Playlist of artists performing on this year's edition of Transforma festival.


Hudební výběr umělců vystupujících na devátém ročníku festivalu Transforma.

Transforma 24

KABEAUSHÉ - ANDNOWAWORDFROMOURSPONSORS

A few more songs about sticky thoughts and background fear, this time dancing hypnotically in place with pink sheer flesh and creeping tendrils.

Jellyfish

Dark Vessel

Šklabuník Overload

Bodies Aren't Ours

Living Room n°52 ~ @opheliaxz

q. pls introduce yourself
a. Hi I’m Kelsey and I’m currently residing in Philadelphia, USA.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. Story behind this mix was to try and meld more pop/trap north American contemporary ambient music I’ve been vibing with alongside a bit of a folk/dubient twist. I just wanted to try something new. My favorite style of ambient mixing is the textured notes melded with pretty variants. I don’t like things to stay the same for too long in mixes. It’s a journey and I want to take you with me through my mind.

q. what's the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. The best way to enjoy my mix is anywhere really. My hope is that it takes you somewhere new or allows you to zone out peacefully.

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. I’m not home in my living room currently but when I am home my favorite item is my lava lamp my friend Rory gave me for my birthday 3 years ago. It’s very trippy.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. I’m working on a lot of music and have some promising things lined up. Id say watch out for them this fall and early-mid next year. ( :

Living Room n°52 ~ Opheliaxz

The Blue Hour

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Adela Mede - Holnap

Pain Management welcomes London cult favourite DJ ojo, who arrives on the label with a hazy three tracker of trademark nether zone system music. On his most dubbed out full length to date, ojo span’s the full emotive spectrum of dub sonics with a range of both the eerie and more tender expansions of low end atmospherics, the resulting 12” equally suited for the club and the journey home alike.

‘Tongue Tied’ opens the record, a lysergic offering from the darker edges of dub music. A slippery fugue-state hit of narco-ambience built around a crooning, intelligible vocal refrain and chest shot sub weight. A real nightfall system pusher built to simmer in the early hours. It kicks off the EP on an amorphous, hypnotic note that sustains throughout.‘Oil Dub’ sinks deeper into the fog, melodic kinesis and expansive delays upholding an underworld of feedbacked percussion and tongue in cheek sub motion; a seven minute sound bath of ambiguous dub ASMR.

The B-side balances out the darker strains found on its counterpart with an overtly tender digidub closer. Clocking in at almost ten minutes long ‘Cloud Suck’ is a nebulous bliss of perpetually ascending late-summer warmth. The kind of liminal dream-state embrace that you wish would never end. True to the name, it evokes tender, dusk and dawn hued moments, a quiet ride-home flash of introspection on the way to or from some pursuit of meaning. Pain Management essential right here.

Limited run of 200 hand-stamped 12” records available now.

DJ Ojo - Cloud Suck

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: https://retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

premiere: Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel

This mix is made up entirely of intro and outro tracks, defined as such by their authors through the titles. It is built around the idea of an endless beginning and end, creating a continuous musical flow. 

A constant sense of anticipation that never fully resolves is followed by an extended wait for an ending. As a result, intros and outros, which usually frame an album’s main content, become complete pieces that shape the mix.

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Outsiders: West Mineral Ltd. w/ OL - Intro/Outro Mix @ Kiosk Radio 01.04.2025

hazy trip-hop, fragile idm and emo post-rock echoes trace the veins of sorrow, broken dreams, and the kind of love that leaves a mark; fragments, hidden in your dusken heart… 

recorded 17/03/25

artwork by Ella Bliss Walker

in your dusken heart ❦

Bristol's k means rides through the weirder corners of club music.

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Outsiders: k means @ Kiosk Radio 15.04.2025

the state the world is right now inspired this mix - in the beginning, there was no sin
 “scream phoenix” 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/3xl/episodes/3xl-28th-april-2025

3XL w/ Succubass  280425

A London duo weaving vibrant patchworks of dance floor debris, Angel Rocket is the brainchild of Angel Hunt (Good Morning Tapes) & Peter Rocket (BEAM). As dual specialists in new-clear fusion, primordial blooze and glittering bass-bin pressure, Angel Rocket hurl every shard of their combined musical backlog into their partickle accelerator and emerge time and again with new and playful sonics, charting territory from line-dancehall and swampy techno to blissful Balearic plod, and beyond…

Angel Rocket @ Kiosk Radio 02.05.2025

Post Ambient Lux by @igordyachenko

Pre-order digital & special edition 12" lathe cuts: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp01-post-ambient-lux

Tracklist:
01 – Melted Reality (4:17)
02 – Spectral Tracing (feat. Corell) (3:55)
03 – Emitting (4:34)
04 – Receiver (feat. mu tate) (2:40)
05 – Deviate (4:09)
06 – Sensors (3:52)
07 – Soft Liminal (3:07)
08 – Involved (feat. Nick Malkin) (3:45)
09 – Submerge (4:04)
10 – Sign (4:08)

A LP from experimental sound artist Igor Dyachenko. Featuring contributions from Corell, mu tate, and Nick Malkin the album is a masterclass in textural precision and sonic exploration. With artwork by Yaro Svyatykh and design by Amos Turner, Post Ambient Lux unfolds as one of the most appendix.files-coded releases to date—a record equally concerned with process, perception, and the emotional charge of deep listening.

The album finds focus in its opening track, Melted Reality—a trickling digital stream that gives way to a tidal swell of noise. It's followed by Spectral Tracing, featuring Corell, where this momentum disintegrates and reforms—sonic matter in flux, with molecular fragments melting, colliding, and dissolving again. On Emitting, shimmering vistas seem to generate in real time, like catching up to the edge of the universe and witnessing the raw formation of particles, dust, and energy—enormous and infinitesimal at once. Tangible references dissolve in an instant a million years long. This is an album for the deep thinker and deep listener—as much philosophical as it is sonic. If science fiction were rewritten with the restraint of contemporary minimalism, and stitched into a Craig Green silhouette, this is what it would sound like. On Deviate, the machinery of this imagined space clicks into motion—a dimensional garment assembled in precise layers, operating in intricate order to maintain equilibrium in a liminal zone.

Flipping the disc, we first hear Sensors—where rhythmic consistency hints at orientation, and a sense of direction begins to emerge. Though distractions abound, the path remains porous. Enter Soft Liminal—a moment of surrender where you begin to trust the chaos, and even find nourishment in it. That state of perpetual near-emergence begins to feel less like tension, more like clarity. Involved, featuring Nick Malkin, introduces a familiar tone breaking through the fog—an anchor within the blur—offering reality not as imposition, but as option. Then comes Submerge, inviting a full descent into liquid data, vast fields of signal moving through the nervous system. The closing piece, Sign, gathers these moments with a sense of quiet coherence. This is the wisdom of ambience—a kind of Tao for experimental sound—philosophy rendered as aesthetic, as method, as both catalyst and control.

Post Ambient Lux

Digi + Special 12"

APPX:LP01 Igor Dyachenko – Post Ambient Lux (previews)

Weightless ambient, assertive techno, or various genres of broken rhythms in between.

Daydreaming w/ Shorlax @ Kiosk Radio 08.07.2025

𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵

Record label based in Glasgow. Distro by Boomkat, sub-label Somewhere Between Tapes.

Adela Mede - Holnap

Somewhere Press

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