Belgian/Iraqi band Use Knife releases ‘Sowieso F***ed’, ‘F***ed على أي حال’ or ‘F***ed anyway’. A cynical "c'est-la-vie" anthem, set to a heavy 95 BPM beat and a disarray of fucked up samples & sounds, about ten little wanderers who wander kilometers from home trying to belong. 

But home is where the heart is. And the House will never share its wealth.

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in my Heart) did the mix once more and Youniss Ahamad deconstructed his live-visuals into distorted video loops to accompany this sing-along.

‘Sowieso F***ed’ is a digital-only release, but comes with a T-shirt for you to wear, depicting a great design by graphic designer Farah Fayyad, so you can spread the message even further. You can pre-order the t-shirt until Nov 5.

Head over to this link to listen, watch, wear & buy: https://linktr.ee/useknife

The release was initiated before the brutal reality of the genocide happening in Gaza. Now, the cynical message must make way for solidarity with the Palestinian people. The profits made from this release and the accompanying t-shirt will therefore go to the Gaza Crisis Appeal of Oxfam International.

Palestinian Radio alHara has made a sound program with information about Palestine: ‘Until Liberation, learn Palestine’. You can find the files called “Learning Palestine _ 12 hours track” here: https://linktr.ee/radioalhara

And the band played on,
towards a climax of disruptive noise.

Use Knife is Stef Heeren, Kwinten Mordijck & Saif Al-Qaissy

Buy on bandcamp

Sowieso F***ed

I went digging in a recording shop in Karrada in Baghdad, home of funky synths and electronic music in the night. Anyways, left with 16 CD's and a Chrysler branded CD booklet. Tonight I got the itch so this is the super rough first mix out of that booklet.

TRACKLIST: 

* جوبيات ٢ - TRACK 9 - Chobi Songs Part 2  
* HUDA AL BASRI - GHARIBAT AL ROOH - هدى البصري - غريبة الروح 
* Ahmed Al-Maslawi - Ma Nskt - أحمد المصلاوي -  ما نسكت  
* Ghizlan x Saadi Al-Hill i- Mo7awara - Track 5 - غزلان و سعدي الحلي - محاورة - التراك الخامس  
* جوبيات ٢ - Track 6 - Chobi Songs Part 2  
* BUSHRA - SOADA  بشرى - سودة 
* GHIZLAN - SAM7INI - غزلان - سامحيني 
* AHMED AL MASLAWI - KAFI SAFR - أحمد المصلاوي - كافي سفر 
* HASHMIYA AHMED - BYA WIJH - هاشمية أحمد - بيا وجه 
* MASLAWIYAT - LAYLA JANNANTINI - مصلاويات - ليللى جننتيني 
* RAJAA AL BASRI - EL WLD NAM - رجاء البصري - الولد نام 
* GHIZLAN - HAY ALLAH - غزلان - حي الله 
* MAYYADA AHMED - BEYYA SHLOWN - ميادة أحمد - بيه شلون 
* SAJDA OBEID - 3AYIN YA DOCTOR - ساجدة عبيد - عاين يا دكتور 
* SUZAN AL TAMIMI - MAJBOREEN - سوزان التميمي - مجبورين 
* MUNA AL ABDULLA - SADGOONI - منى العبدالله - صدقوني

The Karrada Mix

To mark the release of their latest EP "Endless Sunday'' on the Berlin-based record label Thisbe Recordings, Parisian duo Nomenklatür embarks us on a one hour journey across some of their latest productions as well as their hot picks of the moment, crossing genres that define their sound : Synthpop, New Wave and EBM. This is followed by two more DJ sets by Krasnodar-based Rambal Cochet, aka Volta Cab, who produced remixes of each of the two singles of Nomenklatür´s EP, as well as a back-to-back set by Thisbe Recordings´Pyrame and Andrew Claristidge.

Tracklist:

1. Tulioxi - Another Gang Of Desperates (Latido) 
2. Vongold - Pleasure Cinema (Roam Recordings) 
3. Nomenklatür - Explain to Me (Rambal Cochet´s Turtle Trance Mix) (Thisbe Recordings)
4. Pyrame - So Sprach Psychedelia (Skelesys Remix) (Thisbe Recordings) - UPCOMING 
5. Radial Gaze - Tetra Seeds (Thisbe Recordinngs) - UPCOMING 
6. Acid Washed & Arnaud Rebotini - Brandtaucher (Thisbe Recordings) 
7. Use Knife - Coupe d'État (Viernulvier Records) 
8. Krishna Goineau feat. MCL - La Forgeron (Curses Edit) (italo Moderni)
9. Jerry Bouthier & Plaisir De France - Eccitatissimo (Outtake's Punk Walk Mix) (Thisbe Recordings) 
10. Mogg & Naudascher - Moon Unit Part 3 (Supersoul) 
11. Drexciya - Lost Vessel (Tresor) 

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6:00 – 7:00pm

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Endless Sunday Session w/ Pyrame + Andrew Claristidge - 04.12.22

Tracklist:

1. Safe With Me - Colin Stetson
2. You Are In A Clearing - James Holden
3. Ghosts Story - Haress
4. Easyjet - 700 Bliss
5. Anesthesia - Mary Halvorson
6. Or Things Maybe Dropping - Lia Kohl
7. Last In Line - John Bennett
8. Nuclear - Tanya Tagaq
9. The Case - Ashtray Navigations
10. Always There - Batu
11. Ed Wana Ed - Use Knife
12. Infinito - Mike Patton
13. Lucky Day Overture - Tom Waits
14. Body And Soul - Jimmy Smith
15. Les Fiançailles - Gavin Bryars
16. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - Oft Denk' Ich, Sie Sind Nur Ausgegangen - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Karl Böhm: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
17. Keep Punching Joe - Daniel Johnston
18. Autumn Shadows - Om Unit
19. Sanities - John Cale

2024 4 Aug

SMART RIDER PRINCIPLES 020 THE SOUNDS OF UNWORLDING

FREE PALESTINE

TRACKLIST:

The Red Krayola - “Born In Flames” - Singles - Drag City

Rapoon - “Bol Baya” - Vernal Crossing - self-released

Use Knife - “To Feed the Gentry feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Rabih Beaini edit)” - Peace Carnival - Morphine Records

Tadi feat. DJKR - “Sevin Diamond Lines” - Seven Diamond Lines - Offen Music

Todd Rundgren - “Miracle in the Bazaar” - A Capella - Warner Bros. Records

PC Worship - “Buried Wish” - Buried Wish - Northern Spy Records

stravsky & pelè - “in this country” - Change in You - stroom.tv

Tapan - “Europa (12” Version)” - Europa - Malka Tuti

Francillia - “Nou Tout Se Moún” - Haiti (1936-1937) Vol. 1:  Treasures from the Lomax Archive - Lomax Archive

Clara Buffey & Leo Peralta - “Canto de ordeñe (COURAGE)” - Al Alba - LLLCLUB

Banha Da Cobra - “La Maldita Felicidad” - Lava Love - Discrepant

Leo - “Banal” - Dissipating Heavily - YOUTH

Use Knife - “Coupe d’état (Muqata’a مقاطعة remix)” - Peace Carnival - Morphine Records

Gaiko - “Millenium” - Gaiko - Nous'klaer Audio

PC Worship - “Lifeless Rain on an Empty Moon” - Buried Wish - Northern Spy Records

Byard Lancaster - “Over the Rainbow” - It’s Not Up to Us - Vortex Records

JA feat. Donato Dozzy - “Sorella di confine” - Sorella de confine - RUBBER

Leo - “Jade Floors” - Dissipating Heavily - YOUTH

The Saul Polinice, Louis & Ciceron Marseille Group - “Danabala Wèdo Tokan Koulèv (Danbala Wèdo, Sign of the Snake)” - Haiti (1936-1937) Vol. 1:  Treasures from the Lomax Archive - Lomax Archive

model home - “no white flags” - mongrel - self-released

Jako Maron - “DEUS ex Maloya” - Mahavélouz - Nyege Nyege Tapes

Mary Lou Williams - “A Fungus Amungus” - Mary Lou Williams - Smithsonian Folkways Records

JA feat. Donato Dozzy - “Era vitale” - Sorella de confine - RUBBER

Traxman Sinjin Hawke Bobby Skillz - “Kill Da DJ” - Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3 - Planet Mu

Mindstate - “Same Habits (feat Verbz)” - Same Habits EP - ThirtyOne Recordings

Matmos - “Why?” - Return To Archive - Smithsonian Folkways Records

Radioactive Man - “Colourful Language” - Jam Out The Kicks - Asking For Trouble

Tolouse Low Trax - “A Song And A Photo Novela (Simo Cell 'Fabulous Santa' Edit) ” - Kiosque Versions - Bureau B

Industrial Sponge - “Waves” - Industrial Sponge - Concentric Circles

Prettybwoy - “Siamang Call” - Tokyo Ice Age - SVBKVLT

Jako Maron - “1 Piton 3 Filaos” - Mahavélouz - Nyege Nyege Tapes


SRP020


Episode 14 of 20 Seconds Radio on Archipel Stations Community Radio, 88.4 Berlin/90.7 Potsdam.

20 Seconds editors Daniel Melfi and Timothy Isherwood present the magazine’s breadth of coverage in sonic shapes not possible in print, meandering through paths of medium-specific experimentation.

Special broadcast live from Bologna, Italy.

Tracklist:
Big Hands – Fuoco Lento (With Bint Mbareh & Ottomani Parker (Thauma Marionette, 2025)
ffaux – Tusk (TONGUES, Alles, 2024)
NO HAY BANDA/Steven Kazuo Takasugi – Scene V: “The Drowning” (Il Teatro Rosso, No Hay Banda, 2025)
Oï les Ox – Cinéma du Look (remix 1) (Oï les Ox x Jan Jelinek, Constructive, 2025)
Roxane Desjardins, Nour Symon – J’espère être absolute (Je suis calme et enragé-e, Ambiances Magnétiques, 2025)
Yves De Mey – Gdansk (Force over Area, Totalism, 2025)
Riccardo La Foresta – 20230704_102400 (ZERO,999..., OOH-sounds, 2025)
Use Knife – État Coupable feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (État Coupable, VIERNULLVIER Records, 2025)
Red Snapper – Sirocco (Barb and Feather, Lo-Recordings, 2025)
Rafael Anton Isirarri – Red Moon Tide feat. KMRU (Façadisms, Black Knoll Editions, 2024)
Lara Jones – Side 1 (Excerpt) (Dome, Lo-Recordings, 2024)

20 Seconds Radio - Episode 14 (1/4/25) on Archipel Stations

Al Wootton brings his signature blend of experimental dub and percussive rhythms to this spacious, slow-burning mix built for the early hours.

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Crack Mix 607: Al Wootton

🌿 Monstera Occulta – Bruzz Ice Summer Edition S02E47
📻 100% vinyl set | July 27, 2025

A one-hour journey across psychedelic textures, retro-futurist folk, and shadowy synth-driven sounds — all on vinyl.

Starting with the dreamy Anatolian psychedelia of Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, the fuzzed-out grooves of Al-Qasar, and the cosmopolitan charm of Belgium’s Gaisha, the set flows into the warm, electrified revivalism of Altın Gün and Gaye Su Akyol.

Midway, we dive into more percussive and edgy terrain with Lalalar and Electric Jalaba, before shifting into darker frequencies: Use Knife, She Past Away, Selofan, and Skemer close the hour with haunting, body-moving post-punk and darkwave.

A slow-burning progression from sunlit psychedelia to nocturnal club rituals.

Monstera Occulta - Bruzz Ice Summer Edition - S02E47 - 27.07.2025

Taken from SBKT073: ABADIR - Kitbashing
Release date: 15th October 2025

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Conceived as part of an A/V show with visual artist Nicolò Cervello, ‘Kitbashing’ marks ABADIR’s third album for SVBKVLT.

A growing number of people spend an extensive amount of time watching, scrolling, liking, commenting on and sharing content, whilst at the same time feeding a constant stream of personal data to social media platforms. Social media can be fun and informative, or draining and dark. Either way, their algorithms are purposefully designed to lock users in a continuous state of scrolling. The more time spent online, the more desires, interests and emotions are fed into the algorithm for consumerist ends and reality is reduced to a timeline of curated aesthetics.

Using audio snippets from reels, suggested posts, and sponsored ads, sound objects are cut, micro-edited and meshed together into a collage. Tension is built gradually before falling into a release. Rhythms keep expanding and contracting, simulating the pace of random scrolling on mobile devices. ‘Kitbashing’ is an attempt to break the algorithm: subverting the dynamics by feeding on the algorithm instead of only feeding it.

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Concept by Nicolò Cervello and Rami Abadir
Artwork by Nicolò Cervello
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Kitbashing

ABADIR - Kicks and Clickbaits

trans au chaud

"Gesù è palestinese e combatte nella resistenza"

One hour of South Italian regional Christmas-themed music and traditional seasonal repertoires. The mix features Neapolitan classic genres such as Canzone Napoletana and Sceneggiata, along with musical traditions from Puglia, Campania, Sicilia, and Calabria, such as zampogna (bagpipe) music, traditional ballads, and recited poetry.

Tracklist: 

Sergio Bruni - ‘O Zampugnaro ‘Nnammurato
Mario Merola - Lacreme Napulitane
Mario Trevi - Buon Natale
Tony Bruni - Natale ‘e Carcerato
Mario Abbate - Lettera ‘e Natale
Strina Apriglianese registrata durante le Feste di fine anno del 1996
Luigi Nigro - Pastorale (Zampogna grande a 6 canne)
Silvio Carrino - Ie Vogghie Natalu [recited poetry]
NCCP - Quanno Nascette Ninno
Benedetto Miceli, Salvatore Modica - Salve Regina (Novena di natale)
Giovanna Nosarti - Frigge ancora l'olio di quei Natali [recited poetry]
Patrizio - ‘A Madunnella D’’E Zampugnare
Pietro Miceli - Novena di Natale
Otello Profazio - Giuseppe e Maria a Betlemme
La Strina (Lungro, Cosenza, Calabria)
Nando Citarella - Pastorale Siciliana
Damiano Bevilacqua, Nando Zappia - Zampogna & Tamburello
Antonio Davida - Alla Zampognara
Antonio Valente, Ernesto Fusco - Novena di Natale
Cantori di Corigliano d’Otranto - La strina salentina

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara ('Lu Natalu Adde Ste? / Christmas Mix'), 8th December 2025

Use Knife is the exciting result of the raw synergy between Iraqi vocalist and percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy—who fled war-torn Iraq—and Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren, known for their passion for analog synths and organic wind instrumentation. 

The band tell a necessary tale of freedom, responsibility and the gulf between the Eastern and Western mindset. Even the instrumentation itself reflects this constant friction; intuitively muddling distorted industrial textures and jerky EBM pulses with brittle Iraqi rhythms and tonalities, Use Knife devise their own distinct harmony against the dissonant global backdrop. 

Debut album 'The Shedding of Skin' (2022) received critical acclaim by The Quietus, Mixmag and Knack Focus, a.o.. They played at festivals such as Le Guess Who?, Sonic City, Videodroom, Grauzone, Botanique, Worm, Wrong Fest, Roadburn, Suoni Per Il Populo, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and We Are Open a.o.

Additionally, ‘Peace Carnival’ was released on Morphine Records —a 10” remix EP featuring tracks from the debut album reinterpreted by Muqata’a مقاطعة, Zoë Mc Pherson, and Rabih Beaini.

Their new album ‘État Coupable’ (March 2025) is mixed by Jerusalem in My Heart's Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, who also created the contrasting ambient 2nd part of the title track, while New York based engineer Heba Kadry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicolás Jaar) handles the mastering. Nihiloxica’s drummer Spooky-J, also laid down a post punk beat on first single ‘Freedom, Asshole’.

Youniss Ahamad crafted Use Knife’s distinct visual language, evoking rawness through direct and distorted imagery, and developed scenography and visuals that truly enhance their live show, creating “an all-embracing vortex that allows those experiencing it to plunge, headfirst, into a hypnotic state that veers between a dreamlike trance and a sensual workout.” (The Quietus)

Their radio show ‘Feeding The Gentry’ airs monthly on Palestinian Radio Alhara.

Sowieso F***ed

Use Knife

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