This is the second track on my new 12" on Traum  - Metaphysical EP, out 4th April. It's a sort of broken/electronica influenced track, which you may have heard before on my Modus and Contortions live sets. It's pretty noisey I admit, but hopefully in a way that carries the energy of the track, rather than just exploding peoples eardrums!

Heresy (Clip)

Cologne-Dusseldorf, Germany Europe World Kosmos

Coldness Sunroof Daniel Miller Remix

https://soundcloud.com/shkema
https://soundcloud.com/hardfist
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🔊 https://youtu.be/TpFYct1soyM

Vilnius based producer Shkema makes weird music for weird people. He spent ages with the analog synthesizers, looking for that right tone color. Then he added guitar sounds and various percussion. His strange and off voice component came last. He stays up late into the night, finding peace in his mind, imagining stories and creating music around it. 


That’s how Room of Men Eaters was born: a collection of absurd short stories and invented words coming straight out of his mind, whose aim is to draw you into the twists and turns of the night.


« Tas Malonumas »
Lithuanian word 
Def: meaning That Pleasure
Exemple: conversation between a young,  inexperienced person and an elderly person who’s near death's door. The old one is telling the young one how life is an unceasing search for pleasure. 
Track: takes the form of a mental stroll that takes you far, far away.


« Room of Men Eaters »
Human expression of cannibalism
Def: absurd situation in which men and women eat each other in a room
Track: the contrast between the absurdity of the situation and the apparent normality of speech told by the vocoded voice of Shkema is just astonishing. 


« Sarka Syrkaza »
From the future
Def: meaning “super sarcasm”
Exemple: one day you wake up in the morning and you feel that something within you has changed. All seems to be nonsense and you start to look at everything through the grey glasses of sarcasm. One might look enjoying oneself, but in reality this is an extremely draining state of mind.
Track: musical expression of that state of mind


« Je n’aime pas les fêtes » 
World expression
Def: parties are boring
Track: Shkema remix of his friend Afrodelic is a wacky version that contrasts French lyrics talking about how disastrous parties feel with a beat that just makes you want to dance.

Tracklist: 

1 - Shkema - Tas Malonumas
2 - Shkema - Room Of Men Eaters
3 - Shkema - Sarka Syrkaza
4 - Afrodelic - Je n'aime pas les fêtes (Shkema remix)

PREMIERE: Shkema - Tas Malonumas [Hard Fist]

Stream

Zvarotny Kvitok (feat. Rusia Šukiurava)

Kostas Maskalides - Decadence

Music composed, arranged, performed and mastered by Kostas Maskalides.
BPM: 104

- Synthesizers -
Pads: Diva (U-he), Pigments (Arturia)
Strings: Augmented Strings (Arturia), The Legend (Synapse Audio)
Organ: B3 (Arturia)
Electric Piano: Stage-73 (Arturia)
Percussion: Parsec (Reason Studios), The Legend (Synapse Audio), Pigments (Arturia)
Arpeggiated Synth: Jun-6 (Arturia)
Lead: The Legend (Synapse Audio)
Keys: Pigments (Arturia)

Soundscape

Decadence

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/lOgxkkJhRZ4

Glimpse 1434 (Sep 4 2025)

Ondo Fudd – The Fludd

When someone wakes up in this condition, they can never tell how long they have been going for; the night? the weekend? the whole week? is this just a perpetual state? It's hard to even know whether to talk in the first, second, or even third person, such as the depth of blankness in the soul... Such as the Depth of Haze. 
Optimo affiliate and Night of the Jaguar honcho Mr TC makes a splash on Hard Fist for their first release of 2019 and Khidja has managed to get his hands on the stems starting the year with a bang!
Gay Haze boasts heady live bass and flute are the elements which Khidja have brought out of the awesome original which punctuate the eastern vibe which slowly builds as the faint hiss of vocal haunts the back channels. As the track builds so does the hiss and the echo and the menace and the sense of dread and urgency. 
Andrei Rusu and Florentin Tudor have had an exceptional 2018 as has Thomas Lea Clarke, and this is the dream start to the next year... no time to reflect, no time to make resolutions. Here we go again!

https://soundcloud.com/mr_tc_glasgow
https://soundcloud.com/poor-relatives
https://soundcloud.com/hardfist

PREMIERE | MR TC - Gay Haze (Khidja Remix) [Hard Fist] 2018

San Francisco-based label Dionysian Mysteries readies a 14-track compilation of electro, acid and gritty basslines. Listen to the chaotic atmospheres of Rico Casazza’s ‘Polar Vortex’ now… 

More info: https://dj-m.ag/2Ldojuu

Premiere: Rico Casazza ‘Polar Vortex’

ANDI OTTO & F.S.BLUMM: ENTANGLELAND
LP out via @pingipung April 2020
Artwork by Total Eclipse Of The Heart.
https://andiottofsblumm.bandcamp.com/album/entangleland

@f-s-blumm enters Andi Otto's studio with a bag of strings and a mission to create quirky, peaceful soundscapes...

Entangleland

LP/download

Andi Otto & F.S.Blumm: Yukiyama Lost Beat

Here is a remix I did for the young yet promising label SECONDE. Be sure to check out the full EP: http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/112762 which comprises two tracks by Rafael Murillo and Raphael Laredo.
I hope you enjoy what you hear :)


Muredo (Valentin Stip Remix)

Valentin Stip