Muqata'a
Muqata’a is a musician and MC based in Ramallah, Palestine. Creating sounds using sampled material, field recordings, and electronic devices, the results range between hip-hop, downtempo, and glitch He has composed and produced music for artists such as Kronos Quartet, Bukue One, Jehst, Tamer Abu-Ghazaleh and others, and has appeared as an MC on albums […]
Franz Hautzinger & Mazen Kerbaj
Franz Hautzinger Detours often lead to more thrilling goals because they open up new perspectives. Franz Hautzinger has taken long and bendy detours and turned to many dead ends, he has spent years without instrumental activity and has made a hopeful new start. All this, those victories and defeats, this “History from the Total […]
Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings
Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings Arnold Dreyblatt: Excited Strings Bass Konrad Sprenger: Percussion, Digitally Automated Guitar System Joachim Schütz – Modified E-Guitar One of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka. […]
Ghost Producer
Producer, composer, sound designer and multi instrumentalist Raz Mesinai has been at the forefront of the NYC underground music scene for 30 years and has produced hundreds of albums of various spectrums under dozens of monikors. Starting in the late 80’s at the age of 15 Mesinai began producing cassettes of his original compositions […]
NWAQ & Don't DJ
NWAQ Newworldaquarium has a history of quality electronic music. Starting out on the legendary Dutch label Eevo Lute, various projects for Peacefrog and Delsin soon followed. With Jochem Peteri it’s all about the groove, not the composition. Grooves that go on endlessly, grooves that slowly change colour and shape and sneak their way into […]
Skiftande Enheter
Skiftande Enheter started out as a punk band in 2017, not the noisiest kind but still noisy enough to scare away the most sensitive ears. The sound was firmly rooted in the UKDIY sound of the late seventies. Since then they have through a series of singles and EP’s developed into something else, more like […]
Peaking Lights
Aaron Coyes is a DJ, musician and producer who has been playing with esoteric sounds since the mid 90’s. For the last 10 years he has been one half of the experimental electronic duo Peaking Lights, who have toured extensively and released 5 albums to date – most recently an EP in 2018 on Dekmantel with an LP to follow […]
E/tape
Mystery and ambiguity have long been established strategies through which artists can ensure focus remain on their music; for e/tape, who’s originally from Slovenia but spent his last decade between the Balearic Islands and the rest of the planet, it is just his level of commitment to sound. e/tape is a project built on the […]
John Chantler
John Chantler is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden. He mostly works with synthesizers and electronics to create unpredictable, highly dynamic music where passages of spare, alien beauty bridge distorted washes of massed harmonics. His latest solo recording ‘Tomorrow is too late’ will be released in October 2019 by ROOM40 and was originally commissioned by INA […]
A Trio
“A” Trio is probably the oldest Lebanese improv group. Formed in 2002 for a concert during “Irtijal’02”, they went on to record the first free jazz CD to be produced in the arab world (“A”, La Cédéthèque, 2003). Their music later moved away from its jazz roots towards a more textural approach, relying strongly on […]