Drowned By Locals marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume digital anthology and a limited printed manifesto, Black Circle, written by Ian Bruner and published by Drowned By Public.

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Rather than serving as a retrospective, the anthology traces the label’s evolving sound, its expanding cohort of misfits, and its unfolding trajectory. Across the three volumes, DBL assembles new works, long-buried material, and contributions from artists connected to the label through releases, radio, dormant ideas, or future intentions. Taken together, they form a portrait of the label’s instinctive curatorial logic — pairing worlds that should not, by any reasonable measure, coexist.

Release Schedule 
Volume I: Pornographic-Time, Vol. I — The Pornographic-Tantalus — November 28, 2025 
Volume II: Pornographic-Time, Vol. II — The Continuous Present — December 19, 2025 
Volume III: Pornographic-Time, Vol. III — The Horizonless Interface — January 30, 2026

All volumes draw their titles and thematic direction from Black Circle. The manifesto describes “pornographic-time” as a condition in which desire is continuously activated but never fulfilled. It’s the experience of being pulled outward by images, demands, and expectations faster than one can return to oneself. You remain visible, but rarely seen.

Each volume adopts a different facet of this state.

Volume I — The Pornographic-Tantalus
“Each gesture toward conclusion makes the object recede. Tantalus stands beneath bowed fruit trees, but as she moves to consume, the branch bends away. With each pang of thirst, the water ebbs further.”

Volume II — The Continuous Present
“Because of its accelerated pace, pornographic-time both appears and vanishes instantly—a cybernetic loop, a continuous present. Overfull and empty. Life collapses into micro-moments that disappear as soon as they arrive.”

Volume III — The Horizonless Interface
“Both the targeted individual and the pornographic-Tantalus occupy the time-space of the horizonless interface, hived in algorithmic neurological pathways and pathologies, resulting in a bare life layered with compulsive and neurotic loops of behavior.”

Black Circle expands these ideas into print, combining Bruner’s text with visual contributions from more than twenty artists. Released in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies, it will be available independently or bundled with the anniversary T-shirt. All physical editions include the full three-volume digital anthology.

releases November 28, 2025

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin
Artwork & design by Giovanni Murolo
Curation by Laith Demashqieh
Manifesto: Black Circle — text by Ian Bruner (published by Drowned By Public, printed edition: hand-numbered run of 100 copies)

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Pornographic-Time, Vol. I: The Pornographic-Tantalus

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Sam Bell is a musician and visual artist from the south coast of the UK. Sam has long been a part of the scene, starting labels such as videogamemusic and oob, as well as having a show on NTS. Last year, he released album of imagined minecraft music for the label quern. Following his tradition of quietly self-releasing music and his love for video games, he released ‘hey’ in August 2024. Weaving through video game OSTs and piano roll tutorials, Sam Bell manipulates and stretches audio into a sound all his own. Now, we will be re-releasing this beautiful project on Portraiture! 

100% of profits from this release will be split between Refugee Action, supporting refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK, & Hope Not Hate, a charity tackling the rise of organised far-right movements and the issues and policies responsible.

www.refugee-action.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk

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written and produced by @joshreim
artwork: texture404
instagram.com/texture404

𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗹𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗲 is the sonic documentation of a 29 year creative pursuit to prove one universal truth: logic is finite, with a conclusion in any system. This mixtape represents the grueling, iterative process within the crucible of experimentation that leads directly to the final successful proof. Each track is a self contained exploration, exhausting every conceivable musical metric as the composer relentlessly tweaks and refines the system. Ideaslut charts it’s journey to the ultimate achievement: a state of supreme clarity and elegant coherence. Witness where rigorous logic and precise feeling meet perfect aesthetic form.

𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘄.

tracklist:
01. ...
02. Il
03. Cold^Fountain
04. Animels (Stripped)
05. Ideaslut
06. mileX
07. CHRIST2
08. Emo {Flipped}
09. xXxchange
10. 0.O0

free download: recorere.bandcamp.com/album/ideaslut-mixtape

℗ 2025 re.core
© 2025 Josh Reim

Ideaslut (mixtape)

Josh Reim - Ideaslut (mixtape)

Second single from from an album forthcoming on MirrorWorld.

@famoustex
@mirrorworld-129984733

What is it, you think, that you're doing? Care to explain, bub? Eh? Bud? Hm? Toots? Explain yourself, make clear to me what it could possibly be that you are enacting. I can't quite tell. Not a deficiency on my part or a paralysing incapacity for perception I'm just curious. No, seriously, I want to know! What is it? Is it famous tex's 'sinusa', forthcoming on MirrorWorld, premiered by Madjestic Kasual? Is that it? It is that? It's that? That's what it is? It's? It's.

famous tex - sinusa [MK PREMIERE]

From 'Bodiless Surf Broken', out November 21st on All Centre

YOU MUST BUY: https://endlessmow.bandcamp.com/album/bodiless-surf-broken

@endless_mow
@all-centre-504822953

It's all just drudgery isn't it? Just an endless, grimly bobbing armada of grey lethargically closing in on the last remaining, pathetically minuscule land mass of your imagination. A rapidly shrinking island. It's over, bro. You're done, babe. Here's a life raft: Endless Mow's 'Bodiless Surf Broken', the title track to an EP forthcoming on All Centre, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. Perhaps there's hope xx

you must buy

Endless Mow - Bodiless Surf Broken [MK PREMIERE]

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.

From the host: _"This month's show is less of an intricate mix type of thing and more of a "here's some cool new music I'm into these days and want to share with you" type of thing.  For the second hour, we continue our streak of goated guest mixes with a mix by the legendary S280F."_ 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-1st-december-2025

ZULI W/ S280F 011225

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welcome to my advent calendar !
today @michaelenwright and I split the mix for a snowy tale

artwork is “The snow queen” by Edmund Dulac

TRACKLIST
Dan Joseph - Opening from Electroacoustic Works x The Shortest Day - The Christmas Revels
Mikey - ??
Mikey - Psyche
Mikey - Sparrow
Mikey - Vertex
Miley Cyrus - the climb (Mikey remix)

鈴木慶一 & 田中宏和 -  Winters : Snowman 
Oda Tilset - Stalactites and bats
Cornelius - DESIGN NO HITO
Trevor Jones - Notting Hill
Samuel Organ - Paris (Voicenote)
Oklou - dance 2

20251213

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