What REALLY happened to agent Dana Scully when she was abducted by aliens? This question haunted me for the longest time… I was secretly hoping X-Files big boss Chris Carter would take cues from David Lynch and create some sort of bizarre Black Lodge stream-of-consciousness episode about it. You know, a sci-fi take on dancing midgets, people talking backwards and malicious doppelgängers. Perhaps something along the lines of final sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey"?!
 
Alas, Carter was less risk-taking than Lynch or Kubrick, so it never happened. I can’t make a TV episode, but I can imagine how it would have sounded. And here is the result. I’ll call it Agent Scully’s Abduction Hallucinations. A jumble of Mark Snow's X-Files cues mangled, reassembled, and fused with contemporary (and not so contemporary) electronica and percussion music.
 
Full tracklist at: https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-agent-scullys-abduction-hallucinations-april-2023

Featuring music by: Mark Snow, Alva Noto, Nurse With Wound, OPN, Anthony Manning, Donato Dozzy, Demdike Stare, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Shackleton, Valentina Magaletti & more

Hermetic Journals: Agent Scully's Abduction Hallucinations (April 2023)

Dj-set Sadaqa Jariyah for Bryn Jones 

May God have mercy on his soul.

MULLAH SADAQAH  for Bryn

one off halloween broadcast for @n10-as unnerving industrial hymns, bowery bribes, northern hauntology, southern cut-ups, a specifically quebecois meme lost as mere sound to many (merci marie davidson), the producer of blondie, suicide, and the ramones (among others) making sludgy ethnodelic tapes, haunted dancehall, tightly coiled breakbeats phasing into oblivion, the drummer for napalm death making dub wave dread for a one off compilation that I bought on a whim, ending off with acid on...and on and on I would have gone

Black Sabbath - FX [Warner Brothers, 1972]
Winston Tong - The Next Best Thing To Death [Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1981]
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop (First Version 1977) [Mute, 2022]
Teste - Spatial K [Plus 8, 1992] 
Pan Sonic + Alan Vega - No Home Kings [Blast First, 1997]
23 Skidoo - Mary’s Operation [Fetish, 1982] 
Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - Fragments Of Nothing [DDS, 2020]
Sleazy - Cauchemar Administratif [Tag Out, 2017] 
Craig Leon - Donkeys Bearing Cups [Takoma, 1981]
Mick Harris - Cards [Hed Nod/Empty Light, 2001]
Beau Wanzer - Wick Hunny [LIES, 2018]
Eszaid - Member’s Stand [LIES, 2020]
Lostsoundbytes - Where Am I? [Big Science, 2022]
Low End Activist - Good Question [ESP Institute, 2023] 
Warzou - Trunk Blaster [Big Science, 2023] 
Phreak - Acid On [Logistic, 2005]

"and they're still screaming in the next room"

N10AS Halloween 2023

'Demdike Stare'-inspired collage/mixtape of my own original materials, produced during the month of October (with obviously far too many horror movies on in background!).
Pointillist plunderphonics, spectral distillations, and sub-bass from the neighbor next door...bandwidth trios conjure sound worlds from vinyl graffiti, ambient murmurations, and broken-grid drummings.

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October'

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October' P5

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October' P4

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October' P3

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October' P2

2023-11-07____ris__ibso__ 'Oscillators Made Of October' P1

proto-steppas, montreal sound collage, argentinian concrète, no wave sludge, tape contortions, bristol free dub, smudged guitar pop memories, the freest of free jazz // @n10-as

S.C. Sharma - Dance Music I (recorded in Ahmedabad, India, c. 1969-72) [2023, State51]
Arabie 82 - Caravan [2015, Booma Collective]
Equations Collective - Helicon Sessions (Rabih Beaini Deconstruction) [2022, 99CHANTS]
Nelly Moretto - Composición 9B [1970, MCBsAs]
Demdike Stare - Slang Blade (Excerpt) [2023, DDS]
Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples Of The Moon (Edit) [1967, Nonesuch]
Matmos - In Low Fidelity (Excerpts) [1994, Matmos]
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Fact Or Fiction? [1999, Manifold]
Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist [1981, Cherry Red]
Spectre - Crooked [1995, Wordsound]
Tom Of England - Suspension [2019, LIES]
Jake Muir - Drifter [2018, Sferic]
Marc Leclair vs. Rechenzentrum - Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes: 1er Jour [2004, Mutek_Rec]
Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange Part II (Movement 3) [1973, Survival]

N10AS JANUARY 2024

This week's Map is a special one. Demdike Stare has been a long-time favorite of mine. I have seen them 7 times, more than any other group or musician! 

They recently gave a fantastic 3-hour live performance at Zenner in Berlin, which I was lucky enough to attend. I brought two friends of mine with me, and after the show one of them asked me to put together a playlist of their more percussive, dance-floor oriented work. 

This mix is a version of that playlist: my favorite DDS tracks that feature drums, percussion or that have a rhythmic feel. If you ever have the chance to catch them in your city—go! 

Tracklist:

Demdike Stare - Eulogy
Demdike Stare - Erosion of Mediocrity
Demdike Stare - Hardnoise
Demdike Stare - Know Where to Start
Demdike Stare - Curzon
Demdike Stare - Patchwork
Demdike Stare - Misappropriation
Demdike Stare - Dyslogy
Demdike Stare - Primitive Equations
Demdike Stare - Cracked
Demdike Stare - Pile Up
Demdike Stare - Null Results
Demdike Stare - Hashshashin Chant
Demdike Stare - Animal Style
Demdike Stare - 40 Years Under The Cosh
Demdike Stare - You People Are Fucked
Demdike Stare - Airborne Latency
Demdike Stare - Forest of Evil (Dusk)
Demdike Stare - Bardo Thodol
Demdike Stare - Collision
Demdike Stare - At It Again
 

The Map Is Not the Territory Vol. 9 (Demdike Stare Megamix)

Definition of praxis: action, practice: such as a : exercise or practice of an art, science, or skill. 

Workbooks: “The aim of the artist would not be to instruct the viewer but to give him information. Whether the viewer understands this information is incidental to the artist; he cannot foresee the understanding of all his viewers. He would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloging the results of his premise.”

                                              __ris _ibso_
Sonic Science Fictions | Audio Art | Aural Navigations | Sound Plastics.

Invention, design, crafted, composed experiences for systems of musical generation.

Virtual improvisations, synthesized soundscapes, rhythmic transient electronic hyperrealisms, imaginary six-string curled dimensions, DSP performances, gestured noise, expanded palettes, and miscellaneous conceptual software automatons.

'Loopy C' is Chris R. Gibson.

Transmissions to the aether • des bruits colorés
https://snowsovgethen.com/

Amsterdam-based digital media producer, curator, and record collector. 

I'm going to be uploading one DJ set a week in 2025—give me a follow if you like what you hear, and reach out if you'd like to book me or collaborate.

I'm particularly interested in the deeper side of techno and house, but not at all limited by the constraint of genre. 

Please check out my mix series "The Map Is Not the Territory" to see what I mean by that.

@n10-as / Days Of Steam / Dastgâmachine
neonlichter.dj@gmail.com  // NYC + MTL

2025
06.21 Life On Marz (Chicago)
06.20 Interzone (Lexington)
06.13 Adelaide Hall (Toronto)
06.02 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
05.29 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
05.14 Wavelength (Toronto)
05.10 Cafeteria (Toronto)
04.26 Alphaville (NYC)
03.08 TD Music Hall (Toronto)
03.01 Alphaville (NYC)

2024
12.31 Party World (Montréal)
12.29 BSMT254 (Toronto) 
11.14 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
11.13 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
08.16 Layer05 (Montréal)
06.28 Osmo (Montréal)
06.27 Sans-Soleil (Montréal)
06.23 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 
06.21 Tapestry (Toronto) 
04.28 Sounds Good (Toronto) 
04.27 Standard Time (Toronto) 
02.17 Heatsync (New Haven) 
01.18 Tapestry (Toronto) 

2023
12.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
12.14 Système (Montréal)
11.28 The Lot Radio (NYC)
10.19 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.30 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
09.24 The Little Jerry (Toronto)
09.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.15 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal) 
08.10 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
07.14 Revival (Toronto)
06.07 Système (Montréal)
01.19 Sans Soleil (Montréal)

2022
10.25 Système (Montréal)
09.24 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
08.27 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal)
04.29 Bambi's (Toronto)
03.24 Houndstooth (Toronto)
03.16 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 

2021
12.11 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
09.05 The Little Jerry (Toronto)

2020
03.14 Bambi’s (Toronto)

2019
12.09 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
05.27 Giant Steps (London)
05.25 Ransom Note (London) 
05.23 Rye Wax (London)
03.01 El Rey Theater (Los Angeles)
02.28 Mezzanine (San Francisco)
02.23 Neumos (Seattle)
02.22 Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)
02.21 Imperial (Vancouver)
02.16 Bottom Lounge (Chicago)
02.15 El Club (Detroit)
02.14 Mod Club (Toronto)
02.13 Théâtre Corona (Montréal)
02.10 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.09 Union Stage (Washington DC)
02.08 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.07 Brighton Music Hall (Boston)

2018
05.12 Brilliant Corners (London)

New tracks tagged #demdike stare