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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

Fall In Love

LUCID DREAMER

Stargate

Teleported

Teaser of my new track with @paigeelizauk 💗 Out 18th October on @utopiaworldwide. Pre-Save the track here: https://ada.lnk.to/MissDopamine

Flava D & Paige Eliza - Miss Dopamine (TEASER)

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Wheele

"Recorded around 2013 using the CR8000, 808, and SH101"
Full streaming of "I Need A Vacation" track, heavy distorted basslines and vocals swirling around your head, reverberated and dirty polished sounds over the beat  that take it all and give it back to you.

Artist: @bwanz
Track: "I Need A Vacation"
Title: "Busted And Bamboozled"
Label: @ophism
Format: Vinyl 140 grams + Cassette + Digital
Release Date: November 16, 2020
Pre-order: https://ophism.bandcamp.com/album/busted-and-bamboozled

Premiere #121 Beau Wanzer - I Need A Vacation [OPSM07]

The Mechatronica Aid EP II digital compilation is out now, alongside new limited edition sweatshirt and tee. 

Buy here: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/aid-ep-2

If you’re currently lucky to be in a position to spare some funds, please consider making a charitable donation in your community to help support individuals and organizations impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

Should you still have any additional good fortune left, we have put together a second Aid EP, to help support the artists in our community and on our label, currently under financial pressure due to the massive amount of DJ gig and live set cancellations within our scene - and to keep the lights on in our collective, which is heavily dependent on income from event production.

The Aid EP II additionally enables us to provide a bit of work for our mastering engineer, also a DJ and producer, financially impacted by event cancellations.

All sales will be split 50/50 between the artists and ourselves, after production costs have been recouped.

Stay healthy out there - and if you have the means, we encourage you to find ways to reach out and support those affected in your local communities.

In case you missed it, here is the first Aid EP from April 2020: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/aid-ep

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Mechatronica Aid EP II

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The Fly Of The Phoenix Over The Natraj (remix)

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.