New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery's music was once described by NPR journalist Lars Gotrich as "swimming through phantoms" – it may sound like an overwrought analogy at first, but simply spend half an hour enveloped in Montgomery's tones, and you'll understand. 

Originally a part of Pin Group in the 1980s, releasing Joy Division-indebted post-punk on the revered Wellington label Flying Nun records, Montgomery eventually unmoored himself from the strictures of verse-chorus-verse songwriting, and other musicians entirely, composing drifting, gauzy guitar instrumentals that channeled his own personal grief and loneliness into a seductively baleful magic.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-roy-montgomery-7th-june-2024

In Focus: Roy Montgomery 070624

collective podcast 33 : molodoy chelovek

Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.

Klein is currently located in Berlin. In 2025 Klein concluded a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more.

Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE),  Empty Gallery (HK),  Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).

“This mix has been compiled at a time in my life where I feel myself on the fulcrum point from accelerating through feeling young towards physically, mentally, and emotionally on the downward side of a peak and feeling older. It is comprised of artists that are materially and actively a part of my life and making sound that is very important to me, and I think should be important to other people as well. Make approaches to music and sound dangerous, rigorous, and urgent again. The world needs a bit of shaking around.”

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NR Sound Mix 077 Nick Klein

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: 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

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal

"Soundscape of the Moments" is an electronic album blending ambient, bass, chillout, downtempo, and touches of IDM. Many tracks were created on a phone — while traveling, on a train, or walking through the city — as sonic snapshots of fleeting moods and moments. 

Mastering by Ilya Semashkevich

Floating Geometry

All tracks written and produced by Sasha Zakrevska in between 2013 and 2024
Mastering: @benpest
AV Collaboration @SophiaBulgakova
PR: @fomopr
Distribution: www.musicdeli.nl

(c) Lightronics 2025

Bandcamp

12. Poly Chain - Get Home Before Curfew

For my new show, I will be diving in a shoreless sonic continuum. 
Once every two months I&amp#39;ll be on my own, trying to draw connections between genres, eras, intentions, or even feelings, to emphasize what appears to me as logical relations between sounds. From &ampquot;Gorillaz-type beats&ampquot; to Torchouze Disco, I&amp#39;ll try to suggest a sensitive approach to mixing.
Every other months, I will be joined by friends and foes from around the continuum, to get their perspective on how they approach and deal with their own sensitive listening.


Shoreless Continuum w/ Seul Ensemble (11/04/25)

John Evexc - Vergessene Welt (Free Download)

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Free Download

Vergessene Welt (Free Download)

PREMIERE : Adhémar + Nils Edte - Moonlight Serenade [PITCH54]

Produced by Clément Davout aka Adhémar and Nils Edte
Mastered by Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio (www.incidence.studio)
Artwork by Mark Wagner
Distributed by Triple Vision
Released by Indefinite Pitch from Yantai, China
Release date: December 18, 2025

This is PITCH54.

Adhémar 
@adhemarmusic
www.instagram.com/adhemar_music/
adhemar.bandcamp.com/

Nils Edte 
@edte-1
www.instagram.com/nils_edte/

Indefinite Pitch
@indefinite-pitch
www.instagram.com/indefinite.pitch/
indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com/
www.indefinitepitch.com/

PREMIERE : Adhémar + Nils Edte - Moonlight Serenade [PITCH54]

Dedicating this one to the late legend Rei Harakami

Floating Geometry

stereometrix