Dijit
Dijit is the stage name of the SWANA music producer Hashem L Kelesh, an electronic musician who is redefining cool without trying too hard. Stumbling into the music world by accident, juggling knobs and wires in a cluttered bedroom in Egypt’s surreal capital that inevitably inspired the unique, mashed up sound of his tunes, Dijit […]
Pliiant
From the Scottish Ampoule Records crew, Pliiant makes beautifully diverse electronic music that deeply integrates an amazing amount of influences, ranging from the deeper end of 90s and 2000s electronica, to hypnagogic elements, dub, industrial ambient and more. Pliiant cherishes anonymity, which allows for his music to just exist and flow freely. As gentle elements […]
Kirk Barley
Kirk Barley (aka Church Andrews) is a Yorkshire-born composer and sound artist. Under his own name he produces textural, organic work, formed from processed studio and field recordings. As Church Andrews he produces synthetic, often beat-focussed music, using digital synthesis and algorithmic compositional techniques. For both projects, he draws influences from jazz, minimalism, techno and […]
Pub
The enigmatic Pub from Glasgow has been producing music ever since he was 14. At the beginning of the 2000s, his Do You Ever Regret Pantomime album and the Summer EP became two of the most celebrated releases in contemporary ambient and electronics. Pub’s music celebrates musical intuition, and develops along almost natural paths, taking […]
Nosedrip
Ziggy Devriendt, aka Nosedrip from Belgium runs the Stroom label, has a show on NTS and is one of the prime voices in Belgian club, ambient and experimental music alike. With Stroom, he has unearthed killer archival gems from the 80s and 90s Avantgarde and beyond. Nosedrip sets the mood like no-one else and leaves […]
Lupini
Lupini has quietly established herself as a pivotal figure in the alternative music scene in the UK. She founded both the femme-forward esoteric techno night, ATHE, and her deep listening sound project, Heavy Texture. Her sets drift from lilting ambient (as Heavy Texture), to mutant swung techno, breakbeat, electro and bass-heavy sounds (as ATHE) all […]
Dan Nicholls
Dan Nicholls is a keyboardist, producer, and curator with an expansive and deeply entangled practice in the field of sound. Embracing joyful improvisation whilst casting aside dogma and seriousness, Nicholls’ work searches for deeper narratives, finding depth and form through quick experimentation and distillation – layering, stretching, and collaging sound and diffracting materials from many […]
5th of July
What happens the 5th of July is yet unknown to Brussels musical mysteries, but Roman Hiele, Victoria Palacios & Ferre Marnef try to search for a shared answer. Next to their homebased projects Alto Fuero, Sergeant and Hiele they now combine their bodies and fluid minds to swurl around each other and the air in […]
Nuno Loureiro
Nuno Loureiro is a musician from Porto. His music evokes a subdued sensitivity crafted from subtly ascending melodies, often eschewing a rhythmic beat. His is an effective minimalism, able to conjure up dreamlike experiences, even transcending them, serving as a gentle liftoff, seemingly attempting to break free from the overwhelming everyday experiences that both entice […]
Lawrence
Perpendicular Music is a new series of live performances by Dial Records co-founder Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence, premiered at the finissage of Marina Pinsky’s exhibition Infinite Play at La Loge, Brussels in April 2023. A variety of acoustic instruments and pre-recorded material on cassette tape intersects with computer-based audio manipulation. Slowly growing sound clusters […]