Emerging from the fertile chaos of Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs scene, Sequence of Events, the collaborative project of Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, presents The Art of Memory, an album that feels both intimate and ungraspable, like recalling a dream that fades upon waking.

Rooted in the post-industrial landscapes of West Germany, The Art of Memory channels the bleak resilience of these environments into its sound. It’s a collage of kraut-infused electronics, shoegaze textures, and industrial pulses, filtered through a lens of introspective psychedelia. “We don't consciously break down or combine genres,” they explain. “Everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.”

From the opening track TAR, with its stoic vocals and drum-heavy propulsion, to the robotic Meagre Gardens, where autotuned chants coil around unconventional drum programming, the album moves like a fever dream through fragmented memories. Soul Divider unfolds like a cinematic journey through yearning and desire, its repetitive pulses echoing the ache of unfulfilled longing, while Nature Hates Life distills pop music through the eyes of a killjoy: “Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” as the band describes it. Even moments of...  more
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Music written and produced by Deniz Ahmet Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns
Lyrics by Joshua Gottmanns
Recorded in Düsseldorf and Berlin
Additional recordings with Alexander Fuchs at Hotel Viktoria in Meersburg
Mixed by Deniz Ahmet Saridas
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Cover and inner sleeve by Deniz Ahmet Saridas, concept by Joshua Gottmanns
Liner Notes: Caroline Whiteley
A&R by Dominik André & Nevesthika Muralitharan
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Long time record collector and purveyor of fine musical flavours Mr. Pedro cooks up a banquet of aural delights every other week: afrobeat to disco and more, time to liven up.  
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Feel your way into the new week with Customs’s 15th Outsiders show. A dissonant haze gives way to tender guitars and emotive synths, as this month's episode wears its heart on its sleeve.

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Not much words to lose about an hour of non-shazamable intercontinental Albion minimal-synth-disco-wave-folk thunderstorms. Tracks melt that were never meant to and this is a good thing, as always with a little wink

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| GOOD MORNING SKYLAB | w/ Simon | 20.06.25

Another call from Sydney from Perth Lewis (Luke Fugar) - producer and DJ, who recently released the ambient/balearic EP "Jetty Summer" on California's Dream Chimney. 

In the guest mix, Luke has collected his favorite tracks and melodies with reflections on love.

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In this first episode, I explore dark sounds that have accompanied me for years. The journey searches, among shadows, for small flashes of light. It’s an intimate trip, passing through sleazy goth, krautrock, ambient, and electronic disco.

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Jaye Ward: 25th June '25

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The early afternoon with the sunlight flooding in together with Smetana's trippy, bright and savvy DJ set were a pleasant combination. 

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Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you. 
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