is Sebastian Mullaert’s hommage to improvisation - an approach that is central to his work as a musician, as well as his critically acclaimed Circle Of Live event series concept he launched last year. The here and now is always in a state of flux, so improvising is the only true way to experience the present.

KM055 Sebastian Mullaert - A place called • Inkonst PREVIEW

"ALLT E’NTE" IS A REACTION TO THE EMERGING EXPECTATION ON POLITICIZATION OF MUSIC. A RESPONS TO THE DEMAND AND IMPLICIT CONDITION TO BE CURRENT, RELEVANT AND TAKE A STAND.

ALLT E’NTE REPUDIATES ALL RESPONSIBILITY, CONVEYS HARDLY ANYTHING, BUT HOPEFULLY OCCUPIES SPACE. 

ALLT E’NTE CELEBRATES SYNTHESIS AND REJECTS BINARIES. OUR HOPE IS THAT ALLT E’NTE IS AS OUT-OF-DATE IN 200 YEARS AS IT IS TODAY. NO NEED TO POINT OUT THE PARADOX.

SINCERELY, VANLIGT FOLK

Track list:
BEng
Boss
Benny
Bah SØD
VKO
‘nte
(Allt e) POLITIKK
POLITIKK

 Allt E'nte

ALLT E’NTE

KM056/KESS12 Vanligt Folk - ALLT E’NTE PREVIEW

https://kontra-musik.bandcamp.com/album/syra
TM404 - SYRA

The evolution of Andreas Tilliander’s moniker TM404 has reached its third stage. The first TM404 album was a heavily self-restricted concept album, live recorded with classic Roland machines. The subsequent album had a more playful vibe, shaped by Tilliander’s extensive live touring. This third TM404 album on Kontra-Musik simply tells the story of what he’s been up to since. The third part of a musical diary, initiated in 2013. 

The TM404 venture might have started out as a dreamy acid dub project, more suited for the chill-out than the main floor. But by popular demand Tillander found himself touring big clubs around the globe and the TM404 sound adapted organically. As a result, the album features tracks like Vactro and Rymdeko: fast paced acidic techno tracks in the same vein as classic Plus 8 releases, but with more space echo. Much more.

But never fear, fans of the classic warm and bubbling TM404 sound. You’ll certainly get yours as well. A substantial portion of this album was recorded in a studio flat in Berlin as part of an artist residency. For obvious reasons, Tilliander could only bring a small portion of his studio gear to this German sanctuary. As a consequence, this album has a more stripped down vibe than its predecessors, which creates more space for Tilliander’s glowing melodies. The last track on the album, a loving homage to Kontra-Musik’s label boss, is a sublime example.

And for the Instagram generation, here’s the short version: The album is called Syra. That translates to Acid. You’re welcome.

Syra

KM058 TM404 - Syra PREVIEW

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BBC Shipping Forecast Soundscape for Front Row on BBC Radio 4

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