What if sonic practice were not only artistic expression, but a mode of critical reflection — a way to generate knowledge about the positionality of both producer and listener?
To explore this, I invited the artists I interviewed to contribute sound samples — fragments from their production process — to build a collective sound “database.” With this samples gbw9, Melag0m, Kurzschluss, Mahée and HAUSVRAU produced soundpieces - which are released in the format of this compilation.
Here, sound is activated as a method: both a tool of knowledge and a relational medium. The resulting sample pack reflects diverse sonic practices and acts as a collaborative, affective archive.

Infestation as Sonic Resistance
I use the term infestation to describe how certain practices — deemed disruptive by dominant standards — disturb normative structures, much like weeds invading a manicured garden. Infestation stands for persistent, collective disruptions that challenge the status quo.
This concept ties into anti-capitalist modes of music production. By embracing collaboration, shared authorship, and relationality, the sample pack resists neoliberal values of individualism and competition. It becomes a sonic commons: a space for co-creation, not extraction.
INFESTATIONcan be thought of as a harmful seed, a seed that grows subtly, slowly. The sounds creep in sideways — rough edges, broken rhythms, distorted textures. Infestation is when sounds start growing in the cracks. Cultivated through collaboration, Infestation values disturbance, tension, connection, shared creation and finding new paths.
Some artists in this compilation are boycotting Spotify due to its investments in the arms industry. In solidarity, we are releasing the project exclusively via alternative platforms like SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

your seeds make gardens of doubt

77Yolan - wasteland ( ultra slowed )

flowing 3 44 bpm take 1 91125

Derivation #1

Our masters are known by the color of their pants. When they pass we must exclaim "Koo!" and squat in complete deference and obeisance. 

Collaboration with Admiral Krank and DM 12 (https://soundcloud.com/dm-12).

Guitars by Admiral Krank. All other instruments and sounds and sound warpings by DM 12.

Koo! (Collab With DM 12)

With huge respect to Freddie King & Magic Sam!
Hope you enjoy this!
Thanks for listening.

San-Ho-Zay (Freddie King cover) [for stereo]

Mystical Return

«Montmartre». Op.86.

original composition by @enigmacurry 
Metamorphic Test https://soundcloud.com/enigmacurry/metamorphic-test
lyric, voice, bell-y-noise, cover design @myrhyum
voice @lijel @lijelcollaborations 

This song was inspired by Enigma Curry's composition & a conversation between lijel & myrh regarding an upcoming interview for Via De Acceso Radio show @viadeacceso 

check this remix by Çois Agver that first released on Via De Acceso Radio show's Awareness of Femininessence Vol. 1 
https://soundcloud.com/viadeacceso/first-myrcury-lijel-cois-agver-remix

cover photo is a still shot of lijel's Butoh dance performance
http://lijel.com/
background layer is an fx'd excerpt of a fractal art by Enigma Curry 


FIRST
__________
oh, I say...
you're number one

from nothing
something

don't let them tell you -
you're number one

don't let them tell you -
you're number one

first
first
from nothing
first
something

oh don't let them tell you!
Your number One! First.

Vía de Acceso

First  | myrcury Feat. a touch of L I J E L

Ulf Rickmann - Drums/Electronics
Thomas Sander - Electronics/Bass

SAUERTEIG

Ughten is collaboration between two friends Chase Rockwell and Electric Supply Station.
A friendship spanning 25 years built on music, dancing and confusing the minds of people we meet.
Ughten is created by the simple melodies and ideas crafted by Electric Supply Station being torn apart and reimagined by Chase Rockwell.
Collaboration with no limits