from @glitch-dot-cool enfant terrible to unbound crooner, there are few more implacable, earnest and radically shifting entities in electronic music than Copenhagen’s @zack-christ - The 2024 EP 𐘲(𐘨)𐚎𐘲𐝥𐃀𐘡𐘴𐝂 evinced an archly disruptive approach to glitch music, gutting to the rubble of computational noise any expectations of a lofty ambience + waveform post-expressionism dyad, only to interject those same ambient climaxes whenever it was they would most sublimely strip a person to a soul. Then turned up this February’s Underbearing. Underbearing is miraculous. At times a confessional and exultant pop record, at others destructing any expectable structures of glitch and noise into a tableaux of sounds and shapes beyond categorization.

Zack’s mix is a mirror of the mind that produces this music. Contiguous are, and linked by an unquestionable emotional logic, chittering, stunted glitch and metal, grunge and chamber pop. Little is more important here than an openness of feeling. Genericity, associability, taxonomical means by which to synopsize an artist are disintegrated in the face sheerly of expression. Sequentiality, excusatory entrancement, the disappearance of the conductor into the comfiture of predictability - any such notions are evaporated in the reappearance of the conductor as an immediacy. I cannot not see the sparkle of an apotheosis of possibility because I am shown at every turn a music that is not simply sufficient but essentially contributive to an entirety of irreplicable beauty. And that is again where the conductor disappears - into the music that says all that is before these words and into all the afters they should never need to say. And something emerges like a person, disappearing and reappearing. Agleam in their disappearance and reappearance, and agleam in the states between.

As a final word, Zack wrote of the show -

With this mix I have attepted to curate:
The highest level of underground culture
Music that brings me joy
A few of my own tunes (including a little teaser at the end for my next record that drops on 19th September)

Tracklist:

zack christ - untitled
death's dynamic shroud - Just To Be Needed
AIHVHIA - Don't Get High Hopes
Chevron - Kingdom
Kaiji - Derming (Fm Shade Extract)
Tyondai Braxton - J. City
ZA! - Somos Todos
Untold - Sing a Love Song
Zhea Erose - NOXYLILITH
Mátyás Wettl - É
Thy Slaughter - O Fortuna
Vladislav Delay - Rakkine
Yvyy - Sommer Tempest
Tettix Hexer - Den Tetris der ikke aer en mus fanger ingen Rrrelguitar (zack christ remix)
Tettix Hexer, zack christ - Down The Gore Lore (KLASKET MIX)
zack christ - ID-WIP
Rustie - Black Ice Mudra
Napalm Death - You Suffer
OTTO VON SCHIRACH - Triangles (Live in Tokyo)
Schock Terapi - bonusbarn af sumfundet
Aidan Baker - Closure Axiom
Kaiji - MJUI
zack christ - MCDONALDS (feat. Feather Mountain)
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album

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Realist Alive Radio 016: zack christ

This ones a hurter from that baby old laptop, early doors from back in the early day. But now it's about 10 years on time to play. We lost scraps over time, lost layers off my jacket lost bits of my mind, jittered at a high level, jittered very high freq, big Char socking it off its time we lock in once again time after time, day after day, new layers to this soil new layers to this clay, it's time #rinsers

random beach house 2016

Duft node, anatomy of the joke part three, whats the relationship between comedy and bass sounds, whats the relationship between rascal and rhythm, whats the meaning of all this?

fatalist. s [PARSE THE PARSEL ROUTINE]

A bold icon ticker... icons flashing past in lines, 2 by 2, bright colours and they're running along... A gulping rock shouter crosses and runs toward you passing through you... Bunning to dust wells to dust. run the ticket

aids t odust 2

Moms Veins (vip for mom's birthday)

first bass music in a minute. i still feel like i lost it. cant really make what i used to. perhaps i should embrace the washed-ness

Untitled project - 2025-Sep-01_3

LICKITY GRIT

cover art by:
@shibarimusic

tracks by:
@uvi7283
@vawmusic
@compligtd
@230official
@ballung
@shibarimusic
@breitband
@goldenfurnituremusic
@acantunofficial
@starsmoke
@dakha

acant - stomata

co-founder of hyperglitch pioneers @glitch-dot-cool | @soup_lab is a producer based in Detroit. soup’s work has been coterminous with the development of hyperglitch, over a pair of EPs, live sets, and a number of singles and remixes, continually delineating and redrawing the possibilities of the genre. Across upwards of a decade of production, soup’s music has been persistently cutting-edge and persistent in its articulation of a sublimity readily available when computational tools become simultaneous with the shattered mouthing of experience.

One of the most beautiful things about soup’s Realist mix is its demarcation of hyperglitch as a glisteringly intertextual music. With glitch as a basis - and its tenets of emotive centrality and crystallisation via the systemic glitch - flickerings of all else become tinged with poetic importance. Touches of dubstep, future garage, caged tones reminiscent of French house. When glitch occurs it intimates alterity, some secretive crackling in perceived perfectibility. The fissure shoulders a humanity when it enters into cooperation with expression. The expression does not enter our world only as disruption, but a reformulation of the significance of what is broken apart and what is after broken. So when these other musics flicker, they do so not with nostalgia nor a parodic wink, but as composites of an overarching articulation of selfhood within the disrupt.

Many of these writings seem weekly to refer to potentialities, half-stoppered yet unstoppered voices - dubieties of hauntology and its unimaginative ahistoricity. soup’s mix is immediate. It does not disguise its urgency. Where it reappropriates, it colours with an exigency of feeling. It is heavenly straightaway and that itself is an adjuration to the radicality of beauty in the breakability of the at-hand.

tracklist:
0:00  soup - ID
0:27  soup - wind channels
2:07  soup x azura - ID
3:22  soup x azura - ID
4:48  soup - Diamond Eater
6:30  soup x azura - ID
8:00  Grape Milk - Sing in the Bathroom (soup remix)
10:30 soup - memorycore
13:33 Ghost Factory - It Will Be Okay. We Can Walk Through This Forest Together.
15:00 soup - 11111
17:30 soup - self creates self
19:30 soup - gasoline flipper
22:45 soup - ID
24:00 soup - ID
25:10 soup - ID
28:00 soup - 6666

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Realist Alive Radio 022: soup

i am waiting around to die

:: OVERTHOUGHT LP
:: FREE DL
: shouts to Music Squad / NHF
: shouts to Spence
: shouts to Mum and Dad
: shouts to #FFF
:: s a f e

https://soundcloud.com/gadmandubs

Modular [feat. Gadmandubs] [Overthought LP]

Think Twice