ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Alley Catss is the main project of Máté Elod Janky, a Budapest-based borderline musician and visual artist. His work is characterized by the observation of digital textures and motifs and the reinterpretation of their environmental and spatial qualities. Running Daddypower Records, an independent label dedicated to experimental arts.

https://alleycatss.neocities.org/
https://soundcloud.com/alleycatss
https://alleycatss.bandcamp.com/album/xyal
https://www.instagram.com/711f/


🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

We want to establish new ways to think and act collectively via sonic means. Sound’s ability to touch the listener, to involve them via emotional and physical affection, turns the sonic into a partner in the fight for a more just world. Sonic Agency is led by urgency and the pressing need for articulation. It is an effort to enable and reinforce transformative processes in our societies, while critically questioning hegemonic systems. Sonic Agency opens up space for a caring community of equals. Sonic Agency is grounded in the sonic’s ability to introduce the feeling of connectivity, and the possibility of community – a community yet to come.


…being together, in community


Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - ALLEY CATSS - "Clot"

move fate reagent

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windowseeker - reach out

POLAAR presents Kiritchenko « Rust Trust » — a debut EP that reimagines the legacy of IDM through a razor-sharp, jungle-laced lens.

Across four tracks at a restless 160BPM, Kiritchenko weaves intricate percussive patterns with sweeping melodic structures, channeling breakbeat science into something strikingly personal, balancing club pressure with abstract finesse. Destructured yet fluid, experimental yet deeply emotive, these are not tracks that follow formulas. They stretch, distort, and rebuild rhythm in unexpected ways, sketching out a sonic world where tension, harmony, and glitch coexist. Locked into his own frequency and after a brilliant release on PM+ (Peder Mannerfelt's label), Kiritchenko keeps on delivering sonic curiosities with precision and zero imitation.

Kiritchenko - Liquid Teeth

@jusnjjshh

Artwork: Alexander Turovsky (www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/)
Mastering: Christoff Riedel (@riedelchristoff) 
Catalogue Number: cime010 
Release Date: June 16th, 2025

https://cime-world.ban

Justin - Brushed, Inc

Along our life path, we intricately entwine energetic bonds with those we encounter. Many of these relationships are precious, as they nourish our soul, bringing us happiness and strength. But remember, we can also be drained of energy in toxic relationships, where we imprison ourselves in cycles of co-dependency and despair.

This collection is a journey of liberation, incorporating angelic frequencies that will erase negative ties that bind us. By releasing these ties, we unleash new possibilities and bring in a future that is not weighed down with the past. Allow each piece to lead you on the journey to renewal, giving you the strength to confront the future with clarity, freedom, and grace.
credits
released June 26, 2025

Compiled and curated by : Archidi
Artwork and animation by : Misfit
Mastering by: Geometric Corruption Studio

iaeeouaoaii - Ephemeral

Pholis G - Fed back

Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das - SSAC42
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM120
Format: Digital
Release Date: June 27th, 2025

Tracklist: 

1. everyth1ng 1n l1fe (feat. K_anti)
2. EXT10 (feat. K_anti)
3. dysph0r1a (feat. K_anti)
4. XSCX
5. N0R
6. ap0calypse 42
7. espress0
8. Blue Box Recovery

Listening to Bios Contrast–aka Nilotpal Das’--SSAC42 for the first time might be likened to the experience of watching sunlight shimmering on the surface of a body of water. There is an effortless spontaneity, a mesmerizing ebb and flow. There is a movement which continually reminds us of itself. We are drawn in without needing to understand why. Curiosity takes hold—not a ‘question-driven’ curiosity–but a quiet immersion in the unfolding moment. It feels familiar, but distant; intimate, yet undeniably alien–the more we surrender to it, the more it transforms. We do not give our attention so much as we permit ourselves to drift along. With each passing moment, we are captivated anew, drawn into the throes of unexpected emotion.

The sonic world of SSAC42 seems to pull influence from various forms of electronic music on the fringes. We hear rapid, intricate drum patterns. We feel the warmth of synth textures, the soft glow of ambient pads collapsing gracefully into themselves. The airy vocals of K_anti play a significant role–gliding in over arrangements at unforeseen moments, bringing us closer to something vast and luminous. We never quite arrive, but feel as though we’re always approaching. The tracks are melodic without being grounded in melody. They coalesce, fracture, and reform. A pattern begins, and vanishes, swiftly replaced by something else entirely. Time loses shape; moments of breathtaking stillness recline over fierce drum sequences.

This warping of time is notable in the first track “everyth1ng 1n l1fe”, where soft atmospheric elements churn slowly above chaotic jittering drums. The juxtaposition stirs, generating an ongoing tension that is never resolved. Ethereal, washed out vocals pull us further into weightless expanse. Lush moments build up and transfigure, revealing new forms with each phrase. The second track “EXT10” takes us further into moments of unanticipated wonder. Through the turbulence, shifting elements are not mourned as they pass, but welcomed; we do not question their departure—we move forward with them.

The third composition, “dysph0r1a” opens with a clear vocal presence.  K_anti’s tender delivery occasionally rises above the evolving terrain of synths—fleeting, decipherable, then submerged once again. Later on, the sixth track “ap0calypse 42” carries us through a striking arc: from softness to percussive fury, and back into calm. The transformation is tumultuous, but also cyclical—destructive and restorative in turn.

The shapeshifting quality of the album can feel disorienting. Just as we find comfort and predictability, it dissolves. Familiarity is teased, and withdrawn. Perhaps it is in this instability that the core of SSAC42’s potential lies. As the unending search for meaning in our human lives is consistently upended and reimagined, SSAC42 seems to quietly posit that moments of solace will reveal themselves amid the chaos; wonder and enchantment persist if we are willing to stay open.

Words by M. Elijah Sueuga



Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das - ap0calypse 42

https://xvience.bandcamp.com/album/rhizomatic

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bb948 - llinnn1

2 tangled [liquid glitch eclectic]

Control/Damage

Inertia Colors

“Softer hands” introduces a reality where art-electronics emerge from familiar club language. Sentimental melodies spray delicate feelings over metallic, hypnotising backgrounds. Distant, angelic choirs are softly moulded and shaped by whirring mechanical sounds, hisses and swooshes. Over time, the music leads inward, letting light through densely packed soundscapes. The result is touching, otherworldly, at times uncanny or post-apocalyptic, like an ensemble of machines learning to feel. The circle of three remixers perfectly understands the language cratje operates in, adding to the universe created within four original tracks. 
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cratje is a co-runner of MONTAGE, a Brussels-based trans-medial output, and host of "Stoute Muziek," a radio show on KIOSK.

2 tangled [liquid glitch eclectic]

T.E.N.T.