System Failure's fifth episode explores the Syrian Cassette Archives, a project and collective that aims to preserve, share and research sounds and stories from Syria’s cassette era (1970s-2000s). The collection features an overview of musical styles from Syriaʼs many communities, including Syrian Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds and Armenians, as well as Iraqis displaced by sanctions and wars throughout the latter part of the 20th century.Under the forced displacement and horrors of the war in the region the archive takes also the role of preserving collective cultural memory that is often overlooked. The project, besides digitizing and making the digital collection freely available online, offers a rich material from interviews with musicians and producers from the era, curated audio features , field recordings and written contributions from a variety of writers and researchers as well as close collaboration with Syrian communities globally.
In the context of decolonizing music histories and music technologies beyond the Anglo-American West, System failure welcomes today Mark Gergis and Yamen Mekdad of Syrian Cassette Archives, discussing their work with the project, cassette as a cultural practice, the local histories and networks of innovation, the electrification of folk music and the politics and ethics of archiving and preserving marginalized cultural production among other topics.

Featuring cassette & mp3 selections from the Syrian Cassette Archives 
collection + radio, TV & field recordings recorded between 2006-2010 
by Mark Gergis in Damascus, Homs & Aleppo, Syria. 
Assembled and produced by Mark Gergis for Syrian Cassette Archives 
Originally assembled for Yamen Mekdad's Contextualize program, 
aired on Root Radio, July, 2020
Available at https://syriancassettearchives.bandcamp.com/album/syrian-cassette-archives-mixtape-vol-1

System Failure EP5 Syrian Cassette Archives

Life Subconscious, the details of everyday life hidden behind our great minds ability to survive. Beyond the biological parts of our beings what dwells beneath? The inner voice, our intuition and our soul. This album is a culmination of ideas from deep in Johnny Posh's subconscious. Intuitively crafted to spark a connection between his own, and his listeners being.

Johnny Posh - Vicissitude (Anatolian Weapons Remix)

With its 10th edition, Dalmata Daniel’s split series brings together two artists who have both left their mark on the label’s compilations, now presenting their first full releases on the imprint. Anatolian Weapons and The Spy approach electronic music from different angles, one rooted in hypnotic techno rituals, the other in raw electro and post-punk energy. Both craft sounds that thrive in the shadows of the dancefloor.

On the A-side, Anatolian Weapons delivers three cold, hypnotic cuts. "Trapped" opens with heavy EBM percussion and a buzzkill bassline, setting a tense, mechanical tone. "Further Spiralling Down" sinks deeper into darkness with a grinding low end, tight drums, and electro-tinged claps, forming the side’s relentless highlight. "Apathy Through Shock" closes with pounding, catatonic rhythms and a mournful, otherworldly melody, pushing the listener into disorienting depths.

Flipping over, The Spy’s raw, electro-driven energy takes hold. "Same Blur" channels sharp electro beats with a punkish sneer and cosmic synth lines. "Falling", featuring The Spy’s own vocals, leans into melancholic new wave, pairing bouncy rhythms with bittersweet melodies. The closing "Pretending" drifts into the darkest corners, offering low-slung, haunted electro layered with distant, spectral harmonies.

Anatolian Weapons
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anatolian_weapons/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anatolianweapons

Dalmata Daniel
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dalmatadanielrecords/
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PREMIERE: Anatolian Weapons - Further Spiralling Down (Dalmata Daniel)

Artist: Anatolian Weapons
Title: Trapped
Label: Dalmata Daniel
Cat: DDS10
Genre: Acid, EBM, Techno
Release Date: 12/09/2025
Buy Link: https://dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com/album/dds10

With its 10th edition, Dalmata Daniel’s split series brings together two artists who have both left their mark on the label’s compilations, now presenting their first full releases on the imprint. Anatolian Weapons and The Spy approach electronic music from different angles, one rooted in hypnotic techno rituals, the other in raw electro and post-punk energy. Both craft sounds that thrive in the shadows of the dancefloor. On the A-side, Anatolian Weapons delivers three cold, hypnotic cuts. "Trapped" opens with heavy EBM percussion and a buzzkill bassline, setting a tense, mechanical tone. "Further Spiralling Down" sinks deeper into darkness with a grinding low end, tight drums, and electro-tinged claps, forming the side’s relentless highlight. "Apathy Through Shock" closes with pounding, catatonic rhythms and a mournful, otherworldly melody, pushing the listener into disorienting depths. Flipping over, The Spy’s raw, electro-driven energy takes hold. "Same Blur" channels sharp electro beats with a punkish sneer and cosmic synth lines. "Falling", featuring The Spy’s own vocals, leans into melancholic new wave, pairing bouncy rhythms with bittersweet melodies. The closing "Pretending" drifts into the darkest corners, offering low-slung, haunted electro layered with distant, spectral harmonies.

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https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel // https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons

Curator:
Kaio Batista

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PREMIERE: Anatolian Weapons - Trapped [Dalmata Daniel]

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Radio Alhara 11.09.25_Reveries w/ Prest

“paranoid mix 4 paranoid times” - dome zero
Dome Zero guests on this month's show for Accidental Meetings. An hour of post punk and
jagged club bits in the second half. 

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Outsiders: Accidental Meetings w/ Voidal & Dome Zero @ Kiosk Radio 16.09.2025

Recovery Channel returns with their Outsiders residency, this time hosting Moss M.

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Outsiders: Recovery Channel w/ Moss M @ Kiosk Radio 16.09.2025

Lakuti & Tama Sumo back with their quarterly show exploring the roots and branches of House music & beyond. Music showcased at their signature Your Love events.

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Outsiders: Your Love w/ Lakuti & Tama Sumo @ Kiosk Radio 13.09.2025

A radio show turned into a movie club, where monthly guests share their favorite film sounds, personal movie memories and more — on Kiosk and Critikat Magazine. This show marks the very first episode of their Outsiders residency.

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Outsiders: The Scores w/ Liyo @ Kiosk Radio 17.09.2025

System Failure is a monthly radio show, currently airing on Kiosk Radio, focusing on decolonizing music histories through exploring local scenes, histories of places and communities along the lines of gender, race, class, citizenship status etc  mostly  outside the Anglo-American west (but including marginalized, indigenous and diasporic communities and artists). System Failure is seeking different trajectories in the use of music technologies, histories of scenes and places as well as community and belonging away from the common tropes, stereotypes and assumptions of Euro- and Anglo-American- centric gazes. The show ranges in format, from sets, to interviews/discussions and sound documentaries, to story telling  along with music, field recordings and archival material. We aim to showcase music from a variety of genres (with attention to electronic and experimental music) that is made primarily by individuals who identify as women, queer folks but also marginalized communities along with histories of their local scenes and influences/roots, surrounding and interrelated works of sound art, film, writing, spoken word including, interviews with artists, DJs, producers, collectors, labels, cultural critics, artists collectives etc. We aim to emphasize scenes and genres where the above artists’ contribution remains obscured, exploring local scenes that don’t get exposure to mainstream or even alternative media, as well as the work of labels, DJs and collectors that discover, preserve and give access to those works.

System Failure EP5 Syrian Cassette Archives

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