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Boris Rogowski – The Darkness of Future Past
(out on piano and coffee records on November 7, 2025)

Jonas Burgwinkel—drums
Viktorija Kukule—vocals
Roland Muenchow—flute
Boris Rogowski—keyboards, (bass) guitar, percussion, programming, vocals
David Schuette—cello
Isabelle Seemann—vocals

Press info:
Somehow, Boris Rogowski’s The Darkness of Future Past manages to go from Renaissance and Baroque influences and minimalist piano pieces via Ambient all the way to arena-sized pop music. It has no right to work, but it works perfectly. I don’t know how.
If I had only one word to describe its general mood, I would call it haunting. And the album itself is haunted, too, by the ghosts of the past, of classical composers (Orlando DiLasso, Eric Satie and Alfred Schnittke explicitly, many others lurk in the shadows) and more recent musical specters. It’s called The Darkness of Future Past, and yes, that’s a Twin Peaks reference… but let’s not make too much of it, there are no real connections (I think!) except for a general love of mystery, darkness and beauty.

In contrast to Rogowski’s 2023 album The Waste Land that was largely defined by a good amount of classical rigor, consistent chamber instrumentation and a complete lack of vocals, The Darkness of Future Past is almost loose: We have long, winding instrumental pieces that straddle Ambient (The Past, Like a Strange Bird), Minimalism (The Bloom and the Flutter) and Jazz noir (the title piece). They are humming with sounds and melodies that always seem in a state of either synthesis or decay, giving way to one another or sticking around in the form of eerie echo loops that build up a dreamlike musical structure always on the verge
of collapsing into itself.
Those long-form soundscapes, some of which feature ominous spoken Journal Entries, alternate with solo piano pieces that sound like at least three different instruments—but were, in fact, all recorded with an old upright built in 1906 by some regal German manufacture. The audaciously titled Gymnopedie No. 4 wears its influence on its sleeve—and delivers on its promise: Rogowski’s love, respect and understanding of the original works of Eric Satie shine through in every note. Similarly, the other piano pieces, from the tiptoeing Sleeping Dogs to the dreamy, improvisational One Lonely Autoresponder Message, feel a bit like memory palaces—reminiscent of music that has always been around, but at the same time very much their own beasts.
And then, of course, we have the songs: Nothing Wrong is strikingly beautiful, its sparse musical arrangement serving as the perfect bed for Rogowski’s falsetto and the ghostly choir backing it. breatheINbreatheOUT is downright scary, like a field recording of some strange initiation rite: The words ‘breathe in, breathe out, it’s all right/mankind is no longer your kind’ are delivered in a moody croon that seems to channel the later Scott Walker.
And then, just when you think you have finally figured out how this album works, it leaves you with Them!, a monolithic sound colossus that begins as a shoegaze-y electro pop song and develops over 6 minutes into an arena-sized hymn with an otherworldly female voice lamenting ‘What a lonely world’ over and over. Rogowski did much of the work on The Darkness of Future Past in a desert cabin near Joshua Tree—maybe he passed Coachella on his way back; that, at least, would be a good explanation of the sound of Them!

There is a very clear and distinct consciousness of the past, and there are projections into the future that are as nebulous as they are frightening. The Darkness of Future Past has the power to conjure up mysteries, to shed just the right amount of light on them and keep us intrigued—without ever giving them up or serving us easy explanations. The beauty of the music itself remains a secret, one that Boris Rogowski as its composer seems hell-bent on protecting. After all, no-one needs to know who killed Laura Palmer.

Journal Entry #2—The Bloom and the Flutter : DiLasso, Schnittke, Goats, Ghosts

The Giant Part 4

Listen to "El Desenfreno" by lusiæn taken from "Rumbo Difuso" out on November 19th via nodo label

Pre-order: https://nodolabel.bandcamp.com/album/rumbo-difuso

lusiæn (Luciano Coria) is an Argentinian sound artist and landscape architecture student whose practice navigates the relationship between territory and listening. His work unfolds in abstract sonorities and emotional terrains, shaped through field recordings, altered vocal fragments, and asynchronous rhythmic structures.

Rumbo Difuso traces a drift across shifting states of tension and stillness. Its movement evokes moments of inner conflict—almost martial in their intensity—that dissolve into psychic overflow. At the core lies a secret, something hidden yet sustaining, revealed gradually as the journey progresses. Emotions escalate toward a breaking point, only to circle back and redraw themselves from another angle, proposing new ways of inhabiting the same space.

The EP builds a minimal yet layered landscape: processed and sung vocal lines meet fractured rhythmic assemblages, interwoven with textures captured from the environment. Conceived from a live set performed in August 2024 at the El Desenfreno series curated by writer and poet Enzo Amarillo, Rumbo Difuso emerges as both document and reconfiguration—an aural architecture of memory, intensity, and release. 

Links:
lusiæn
https://soundcloud.com/lusiaen
nodo label
https://nodolabel.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/nodolabel
https://soundcloud.com/nodolabel

Rumbo Difuso

pre-order / bandcamp

lusiæn - El Desenfreno (nodolabel)

SYGMATURE 1 is a compilation of modern atmospheric music, a milestone of radio.syg.ma’s year of existence. Twenty two international artists, musicians and producers who contributed to the radio took part in this release.

Featured artists present different styles and approaches to recording soundscapes, inspired by experimental ambient, field recordings, electroacoustic, musique concrète and low-fi electronics. Sounds and atmospheres they create range from futuristic, distorted or high-pitched to more meditative and somewhat esoteric.

This is the first release in series of compilations curated by radio.syg.ma and made possible due to contributions and donations. High-quality audio downloads and donation links are available at: https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/sygmature-1

Credits:
Artwork by Art Crime 
Perila — Internal Shift mastered by Perila 
Naemi — Amber Floe (part 2) mastered by Naemi 
Dmitri Børn — Wary Rider mastered by Ilya Bitekhtin 
Other tracks mastered by Alexandr Pustynskiy

BANDCAMP

Broshuda — Der Hund Den Alle Lieben

Taken from Primitive World - The Revolt of Aphrodite LP/Download [ELP048] - out 20/03/2020

• Crafty sci-fi minimalism and rude broken beats from Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis (Primitive World)
• In/directly inspired by the “bawdy, acerbic”, forgotten ‘60s sci-fi novels of Lawrence Durrell
• Cut at D&M, Berlin. Cover painting by Daniel John Willis, Photo by Sam Willis, design by Alessio Natalizia
 
Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis turns cues from forgotten English sci-fi author Lawrence Durell into bouts of taut, fractious, and probing funk on his sophomore LP, ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’

Following a similar process that was applied to the visual cues of overlooked British constructivist Marlow Moss in his 2018 debut album ‘White On White’, and recent lysergic rescoring of Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (INCLUDE LINK HERE TO THE FMJ RELEASE ON THE SITE PERHAPS?) Sam Willis aka Primitive World employs a strategy of in/direct references to Durrell’s seminal ’60s sci-fi diptych ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’ - comprising the novels ’Tunc’ and ‘Nunquam’ - in an absorbing reimagining of its scenes, rendered in a mix of glitching electronic shrapnel, craftily disrupted UK club rhythms, and stuttering gremlin vocaloids. 

The original books’ themes of “Nietzchean psycho-sexual satire”, and their acerbic, bawdy, densely allusive text, serve to push Primitive World toward more complex drum programming/editing and a finer spectrum of timbres in order to best transpose the stories into music. Set against a backdrop of the May 1968 general strike in Paris, the books address notions of multiplicity and contingency, and a preoccupation with structure and “cause and effect” that Primitive World reflects in the music’s mazy narration and his poetic embrace of literary/musical license. 

Where modern electronic music too often arrives at the same aesthetic conclusions inspired by iconic work from William Gibson or Asimov, then Durrell’s influence provides something very refreshing to the playful and absorbingly otherworldly nature of ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’. Using the same palette as found on his ‘White On White LP’ - PPG Wave, Kurzweil K250, Emulator 4 and Lexicon 224 - Primitive World’s familiarity with the set-up leads to a finer manipulation of form throughout the album. Oscillating between the Alva Noto-esque minimalism of ‘All This Vulgar Data’, and the cubist UKFunky rhythms in ‘Iolanthe Dances’ or Dego-like broken beats in ‘Skins Plastered With White Lead’, to end up in the curdled electronic sensuality on ’The Foetus Of a Love Song’, Primitive World’s 2nd album offers deftly imaginative and playful solutions to the homogeneity of modern electronic music’s all-too-often blinkered dreams.

Primitive World - Ioanthe Dances [ELP048]

DJ LOSTBOI - JOIN ME (RAW)
MAJA RATJKE - BREATHE
PÉTRA - LANDES (NICO NIQUO REMIX)
WAVES AT ARALIA CHOCHLAKI, NISYROS, SEPTEMBER, 2018
ALEXI BARRIS - 6P77E8
LOVE SPIRALS DOWNWARDS - SUNSET BELL
HARON - CAVERNE
JU CA - BALLARD LAKE
GROUPER - HOLDING
PHILIP CORNER - THIRD GYMNOPEDIE (ERIK SATIE)
JOHANN JOHANNSSON - MANDY LOVE THEME
BURIAL - COME DOWN TO US INTRO / RIVAL DEALER OUTRO
MALIBU - CROSSES (JOSE GONZALES COVER)
ULLA - I THINK MY TEARS HAVE BECOME GOOD
HTRK - MORE TO ENJOY

LOS ANGELES, MARCH, 2020

53:09

ROTTEN HIGHWAY MIX

sarah davachi : perfumes i
linda perhacs : hey, who really cares
dj lostboi : l.t.b.
lyra pramuk : witness
okkyung lee : the crow flew after yi sang
jenny vhal : bonus material
maggi payne : shimmer
ellen fullman : swingen
sheila chandra : la sagesse (women, i’m calling you)
vashti bunyan : glow worms
ctm & jura : journal
alice coltrane : krishna krishna
lucy railton - for j.r.
klein : enough is enough
laurie spiegel : finding voice
esther lamneck & roberto fabbriciani : winds of the heart 1
cosey fanni tutti : ritual awakening
françoise hardy : suzanne
joni mitchell - california

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Noods Radio I: Racine

Part of the Threads*Reverie TAKEOVER

KKBBXX- DISSOCIATIVE STATES

Exploring dream-like headspaces and inner thoughts in this hour long mix. Opening with an excerpt of an unreleased original soundpiece, this ambient mix was carefully put together to take you on a journey far away from your current realities. Heavy in its mood, you will hear unconventional vocals, stacks of synths, loads of experimentation and a whole lot of emotions.

Listen to Threads -> www.threadsradio.com

Kkbbxx (Threads*Reverie) - 31-Jul-20

09112020.

Incoming CSS071 Mix and Feature from experimental artist, choreographer, and composer Colin Self. Colin is residing in New York and Berlin where he creates a wide range of music and performance pieces designed to expand consciousness, trouble binaries, and play with the boundaries of perception, reaching a broad range of communities using voices, bodies, and computers as tools to interface with biological and technological software.

This mix features acoustic and electronic sounds with focuses 
on nature and human relations, theatrical ambiance with diverse sonic textures throughout. Presenting a ritualistic, and meditative narrative that transcends listeners to a beautiful world Colin creates with many genres of music combined together. 

Read full interview here: 
https://cultivatedsound.com/071-Colin-Self

Cultivated Sound Sessions - CSS071: Colin Self [Lughnasadh Mix]

Colin Self

noosa:
Abandoned buildings, broken promises,
Blinding snowstorms, crushing waves, —
Digital glitches, and chaos, —
Underneath, the melancholy
of loss, and decay.
Yet somewhere, there is a time after us.

kotaerecords.com/projects/gleb-gl…b-2020-teriberka

A new event in the Field Recording Labs series for sound artists and musicians working with the sounds of the environments. The third release of the Laboratory is an expedition to a fishing village on the shores of the Barents Sea from February 3 to 5, 2020. The sounds of the endless Arctic space and the whisper of the tundra at the edge of the Earth in front of the Arctic Ocean.

CURATORS
— Idea, implementation — Gleb Glonti — sound artist, curator, general producer of the Kotä music company, and Experimental Music and Art (EMA) Expo.
— Local curator and guide — Slava Krasnov — musician and author of the electroacoustic project Jasnazima.

HOSTS
Fridaymilk, independent project and curating group.
fridaymilk.com
fieldreclab.com

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Новое событие серии Лабораторий полевых записей для саунд артистов и музыкантов, работающих со звуками окружающей среды. Третий релиз Лаборатории — это экспедиция в суровый рыбацкий поселок на берегу Баренцева моря с 3 по 5 февраля 2020. Звуки бескрайнего арктического пространства и шепот тундры на краю Земли перед лицом Северного Ледовитого океана.

Кураторы лаборатории:
— Идея, реализация — Глеб Глонти — звуковой художник, куратор, генеральный продюсер музыкальной компании Kotä и Experimental Music and Art (EMA) Expo.
— Локальный куратор и гид проекта — Слава Краснов — музыкант и автор электроакустического проекта Jasnazima.

Организаторы лаборатории:
Независимая проектная и кураторская группа Фрайдеймилк.
fridaymilk.com
fieldreclab.com

Credits
Music produced by Joonas Parviainen, Slava Krasnov, Alla Burakova, Dmitry Gorbas, Gleb Glonti
Mastered by Mikhail Myasoedov
Curated by Gleb Glonti
Photo by Slava Krasnov

Field Recording Lab 2020 Teriberka

noosa — raunioina

1 - Charly Garcia -  Andan [La Hija De La Lagrima] Reverse [Katzen Edit]
2 - Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby (Double Touch Remix) 
3 - Christian Lцffler - Ronda [Cercle Records]
4 - Chris Domingo, Mariner & Mariner + Domingo - Low Life [Stellar Fountain]
5 - Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (QuiQui Remix) [Katzen Edit]
6 - Travertia - Utro Na Zemle [Forestrip Music]
7 - Ben Böhmer feat. Romain Garcia - Cappadocia - Extended Mix [Cercle Records]
8 - KiloHeart - Antantrika (Orig Mix) [DeepClass Records]
9 - Kamilo Sanclemente, Velveta, Giovanny Aparicio - Forgiven (Original Mix) [Plattenbank]
10 - Dustin Nantais - New Era (Original Mix) [Where The Heart Is]
11 - Dustin Nantais - A Feeling [Where The Heart Is]
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Katzen - Timeless Melodies #10

@ignacio-torne
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Ignacio Torne - Dreamers Live Stream - 28-10-20

Bringing you sounds from the pixelated dust, join Daniel Weil on a trip through different genres from new beat to indie dance. 
Enjoy!

Follow Daniel Weil:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/danielweil
IG: @danielweil
FB: https://www.facebook.com/danielweil555

Cover Design by Alvaro Manzo
mayanwarrior.mx

Daniel Weil - Mayan Warrior - Virtual Burning Man 2020

For more info visit: https://bit.ly/34Ysm6G

https://soundcloud.com/steven-lira

Mix info

EGNU.151 Steven Lira

Two years after his last incursion on the label, Mark Hawkins is back on Houndstooth with his latest release, ‘Whole New Internet Game(Feat. Donnell Knox)’. Partially produced with Kalamazoo techno legend Donnell Knox aka D-Knox who is also featured on vocals on the title track, the release is a fitting tribute to the early 90's Detroit house sound, updated with a thicker, more contemporary sounding production aesthetic.

"Whole New Internet Game", and "Reprise" are the result of a recording session late in December 2019, when Knox was visiting Hawkins in his studio in Berlin, the former with Knox waxing lyrical about the state of the modern age we live in, which in recent times strikes an even more relevant chord, and the latter, with Knox on co-production duties, being an exercise in making a whole track out of an intro, lush synth pads taking the focus away from the drums, at least for the first few minutes.

"Emerald" and "Sixth" reach back even further into Hawkins’ production history, both featuring swung house drums, and jazzed out chord structures produced using a borrowed Roland D-50 synthesizer, one of the classic digital synths of the late 90's, which has been featured on many a Swing or R&B cut of that period. All four tracks galvanise Hawkins’ new steps forward as a production powerhouse who is not to be underestimated.

Whole New Internet Game (Feat. Donnell Knox)

PREMIERE : Mark Hawkins - Whole New Internet Game (Feat. Donnell Knox)

順手牽羊³⁵⁶ Mixtape
 
Playlist:
15.352863, 76.491568
15.375090, 76.445294
13.106019, 77.581197
12.854716, 74.833325
24.581284, 73.682357
12.966661, 77.635312
15.347398, 76.432403
15.353758, 76.472696
12.980843, 77.597575
26.487930, 74.552422
15.352863, 76.491568
15.375090, 76.445294
12.975565, 77.623928
12.854716, 74.833325
12.980843, 77.597575
18.982889, 72.825414
12.964568, 77.574350
12.966661, 77.635312
15.347398, 76.432403
26.456075, 74.628110
27.709527, 85.309853
13.198690, 77.707049
12.854716, 74.833325
13.008483, 77.568015
27.708624, 85.320705
12.430159, 75.059447

a present for 76666 from @maruf_satar
Maruf Satar:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgIINds53c


Thanks to Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and Indian Sonic
Research Organisation for giving STRWÜÜ the opportunity to catch these
sounds.

@strwueue

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Connecting local communities across the world and empowering people to express themselves through music, discussion and art.

Kkbbxx (Threads*Reverie) - 31-Jul-20

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