if you still believe

I was in Birmingham International train station, boiling hot after being used to Glasgow's wet sunless summers. I filled up a waterbottle and the electronic advert next to the dispenser was emitting this electronic drone. The music you hear is taken from that 20 second recording. 

It was a boring, uncanny moment, where I was vacantly processing our worsening climate emergency and how amazing it is that things can just keep going on.  

The title comes from Judge Hehir's sentencing of the Whole Truth Five in July 2024 stating that “whether or not we are facing the end of the world is neither here nor there" and that humanity “coming to a fiery end” is irrelevant". A shocking denial of reality and punitive measure in face of very real global catastrophe. And a deeply resonant instance of society's inability to see what's coming.

'facing the end of the world is neither here nor there'

Unlimited Velocity (2013)

Elaine Howley - Hold Me In A New Way

An intimate sonic portrait of Odesa, a Ukrainian city along the Black Sea. Produced by Ivan Samokrutkin, with support from the podcast Here There Be Dragons, this densely layered sound collage weaves together raw and haunting field recordings (audio documents of air raid sirens, the hum of a restless city, the distant murmur of the sea, snatches of conversation, and mechanical pulses), remixed local sound art, and processed samples of acoustic instruments (bayan, kalimba, flute, tambourine, psaltery, and more) to create a shifting and fractured soundscape of a city marked by war, tension and stillness. 

Many thanks to Ivan Samokrutkin, Jess Myers, Adriene Lilly and Olivia Bradley-Skill. 

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HERE THERE BE DRAGONS - ODES[S]A

excess content

Image (1983-1998)

Nisemono No Uta (2025 Remastered)

Unseen lane toward the deferral breath
Fog unspools, hums like it knows me
Straining to perceive what I have encoded
And they leave anyway
Countless doors to exit

Tracing the edges of each shade
Arise from the entrails of circuitry vain
Withhold in a corridor - ornaments of the dim ache

Patina Lush is an electronic composer from Austin, Texas, rooted in tactile emotion. His music is vivid and hallucinatory — shaped by layered textures, shifting patterns, and a pulse that bends between clarity and dream.

'Mist Unseen' is a sonata of phantoms: somatic grace drifting through vapor. The pieces move like shifting fog — elusive, dissolving, yet leaving traces that return unexpectedly, almost as if hummed back from memory. It unfolds in tension — between what is traced and what has not yet taken form — a work that moves like memory, half-revealed and ever-becoming.

Mist Unseen

Patina Lush - Patchouli Sunrise

Mixed by Sablemik (@sablemik) in May 2025, this is a diverse, non-dance collection of tracks he’s been enjoying on his own lately.

Fringe Area

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