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After the last two weeks' high-octane entries, @slipdrifta arrives to RA Radio with an odyssean wend through stellar textures, humming ambience, technological soundscapes and flickers of glitch.

Across live sets and a number of self-published productions, s.drift has cultivated an uncategorisable sound that slinks between ambient, sound-collage and the variegated rhythms of dance. Yet his music never settles satisfied into any of these and implies always something exceeding the confinement of a label and beyond the bounds of writing.

It's still difficult to describe both Cal's tunes and the way he mixes, where every echoic cymbal, every thrum of bass, every shift in pattern manages to come across laden with an unearthly significance. One thing Cal and I connected over was videogames, and there's this idea in game studies about the technological sublime... that the trick of sublimity in a game is that it always appears to exceed what it shows - a game does not provide you an entire world, it intimates the imagination that the world one inhabits could be entire. There's something similar, albeit with the difference that there's no illusion here, in Cal's mix. A universe is always present, if only as half-dreamt conjectures. There are suggestions of mechanism and the discordance of industry, wisps of dislocated voice and the embers of disco and hardcore and dub. But it's always a peripheral universe, there being something innately charitable in the attitude to music... a universe as-yet undiscerned, a whole lifeworld built of shards into which only the listener's intrusion can clarify some personal coherence. A music that creates a canvas atop which the paints are particles and tinctures, oblique spaces into which the listener might build.

It's like there's a secret in the music only s.drift knows. But this secrecy allures rather than excludes. It adumbrates a planetscape alive and coruscating, an ecosystem of ooze constituting an invitation to the tangibility of fantasy. And because of the skill with which Cal can conjure worlds, fantasy is here simply the given of reality. 

tracklist:

Strategy - A Distant Destination
Pendant - NMQ-HYT
Obi Uto - a5 cyclone version
Igor Dyachenko - TimeStretch
JJ+JS - CRX
Davis Galvin - Humidity 14
O Yuki Conjugate - Black Magic Box
Pavel Milyakov - Mondpfad
Disjecta - Smokehead
dub - Electricity in mind
J. Albert - la flor
effekt - wiki
Shinichi Atobe - World 4
Unt - Grids
Ghost Dubs - Wired Version
exael - choeo3
ELIZA B.C. - B1
James Bangura - Monterrey
Daniel Stefanik - b1_dambala_experience_001
AEM Rhythm-Cascade - Volnushka
Quatremont College - Safari
JEMAPUR - Frictize 412
Jeffre Cantu-Ledesma - Non-person
Ivory Black - Blood Oath
African-American Sound Recordings - Gauze
Kassir feat. Shumopeleng - Tommy III
d.towards - a+r atmo
CA2+ - Stop Mixing Tracks Like This
AQ*8 - traffic gem
Echoplex - Taking Off
Kero X Tetzzie - Trench Mesh
bookworms - disco demo
ccctyyy - C_RA_001
iokera (RIP) - asphodel fields
cypha - Xzirow Command
Hesaitix - Anticrime
Eszaid - Chained
xtclvr - deep scanning
Conna Haraway - 1702

artwork by @frasier77777 // addditional art and typesetting by @manicpixiedreamgirl555

Realist Alive Radio 004: s.drift

Js Donny - Death Folk LP - OUT NOV. 18

Almost two years after the ‘BnN’ debut-EP as the Xtnded quartet, Brussels-based artist Js Donny returns solo for their new record ‘Death Folk’. Leaving the delicate fluttering of the butterfly for the infinite swirl of a ghost tornado, the bassist for Marseilles poectic-sludge band Donna Candy drops a minimalist yet profoundly intimate album, where everything turns black.

Co-released by Bamboo Shows (France), 29Speedway (New York) and chrüsimüsi records (Switzerland), the album contains six acoustic ballads between doom-folk and soft metal; songs that could have been composed in a dusty attic. Written solely with electronic nylon guitar and muffled bass lines, the music leaves the field clear for Js Donny’s unique voice, skillfully oscillating between soft scream, brooding whispers and liturgical choirs.

Recorded, co-mixed and mastered by Anotyne Nouel at Sound Love Studio. Ornamented with the deadly drawing of Victoire Mandement.

A limited edition of 300 smoke-clear vinyl will be released alongside the album on November 18, 2025.

Order for Europe https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com 
Order for USA https://29speedway1.bandcamp.com
Order for Switzerland https://chruesimuesi-records.bandcamp.com

Credits:
Music by Js Donny,
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Anotyne Nouel at Sound Love Studio,
Artworks by Victoire Mandement,
Design by Js Donny.

Js Donny - 02. Not Like That [BSLP012 / 29S009 / CMR017]

Dorian Minus (excerpt)

"Illuminotecnica is a slacker’s exploration of ecstatic techniques in sound, echoing the free-form drift of elemental flows across the motherboard. Celestial data streams. Mineral rhythms loop in cycles within cycles. A glitch pulses at the heart of the sun while the sky turns green.

What reveals itself through divergent, simultaneous patterns?
What do we hear when we let the aural flood loose?

Set it free—let it spiral inside out. From the cracked shell, new forms emerge: thought-forms, feel-forms, signal-forms shaped by frequencies we don’t yet know how to decode. Shapes that shimmer at the edge of language. Emotions without names. Visions that flicker in the periphery—half-seen, half-sensed—like memories from a future that hasn’t happened yet."

Music by Cortex of Light
Artwork by Francesco Tosini
Design by Nicolò Pellarin
Mastered at Tapewave Studio
Distributed by Boomkat

Wax: boomkat.com/products/illuminotecnica

Nestek

Luther a Ukrainian selector and founder of label Iriy Records(@iriyrecords). He specializes in discovering the darker side of post-club music and its intersection with bass, industriall and noise music.
For Secrete Revelaed Luther has gathered a set dark hip-hop tracks which represent the emotional spectrum associated with the coming of the late Fall season - from immersive depression to disorienting rage. The tracks collected draw a correspondence between these emotional states and social positions and thoughts. In many ways this set recorded in times of unstable electricity in Kyiv intends to cretate a layered sonic visualizations of the negative pathos modern Autumn's cause in people around the Western world.
The set collects tracks from USA, Europe and Ukraine (including some unreleased tracks) that can be broadly considered noise and industrial rap, with flickers of witch house.

illustrator - @snizhanac designer - @s_brajchuk

tracklist 

Luther a Ukrainian selector and founder of label Iriy Records(@iriyrecords). He specializes in discovering the darker side of post-club music and its intersection with bass, industriall and noise music.
For Secrete Revelaed Luther has gathered a set dark hip-hop tracks which represent the emotional spectrum associated with the coming of the late Fall season - from immersive depression to disorienting rage. The tracks collected draw a correspondence between these emotional states and social positions and thoughts. In many ways this set recorded in times of unstable electricity in Kyiv intends to cretate a layered sonic visualizations of the negative pathos modern Autumn's cause in people around the Western world.
The set collects tracks from USA, Europe and Ukraine (including some unreleased tracks) that can be broadly considered noise and industrial rap, with flickers of witch house.

Socials: 

https://soundcloud.com/luther_k
https://soundcloud.com/iriyrecords

revealing secrets w/ Luther (20/10/25)

Bitches come and go brah, but you know I stay.