For this month’s Digital Sound Residency, Kuboraum welcomes Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman, the iconic voice of Berlin’s deep dub techno, known for his long-standing collaborations with Rhythm & Sound and his unmistakable presence that shaped an entire generation of sound.
 
Merging minimal techno’s hypnotic precision with the spiritual warmth of dub, since the mid-90s Tikiman has been expanding his vocabulary through his solo works and releases under False Tuned, the label he founded in 2019. From the seminal Tikiman Vol. 1 (Kynant Records, 2022) to collaborations alongside Moritz von Oswald, Deadbeat, The Bug, Scion, and Modeselektor, his voice remains one of the most distinctive in contemporary electronic music: weightless yet grounded, melancholic yet full of grace.
 
With “ICE”, Tikiman distills decades of dub exploration into a stripped yet enveloping form. The track moves in slow motion, its soft, warm basslines and swirling delays blooming into a hazy sound field that unfolds like a one-way ticket to a higher dimension.
 
‘ICE’ will be available to download by subscribing to Kuboraum Berlin News.

Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab.

Photo credits:
Dustin Lynn

Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman - ICE

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Motherland

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Ableton Techno Course 📼
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Ableton Techno Course — Track A


Kuboraum Editions is pleased to announce the forthcoming LP ‘McArthur’ by Berlin-based composer and vocalist FRANKIE, also known as Franziska Aigner, and Dominican-American producer Kelman Duran. 
The first single ‘GRAYT’ is out now on all streaming platforms alongside its music video, made in collaboration with Enad Marouf and Margarita Maximova, and starring a constellation of friends and longtime collaborators: Persik, Billy Bultheel, Beatrix Curran, Basyma Saad and Edwin Nasr.

Sometime in 2022, at the beginning of the spring season, FRANKIE and Kelman Duran meet at the Twelve Apostles Church, in the Berlin district of Schöneberg. They were each asked to engage the space’s solemnity, and its reverence, through distinct performances. Their chance encounter, abounding with mutual curiosity towards each other’s practices, smoothened the path for a years-long collaboration, culminating in McArthur, their first joint album. Following a period of exchanging musical fragments and prompts at a distance, Aigner and Duran come together in Athens, and later in Los Angeles, to prepare the stuff and material for the album, slowly developing a body of work informed by shared hauntings, and a commitment towards the disjointed and the residual. Aigner describes her process as writing “into the negative space” of Duran’s beats—filling in, if not invigorating, their thuddings and inflections, but without rearranging the integrity of the whole. The result is an album where time and geography are made elastic, and where sonic improvisations become a site for quiet, and cryptic, articulations of intimacy.
 
Opening with a skeletal Duran beat that intermittently fractures into reggae samples, “GRAYT” emerges as the project’s genesis. Aigner’s vocals linger within the percussive absences, and the track itself gives the impression that it was sculpted out of silence. The accompanying video, made in collaboration with Enad Marouf and Margarita Maximova, summons a constellation of friends and longtime collaborators to perform a choreography of disorientation. The temporary solace of assembly surfaces. 

Text written by Edwin Nasr.

All music by FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner) and Kelman Duran
Trumpet on SLINKY and McArthur - Alex Zhang Hungtai
Piano on BWV 639 - Iris Moldiz
Recording engineer piano on BWV 639 - Sascha Tekale
Mastering - Guiseppe Tillieci
Album text - Edwin Nasr
Album picture - James Holmes III
Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab
Artwork by Cecilia Troiani
 
Thanks to Lawrence Forsythe

MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nlYw4hYQOg

Release Date: January 30th 2026

Kuboraum Editions
Köpenicker Str. 96, 10179 Berlin

 

FRANKIE & Kelman Duran - GRAYT [RAUM007]

Ableton Techno Course — Track B

For the latest edition of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, we welcome UK-born, Berlin-based DJ, producer, and curator Significant Other with ‘Lust On Your Shoulders’, a new work created together with Rosabella Allen.

Operating at the fringes of contemporary electronic music, Significant Other has long cultivated a liminal, emotionally charged sound world where ambient drift, dub-infused shadows, and rougher club sonics fold into one another. First emerging from the Brooklyn underground, where he co-founded the influential event series and label Club Night Club, he became known as a covert curatorial force behind a new wave of late-2010s dance music. His releases, scattered across key UK imprints and often devoid of any biographical framing, positioned him as an enigmatic presence navigating the more skewed, atmospheric ends of modern electronic production.

With his 2021 debut album Residuum on Manchester’s cult label YOUTH, he stepped further from the dancefloor and into a spectral, textural register: a full-length exploring tension, release, and catharsis in slow motion. In the years since, his work, and his DJ sets alike, has only grown more difficult to define, slipping fluidly between introspection and propulsion, structure and dissolution, presence and disappearance.

In 2024 he launched Pain Management, a record label and Berlin event series dedicated to outsider sound and anti-dancefloor expression, spoken word, hellish dub, avant-garde electronics “body music for restless minds.” 'Lust On Your Shoulders' extends this spirit, channeling a tender but volatile emotional charge amplified by Rosabella Allen’s vocal presence, pushing the project into new narrative and sensorial territory.

Rosabella Allen is a Manchester-based artist whose work spans poetry, visual art, and experimental music. Her work explores the complexities of love, the quiet beauty in the self-contained narratives we carry as individuals and the collective energy emerging from club spaces. 
Across both her solo practice and as vocalist for the Manchester/Glasgow-based trio Shell Company, her distinctive prose and heart-sleeve vocals have drifted above a range of electronic and post-rock influenced musical styles. Collaborations include entries to Rainy Miller’s stellar Fixed Abode outlet and work alongside fellow ‘Northern Gothic’ outsiders such as Richie Culver & LINTD.

Arriving ahead of a major long-form work slated for 2026, this Kuboraum Sound Residency offers an early, intimate signal of what is to come: a deepening of the project’s textural language, its emotional bandwidth, and its ongoing search for new forms of suspended, fugue-state listening.

‘Lust On Your Shoulders’ will be available to download by subscribing to Kuboraum Berlin News.

Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci at Enisslab.

Significant Other feat. Rosabella Allen - Lust On Your Shoulders

We’re pleased to announce “SLINKY”, the second single from Frankie & Kelman Duran’s forthcoming album McArthur, set to release in both digital and vinyl on January 30th via Kuboraum Editions.
A diaristic centerpiece of the record, SLINKY unravels through cicada stems, piano, and the ghostlike swell of a children’s choir, before opening into trumpet interjections by Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches). Chaotic yet luminous, the track channels an ecstatic excess reminiscent of free-jazz improvisation, marking one of the album’s most vivid emotional peaks.

Album credits:
All music by FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner) and Kelman Duran
Trumpet on SLINKY and McArthur - Alex Zhang Hungtai
Piano on BWV 639 - Iris Moldiz
Recording engineer piano on BWV 639 - Sascha Tekale
Mastering - Guiseppe Tillieci
Album text - Edwin Nasr
Album picture - James Holmes III
Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab
Artwork by Cecilia Troiani

Thanks to Lawrence Forsythe

Release Date: January 30th 2026

Kuboraum Editions
Köpenicker Str. 96, 10179 Berlin

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