Back on the kneelers with renewed belief, Kinlaw & Franco Franco announce their third and most precise album yet 
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Out October 3 on Drowned By Locals ⺂ now available for pre-order. 

The original ATC prodigal sons return with 11 hot-kneelers for your mental: cyberpunk prophetics, surveillance-state paranoia, and rusted gothic futurism, all wrapped in their signature industrial-trappist beats and future-concrète prangers.

First single Air Loom Gang, out now.

Featuring the pop-confessional Pitstop 2024, a revamp of feudal anthem Crocs on the Plough, and the long-fermented chamber-wave of the title track. For the faithful and the uninitiated alike ⺂ Faith Elsewhere might just be their best yet.

Pre-order vinyl or digital.

https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/faith-elsewhere

Vinyl edition includes a lyric zine tucked inside the sleeve ⼗ an exclusive vinyl-only bonus track.

releases October 3, 2025

All music written and performed by Kinlaw & Franco Franco
with additional vocals from Katy Sargent (Track 3) and Georgia Cusack (Track 10)
Bass by Luke Thornton (Track 3)
Mastered by Benjamin Oregaskes at Raw Audio UK
Recorded in Bristol 2021-2024

Album artwork by Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Embroidery of the prayer kneeler by Skye Turner
Press release text by Matt Light

DBL41LP

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Faith Elsewhere

Kinlaw & Franco Franco - Air Loom Gang

DJ DIE SOON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND SHARES ‘UNFINISHED’ FT. KIKI HITOMI & FRANCO FRANCO
‘MY BROTHEL THE WIND’ IS SET FOR RELEASE ON 25TH JULY

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming record 'My Brothel The Wind' takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi.

Out today, first single ‘Unfinished' is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught:

"I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy - these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON

'My Brothel The Wind' shows DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura’s obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, 'My Brothel The Wind' is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. Film director Hiroo Tanaka’s visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album’s narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world.  

Mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum Studio, Berlin (except B2, B3)
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin

Cover photography by Hiroo Tanaka/DOGGYTASTES
Photography assistant Joana Schurr
Font by Daisuke Imamura

For Tina,Miyu,Kaito

© + ℗ Drowned By Locals 2025 
DBL36LP

DJ DIE SOON - Unfinished ft. Kiki Hitomi, Franco Franco

Coping Mechanism

Atlanta rap outsider and Vienna producer xato celebrate the release of their new EP “Who was expecting this?” with an hour of big rap tracks and noisy club edits.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/645ar-xato-w-dj-loser-ludwig-wandinger-brodinski-23rd-may-2025

645AR & xato w/ DJ LOSER, Ludwig Wandinger & Brodinski 230525

Dead Loop, is a meditation on risk, memory, and the haunting legacy of forbidden movement(s). The titles of the two tracks—1972 and 1977—refer to when the infamous gymnastic bars move, the ‘Korbut Flip’, was performed for the first (and last) time. Deemed so perilous the flip had to be banned from international competition following its first execution at the 1972 Munich Olympics by 17-year-old Soviet gold medallist, Olga Korbut. In 1977, another Soviet gymnast, Elena Mukhina, modified the risky flip with an additional twist… cementing the move’s mythological status with an additional re-iteration.

Over two brief sides of tape, Flora Yin Wong narrates the myth of the forbidden Korbut Flip with elongated, processed, and looped layers of the kemençe (an Eastern Mediterranean stringed instrument found in Turkey, Greece, and Iran). The strings of the kemençe are bowed, plucked and struck, echoing the gymnast’s own uncanny motions, cycles, and steps on and around the bars. Flora Yin Wong manipulates the sounds through various pedals and GRM Tools to craft an unpredictable diptych of haunted soundscapes. Recorded in London, this music is immersive and tense, brimming with a sense of suspended risk, much like the gymnast tumbling around the bars.

Limited Edition tape. Pro Dubbed at Monotype. Printed at L'automatica letterpress in Barcelona on 100 year old Heidelberg machines. Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.

Out now via Paralaxe Editions (@paralaxe-editions) https://florayinwong.bandcamp.com/album/dead-loop


Dead Loop - 1972 [Preview Clip]

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Drawn from the reflections of Detroit based producer Infant, ‘radial blur’ weaves super-processed atmospherics with smudged and dubbed touches. 

Drifting between the swamp and the late night haze, the EP conjures intimate domestic scenes and transcendent, otherworldly ecosystems.

Out digitally now on Joel Arcane & Addison’s own Oscilla Sound.

https://oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/lmnl003-radial-blur

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Infant - notch [Oscilla Sound]

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Dilian & Kuthi Jin @ Kiosk Radio 15.06.2025

DEAR016
K7 (PRE-ORDER) // DIGI

Produced by @7oulou
Tracks 1-4 mixed by Yohann Henry
Tracks 5-9 mixed by Lorenzo Targhetta
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork by Manon Michèle

Zulu - like this

SUN TO CLOSE

"Illuminotecnica is a slacker’s exploration of ecstatic techniques in sound, echoing the free-form drift of elemental flows across the motherboard. Celestial data streams. Mineral rhythms loop in cycles within cycles. A glitch pulses at the heart of the sun while the sky turns green.

What reveals itself through divergent, simultaneous patterns?
What do we hear when we let the aural flood loose?

Set it free—let it spiral inside out. From the cracked shell, new forms emerge: thought-forms, feel-forms, signal-forms shaped by frequencies we don’t yet know how to decode. Shapes that shimmer at the edge of language. Emotions without names. Visions that flicker in the periphery—half-seen, half-sensed—like memories from a future that hasn’t happened yet."

Music by Cortex of Light
Artwork by Francesco Tosini
Design by Nicolò Pellarin
Mastered at Tapewave Studio
Distributed by Boomkat

Wax: boomkat.com/products/illuminotecnica

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