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• ANDY NORSTROM
Rambling around open fields of freshly cut grass, Andy Norstrom moves from this side to the other as close as meeting Britain’s Got Talent winner of 2008 and as far as hearing through the depths of psychedelic and deviant folk worlds that hide nothing but incantations, beasts and spectres. Discreetly connecting the dots between freak folk, ghost stories, funeral dirges, protest songs, choral chants and pastoral music, Andy puts together an impossible-to-track-down speculative playbook for astral realities. Although he doesn’t always remember the places where he rambles on earth, Andy knows no memory limits when it comes to his astral ramblings into the outsider mythical planes. And if you listen with your body, there’s a chance you may meet him somewhere there.
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Rambling around open fields of freshly cut grass, Andy Norstrom moves from this side to the other as close as meeting Britain’s Got Talent winner of 2008 and as far as hearing through the depths of psychedelic and deviant folk worlds that hide nothing but incantations, beasts and spectres. Discreetly connecting the dots between freak folk, ghost stories, funeral dirges, protest songs, choral chants and pastoral music, Andy puts together an impossible-to-track-down speculative playbook for astral realities. Although he doesn’t always remember the places where he rambles on earth, Andy knows no memory limits when it comes to his astral ramblings into the outsider mythical planes. And if you listen with your body, there’s a chance you may meet him somewhere there.
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• AYLA HIBRI
Deeply involved in visual world building, Ayla Hibri captures her colourful, textural, and tactile cosmos through photography, drawings and paintings. In the sonic macrocosm, guide signs are spread all along her Scenic Route show, which embodies a journey through the stream of lively memories and sonic dwellings. The warm and eclectic dreamscapes of the Beirut-born, Amman-based jack of all trades will soften your ear canal and veil any form of existence under a melodic bloom. Delicately infused with splashes of percussions creeping from below a creatures’ land, intimate murmurs of poetry, and free floating nebulous rhythms, Ayla’s pensive compositions come close to anyone’s heartbeat.
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Deeply involved in visual world building, Ayla Hibri captures her colourful, textural, and tactile cosmos through photography, drawings and paintings. In the sonic macrocosm, guide signs are spread all along her Scenic Route show, which embodies a journey through the stream of lively memories and sonic dwellings. The warm and eclectic dreamscapes of the Beirut-born, Amman-based jack of all trades will soften your ear canal and veil any form of existence under a melodic bloom. Delicately infused with splashes of percussions creeping from below a creatures’ land, intimate murmurs of poetry, and free floating nebulous rhythms, Ayla’s pensive compositions come close to anyone’s heartbeat.
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• ALEXANDRA MARR
Alexandra Marr’s mixes defy easy categorization. Exploratory and composed with exceptional sensibility for harmony and ambience, they consistently bring seemingly disparate musical styles into an intimate dialogue. Marr’s trademark is her unique ability to straddle the divide between the uplifting and melancholic, the stripped-down and the embellished, always looking for soulfulness in places where few other might expect to find it.
Alexandra Marr’s mixes defy easy categorization. Exploratory and composed with exceptional sensibility for harmony and ambience, they consistently bring seemingly disparate musical styles into an intimate dialogue. Marr’s trademark is her unique ability to straddle the divide between the uplifting and melancholic, the stripped-down and the embellished, always looking for soulfulness in places where few other might expect to find it.
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• ANDREA IDA
The Viennese Andrea Ida is a hobbyist ornithologist and caring Libra, and also happens to have a delightful record collection which she shares with our listeners through the world wide web. Psychedelic curiosities from dub to kraut and all things cosmic (and flutes!) create a dreamlike atmosphere. Andrea herself is a sleep- walker and talker, leading us to believe she communicates directly with the dream spirits. Open your chakras, third eyes, heart, mind - time to watch, time to learn, now you are born in this New Age. The midwife looks you in the eye and states: ‘Could be us, but u’re human’.
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The Viennese Andrea Ida is a hobbyist ornithologist and caring Libra, and also happens to have a delightful record collection which she shares with our listeners through the world wide web. Psychedelic curiosities from dub to kraut and all things cosmic (and flutes!) create a dreamlike atmosphere. Andrea herself is a sleep- walker and talker, leading us to believe she communicates directly with the dream spirits. Open your chakras, third eyes, heart, mind - time to watch, time to learn, now you are born in this New Age. The midwife looks you in the eye and states: ‘Could be us, but u’re human’.
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• ANI PHOEBE
Ani Phoebe's worlds are many but firmly rooted in a never-ending magnetic groove that leads through streams of nuanced synth-echoing whispers from the past. It's never the same destination when she's on diving duties - whether the Hong-Kong based navigator is dipping deep into ecstatic balearic bubbles, dripping disco saunas, or touching peculiar sides of blazing hip-hop, dub icebergs, and electronic strikes, she knows when to brake and when to break a dancefloor's atmosphere. Impossible to place within a definite space or time, Ani Phoebe's open-eared world will flourish TNP with an irresistible twist of coastal cliff dancing eccentricities.
Ani Phoebe's worlds are many but firmly rooted in a never-ending magnetic groove that leads through streams of nuanced synth-echoing whispers from the past. It's never the same destination when she's on diving duties - whether the Hong-Kong based navigator is dipping deep into ecstatic balearic bubbles, dripping disco saunas, or touching peculiar sides of blazing hip-hop, dub icebergs, and electronic strikes, she knows when to brake and when to break a dancefloor's atmosphere. Impossible to place within a definite space or time, Ani Phoebe's open-eared world will flourish TNP with an irresistible twist of coastal cliff dancing eccentricities.
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• BLÖD HEINIE
Blöd Heinie knaks from the way, skidding against the guardrail and creating sparks by doing so. As a member of band and art collective LOSDQ and a prolific chaos-instigator on his own accord in both Amsterdam and Maastricht, his show is best described as reaching the edges of the naive through blind optimism and joyful fearlessness, not afraid to be the fool. Raising the corner of the mouth as well as the eyebrow and turning some heads. So if you don't know what to think of it, you are heading in the right direction. ‘It doesn’t matter if you fly out of the bend if you’re already offroad’.
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Blöd Heinie knaks from the way, skidding against the guardrail and creating sparks by doing so. As a member of band and art collective LOSDQ and a prolific chaos-instigator on his own accord in both Amsterdam and Maastricht, his show is best described as reaching the edges of the naive through blind optimism and joyful fearlessness, not afraid to be the fool. Raising the corner of the mouth as well as the eyebrow and turning some heads. So if you don't know what to think of it, you are heading in the right direction. ‘It doesn’t matter if you fly out of the bend if you’re already offroad’.
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• CHARMAINE
Charmaine radiates good vibes through her broad smile and any soundsystem. Her mixes are always more soulful than purgatory and range from easy listening to hard-hitting, depending on the setting and the soundsystem. Of course the purgatory simile falls flat when examining Charmaine’s sets; the joyous and colourful atmospheres she shapes have saved many a soul from eternal damnation. Her base of operations is Rotterdam, where she works as a Clone Records employee and as an Operator radio programmer. This constant exposure to music is reflected in the depth of her performances.
Charmaine radiates good vibes through her broad smile and any soundsystem. Her mixes are always more soulful than purgatory and range from easy listening to hard-hitting, depending on the setting and the soundsystem. Of course the purgatory simile falls flat when examining Charmaine’s sets; the joyous and colourful atmospheres she shapes have saved many a soul from eternal damnation. Her base of operations is Rotterdam, where she works as a Clone Records employee and as an Operator radio programmer. This constant exposure to music is reflected in the depth of her performances.
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• COCCO MIO
Cocco Mio’s world balances between chaos and clarity, beauty and discomfort, as she describes it herself: a punch to the gut followed by a warm hug. Obsessed with oddball sounds and musicians who break the rules, her sets invite you to really listen. As an illustrator and graphic designer deeply inspired by music, she creates original covers for each show to capture its atmosphere. DJing since 2021, her genre-spanning selections embrace sound’s transformative power to move and inspire. Her show is an exploration of rhythm, tension, and release, pushing the limits of what we feel—and hear...do u hear it too?
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Cocco Mio’s world balances between chaos and clarity, beauty and discomfort, as she describes it herself: a punch to the gut followed by a warm hug. Obsessed with oddball sounds and musicians who break the rules, her sets invite you to really listen. As an illustrator and graphic designer deeply inspired by music, she creates original covers for each show to capture its atmosphere. DJing since 2021, her genre-spanning selections embrace sound’s transformative power to move and inspire. Her show is an exploration of rhythm, tension, and release, pushing the limits of what we feel—and hear...do u hear it too?
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• COCO MARÍA
Dancing while flipping sides of hot-as-blazing tunes fires up anyone around. With Coco Maria, every radioshow is a carnival on airwaves, whether you’re swaying in your office chair, shaking your butt while chopping carrots or banging the steering wheel of your car on Samba rhythms and tambourine beats. Always with energetic narratives and a one-way ticket to the tropics, Coco Maria can warm up your day even in the breeziest weather. Invoking the sun on various radio stations, she knows the place to all hot-and-sweaty celebrations and the secret to full body experiences of ankle-breaking rarities — are you ready to rock steady?
Dancing while flipping sides of hot-as-blazing tunes fires up anyone around. With Coco Maria, every radioshow is a carnival on airwaves, whether you’re swaying in your office chair, shaking your butt while chopping carrots or banging the steering wheel of your car on Samba rhythms and tambourine beats. Always with energetic narratives and a one-way ticket to the tropics, Coco Maria can warm up your day even in the breeziest weather. Invoking the sun on various radio stations, she knows the place to all hot-and-sweaty celebrations and the secret to full body experiences of ankle-breaking rarities — are you ready to rock steady?
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• CORECORE
Remember when the internet was fun? corecore sure does, and artfully and artistically elicit feelings of when it was - making the current webscape more fun in the process. Functioning as an online platform through Discord and other channels, they manage to walk the line between cutting-edge and nostalgia, hitting home for late millennials and early gen z’ers alike. Their admins are cdr103, jp'♡ and tj0ki. So tune in or visit one of their irl or url events! :dj: d-_-b
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Remember when the internet was fun? corecore sure does, and artfully and artistically elicit feelings of when it was - making the current webscape more fun in the process. Functioning as an online platform through Discord and other channels, they manage to walk the line between cutting-edge and nostalgia, hitting home for late millennials and early gen z’ers alike. Their admins are cdr103, jp'♡ and tj0ki. So tune in or visit one of their irl or url events! :dj: d-_-b
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• DANIEL JAHN
Daniel Jahn, or sometimes unhappybirthday is the ideal companion for drifting bodiless into rainforests of sensitive depths. He is also a resident at our NTS colleagues and the driving force behind the Hamburg based indie label Bureau B, hiding under a dusty collection of unheard musics and jarring echoes without a trace. Caught into the sheer intensity of dark things we tell each other, Daniel strikes a balance between stasis and dislocation, tinting the environment with midnight melancholia, misty delirium and iridescent visions. His sets reveal exactly what his sonic theatre is about - a play of uncanny wonders and suspenseful oddities. A direct invitation to sinking into a placid shining dark listening reverie, stripped of edge and clarity.
Daniel Jahn, or sometimes unhappybirthday is the ideal companion for drifting bodiless into rainforests of sensitive depths. He is also a resident at our NTS colleagues and the driving force behind the Hamburg based indie label Bureau B, hiding under a dusty collection of unheard musics and jarring echoes without a trace. Caught into the sheer intensity of dark things we tell each other, Daniel strikes a balance between stasis and dislocation, tinting the environment with midnight melancholia, misty delirium and iridescent visions. His sets reveal exactly what his sonic theatre is about - a play of uncanny wonders and suspenseful oddities. A direct invitation to sinking into a placid shining dark listening reverie, stripped of edge and clarity.
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• DAZION
Spinning around in a daze across splinters of crisp new beat, freaky acid breaks, or hard hitting electro explosions, Dazion packs all kinds of influences in his smoothly blended groove boxes. Ready anytime to transform your room into a fluid dancefloor, his weirdly rhythmic, sometimes emotional and relentless picks intertwine under a frisky cosmic soundscape. Rocking the club scene in high demand with his Dazion moniker, Cris Kuhlen counts many of his signature releases on renowned labels such as Safe Trip, Second Circle, and Animals Dancing. Straight outta The Hague, the sounds of Dazion travel at light-speed and move in slow-motion towards an alien utterance that echoes in his radio odyssey.
Spinning around in a daze across splinters of crisp new beat, freaky acid breaks, or hard hitting electro explosions, Dazion packs all kinds of influences in his smoothly blended groove boxes. Ready anytime to transform your room into a fluid dancefloor, his weirdly rhythmic, sometimes emotional and relentless picks intertwine under a frisky cosmic soundscape. Rocking the club scene in high demand with his Dazion moniker, Cris Kuhlen counts many of his signature releases on renowned labels such as Safe Trip, Second Circle, and Animals Dancing. Straight outta The Hague, the sounds of Dazion travel at light-speed and move in slow-motion towards an alien utterance that echoes in his radio odyssey.
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• DEAN HIGH
Extraordinary and hypernormal; Dean High goes above, beyond and outside. The Serbian-Dutchman — who hosts the bi-monthly show ‘Hypernormal radio’ — employs an analytic ear in his productions and selections, in which he manages to strike a perfect balance between consistency and unpredictability. This all results in music that sucks the listeners in, bites their necks and touches them with cold fingers, leaving them in an auditory chokehold fashioned from heavy sub action, tight drum sounds and unexpected grooves. Said programmed rhythm sections are coloured in by unpredictable, cavernous and haunting tonal content which results in an experience which transcends the total sum of its parts.
Extraordinary and hypernormal; Dean High goes above, beyond and outside. The Serbian-Dutchman — who hosts the bi-monthly show ‘Hypernormal radio’ — employs an analytic ear in his productions and selections, in which he manages to strike a perfect balance between consistency and unpredictability. This all results in music that sucks the listeners in, bites their necks and touches them with cold fingers, leaving them in an auditory chokehold fashioned from heavy sub action, tight drum sounds and unexpected grooves. Said programmed rhythm sections are coloured in by unpredictable, cavernous and haunting tonal content which results in an experience which transcends the total sum of its parts.
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• FABIO FONTANELLI
Rarely seen wielding a USB, Fabio Fontanelli lets the processes which deposit records into record bins guide his DJ practice. As such, his DJ sets often included often-overlooked pearls. It is not only the auditory world that fascinates Fabio — it’s the bridge that connects it to the material world which is equally as important to him. This fascination also led to his mix cassette series — the VIAVIA tapes — after which he also named his show. VIAVIA was the name of a boogie project from his hometown Maastricht — a record which perfectly encapsulates the quirky European twists on familiar genres that often find their way into his projects.
Rarely seen wielding a USB, Fabio Fontanelli lets the processes which deposit records into record bins guide his DJ practice. As such, his DJ sets often included often-overlooked pearls. It is not only the auditory world that fascinates Fabio — it’s the bridge that connects it to the material world which is equally as important to him. This fascination also led to his mix cassette series — the VIAVIA tapes — after which he also named his show. VIAVIA was the name of a boogie project from his hometown Maastricht — a record which perfectly encapsulates the quirky European twists on familiar genres that often find their way into his projects.
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• FERGUS
Fergus’ show Object OD is one of the biggest hit-shows on our radio and it is not hard to see why. Fergus goes above and beyond with the amount of effort he puts into his show. Although he enjoys and excels at DJ’ing, his true favourite medium is radio, which he uses to the fullest. He plays tracks by his favourite artists, roughly in the DIY-gloomy-postpunk-folk sphere (‘frontier sounds’ as he calls them) interspersed with vocal liner notes by the Fergus and the artists themselves. As such, the list of impressive guests on his bi-monthly show is already immense, and ever-growing still.
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Fergus’ show Object OD is one of the biggest hit-shows on our radio and it is not hard to see why. Fergus goes above and beyond with the amount of effort he puts into his show. Although he enjoys and excels at DJ’ing, his true favourite medium is radio, which he uses to the fullest. He plays tracks by his favourite artists, roughly in the DIY-gloomy-postpunk-folk sphere (‘frontier sounds’ as he calls them) interspersed with vocal liner notes by the Fergus and the artists themselves. As such, the list of impressive guests on his bi-monthly show is already immense, and ever-growing still.
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• GENEEVRE
A face of many musical personas, Jermaine Boasman inherited a versatile background and far-reaching influences in all kinds of musics revealed by his own father. One laptop and a seat was all he needed to make him stand up, hit the buttons and embark into a long and gratifying exploration of electronic music. Now a skillful DJ and bold producer, you can spot him behind club and radio decks under aliases like GENEEVRE and GENE SHEIKAH, dropping self-produced seismic beats of basement hiphop and experimental intricacies.
A face of many musical personas, Jermaine Boasman inherited a versatile background and far-reaching influences in all kinds of musics revealed by his own father. One laptop and a seat was all he needed to make him stand up, hit the buttons and embark into a long and gratifying exploration of electronic music. Now a skillful DJ and bold producer, you can spot him behind club and radio decks under aliases like GENEEVRE and GENE SHEIKAH, dropping self-produced seismic beats of basement hiphop and experimental intricacies.
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• GIU NUNEZ
She knows a place and you can’t say no. Once Giu Nunez invites you somewhere, it cannot be anything but simply a celebration. A sonar for feverish atmospherics and uptempo rides, Giu always has the right directions never lacking in groove guidelines. Be it percussive rhythms that sync with pulses of desire or strings that carry kilometers of sensations, it’s a constantly thrilling and truly absorbing scape, and Giu knows it by heart. Still in doubt? Then what are you waiting for? Come To Brazil!
She knows a place and you can’t say no. Once Giu Nunez invites you somewhere, it cannot be anything but simply a celebration. A sonar for feverish atmospherics and uptempo rides, Giu always has the right directions never lacking in groove guidelines. Be it percussive rhythms that sync with pulses of desire or strings that carry kilometers of sensations, it’s a constantly thrilling and truly absorbing scape, and Giu knows it by heart. Still in doubt? Then what are you waiting for? Come To Brazil!
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• GOOD BLOCK
The DIY-powerhouse that is Good Block has been making waves for a few years now. With their idiosyncratic approach to producing, handling every aspect of the record themselves, it’s hard not to be charmed by the Best Block out of London. The tight drum programming of their own production and the variations in atmospheres surrounding their beats over the years give a good indication of what they play as DJ’s; Expect B-side aesthetics, deep hazy dubs, left-field sounds and crispy synths for both home listening and dance-floors alike.
The DIY-powerhouse that is Good Block has been making waves for a few years now. With their idiosyncratic approach to producing, handling every aspect of the record themselves, it’s hard not to be charmed by the Best Block out of London. The tight drum programming of their own production and the variations in atmospheres surrounding their beats over the years give a good indication of what they play as DJ’s; Expect B-side aesthetics, deep hazy dubs, left-field sounds and crispy synths for both home listening and dance-floors alike.
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• GUSTAVO KENO
Trying to reach Gustavo Keno? Then it’s time for a quick ride through the depths of history and music - places where his knowledge can span from the most rarefied (re)discoveries to the most politically and socially bold material ever heard under the discoball. The brainforce behind Ilê Discos and YouTube admin of Juntos Com Certeza, Gustavo splits between what he listens to, what he researches, and what he dances to, bridging gaps between education and entertainment, and marching towards a decolonization of the dancefloor. An active contributor, Gustavo is always to be found on the scene of worldwide collectives and events, such as Selvagem, Urbeck's Festival, Planet Trip, Rinse France, and more. He travels to share, teach and dance, and once in a while, you can catch a glimpse into a body of music that he has now collected under Eu Não Sou Seu Negro every two months and invites you to explore.
Trying to reach Gustavo Keno? Then it’s time for a quick ride through the depths of history and music - places where his knowledge can span from the most rarefied (re)discoveries to the most politically and socially bold material ever heard under the discoball. The brainforce behind Ilê Discos and YouTube admin of Juntos Com Certeza, Gustavo splits between what he listens to, what he researches, and what he dances to, bridging gaps between education and entertainment, and marching towards a decolonization of the dancefloor. An active contributor, Gustavo is always to be found on the scene of worldwide collectives and events, such as Selvagem, Urbeck's Festival, Planet Trip, Rinse France, and more. He travels to share, teach and dance, and once in a while, you can catch a glimpse into a body of music that he has now collected under Eu Não Sou Seu Negro every two months and invites you to explore.
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• JOHN AGESILAS
John Agesilas is a guru in several disciplines — positivity, dancing, and all things house music. The man with the infectious smile has had a decades long career — working with Donna Summer and Earth, Wind & Fire as a dancer and co-producing with Kerri Chandler and Atjazz. John is also a formative force for Night Owls, Djoon and Summer Dance Forever. Luckily for us, John is far from greedy with his acquired knowledge and is often found educating people in house culture, dance and life in general. His didactic attitude can be summed up in one of his often said nuggets of wisdom: “Always be a student of life”.
John Agesilas is a guru in several disciplines — positivity, dancing, and all things house music. The man with the infectious smile has had a decades long career — working with Donna Summer and Earth, Wind & Fire as a dancer and co-producing with Kerri Chandler and Atjazz. John is also a formative force for Night Owls, Djoon and Summer Dance Forever. Luckily for us, John is far from greedy with his acquired knowledge and is often found educating people in house culture, dance and life in general. His didactic attitude can be summed up in one of his often said nuggets of wisdom: “Always be a student of life”.
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• KLEINGELD
Hummingbird songs in frosty mornings, church choirs and bells ringing, euphoric vocals, crying guitars, and swelling synths — that’s what Kleingeld’s dreams are made of. Brimming over with gloomy echoes and intricate percussion, her candle illuminated shows can induce anyone into a posthypnotic amnesia. DJ by day, didgeridoo by night, the empress of reverb plays with haunted airwaves embodied by her listeners’ breaths — all in a strange but fun parade, destination unknown, fragile, and uncertain sonic fields. Feeling uneasy or confused? Just relax, Kleingeld whispers, “I will count sheep for you, rest easy now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven — give in… eight, nine, ten….”
Hummingbird songs in frosty mornings, church choirs and bells ringing, euphoric vocals, crying guitars, and swelling synths — that’s what Kleingeld’s dreams are made of. Brimming over with gloomy echoes and intricate percussion, her candle illuminated shows can induce anyone into a posthypnotic amnesia. DJ by day, didgeridoo by night, the empress of reverb plays with haunted airwaves embodied by her listeners’ breaths — all in a strange but fun parade, destination unknown, fragile, and uncertain sonic fields. Feeling uneasy or confused? Just relax, Kleingeld whispers, “I will count sheep for you, rest easy now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven — give in… eight, nine, ten….”
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• LOMA DOOM
Not only an emblematic radio veteran, but also a pioneering digger, Loma Doom traverses aural dimensions and picks arcane formulas for her sonic treatments. Curiosity is what straddles her artistic practice and sonic experiences. In the dungeon of her bi-monthly show, Helter Skelter, she moves in a non-linear manner around dubby rhythmic patterns and rich textured arrangements, and seeks to explore the darkest corners of electronic experimentalism. Guided by instinct, Loma is not afraid to operate with a surgical precision around psychedelic and hardcore punk, freak folk, ritualistic percussions and howls, and spellbinding drones. Stitching together radio and archives as her main media, her approach revolves around various notions of listening and how listening is a call to action. Apart from being a sonic surgeon, Femke is also an active artistic researcher, curator and educator of contemporary arts.
Not only an emblematic radio veteran, but also a pioneering digger, Loma Doom traverses aural dimensions and picks arcane formulas for her sonic treatments. Curiosity is what straddles her artistic practice and sonic experiences. In the dungeon of her bi-monthly show, Helter Skelter, she moves in a non-linear manner around dubby rhythmic patterns and rich textured arrangements, and seeks to explore the darkest corners of electronic experimentalism. Guided by instinct, Loma is not afraid to operate with a surgical precision around psychedelic and hardcore punk, freak folk, ritualistic percussions and howls, and spellbinding drones. Stitching together radio and archives as her main media, her approach revolves around various notions of listening and how listening is a call to action. Apart from being a sonic surgeon, Femke is also an active artistic researcher, curator and educator of contemporary arts.
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• MARWAN FILALI
What’s an architect to do better than building his own Salon de Musique? Collecting, DJing and architecting in and around Marseille, Marwan picks and flips listening material for all kinds of atmospheres and temperatures. There’s certainly not a maximum of square meters when it comes to his taste - once you’re in, the salon keeper will walk you through so many disparate musical styles and shades that are not without recalling a state of being breezy, easy and free. Marwan’s house rules are simple: step into his highly intimate, dreamy gestalt, and take a seat inside what’s soft and comfortable for the ear. Get ready for that pillow-listening.
What’s an architect to do better than building his own Salon de Musique? Collecting, DJing and architecting in and around Marseille, Marwan picks and flips listening material for all kinds of atmospheres and temperatures. There’s certainly not a maximum of square meters when it comes to his taste - once you’re in, the salon keeper will walk you through so many disparate musical styles and shades that are not without recalling a state of being breezy, easy and free. Marwan’s house rules are simple: step into his highly intimate, dreamy gestalt, and take a seat inside what’s soft and comfortable for the ear. Get ready for that pillow-listening.
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• NORM
A sonic time-traveller and fantasy architect, Norm collects relics and puts them together in Faking Jazz Together. He builds up radiant and delicate worlds in which harmony and emotion prevail over anything else. Diffracted into multiple histories and genres, Norm’s music recreates an ambiance of hazy fusion jazz, hypnotizing psychedelic rock & pop, mellow bossa, and many other rhythmic boogies. Each show is a process of becoming for Norm — an opportunity to refresh and augment his inspiration which has been paved on a strong foundation represented by Connan Mockasin’s psychedelia. Once you tune in, you slip down in a mellifluous and vivid dream.
A sonic time-traveller and fantasy architect, Norm collects relics and puts them together in Faking Jazz Together. He builds up radiant and delicate worlds in which harmony and emotion prevail over anything else. Diffracted into multiple histories and genres, Norm’s music recreates an ambiance of hazy fusion jazz, hypnotizing psychedelic rock & pop, mellow bossa, and many other rhythmic boogies. Each show is a process of becoming for Norm — an opportunity to refresh and augment his inspiration which has been paved on a strong foundation represented by Connan Mockasin’s psychedelia. Once you tune in, you slip down in a mellifluous and vivid dream.
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• ONDULA
Suddenly the circle starts moving in a slipstream of sounds and words, a whole rhythmic story gets going. She collects and keeps, she cuts and blends, an all kinds explorer and sound archeologist, Laura OdL entrenches herself in assemblages of abstracted realities with field recordings, analogue tape machines, and other DIY instruments. To all that’s rarefied and clandestine, Laura opens a window into the unexposed craft of artists and collectives and frames their compositions in a playful and bizarre collage steering. When she’s not a noise receptor, she’s a groove effector on dancefloors. Outside the field, inside the booth, Laura becomes Ondula and her sonic patches become even more experimentally intricate, this time swirling under disco balls of Sameheads, Braille Satellite, Polyhymnia, and more. But no matter where she is, always when en route, she takes out and brings about peculiar cut-ups and arrangements which can only enlarge and echo her trimonthly Animal Circle.
Suddenly the circle starts moving in a slipstream of sounds and words, a whole rhythmic story gets going. She collects and keeps, she cuts and blends, an all kinds explorer and sound archeologist, Laura OdL entrenches herself in assemblages of abstracted realities with field recordings, analogue tape machines, and other DIY instruments. To all that’s rarefied and clandestine, Laura opens a window into the unexposed craft of artists and collectives and frames their compositions in a playful and bizarre collage steering. When she’s not a noise receptor, she’s a groove effector on dancefloors. Outside the field, inside the booth, Laura becomes Ondula and her sonic patches become even more experimentally intricate, this time swirling under disco balls of Sameheads, Braille Satellite, Polyhymnia, and more. But no matter where she is, always when en route, she takes out and brings about peculiar cut-ups and arrangements which can only enlarge and echo her trimonthly Animal Circle.
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• ROBOB
Timeless music can never flourish anywhere and no one can argue against Robob here. Delivering an instant appreciation for soulful delights, wizardry synths, disco heatwaves, sometimes caught in an electronic vortex, Robob is the one you want to soundtrack your road trips. Without overcommitting to any specific genre or mood, he knows how to carry the momentum of his episodes forward. Undoubtedly, Anthems Are Forever and a little bit of digging Robob’s musical archives and collaged sensibilities will most likely strike as a reminder. Are you the kind who easily forgets? Robob has you covered!
Timeless music can never flourish anywhere and no one can argue against Robob here. Delivering an instant appreciation for soulful delights, wizardry synths, disco heatwaves, sometimes caught in an electronic vortex, Robob is the one you want to soundtrack your road trips. Without overcommitting to any specific genre or mood, he knows how to carry the momentum of his episodes forward. Undoubtedly, Anthems Are Forever and a little bit of digging Robob’s musical archives and collaged sensibilities will most likely strike as a reminder. Are you the kind who easily forgets? Robob has you covered!
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• SAAR & CLAAR
Saar & Claar share similarly sounding nicknames and similarly sounding music. Their journey starts in Milan, where they met in art school and bonded over a shared interest in music — a shared passion which only seems to have intensified over the subsequent 8 years. They blend sounds from genres like Belgian New Wave, IDM and New Age — walking the tightrope between listening music and dancing music. This philosophy was also present in the ‘chill out’ rooms in 90s clubs which have since disappeared. They revive and expand this chill-out culture, shaped by the likes of Mixmaster Morris and the KLF, with their bi-monthly show called ‘Chill-out Room’.
Saar & Claar share similarly sounding nicknames and similarly sounding music. Their journey starts in Milan, where they met in art school and bonded over a shared interest in music — a shared passion which only seems to have intensified over the subsequent 8 years. They blend sounds from genres like Belgian New Wave, IDM and New Age — walking the tightrope between listening music and dancing music. This philosophy was also present in the ‘chill out’ rooms in 90s clubs which have since disappeared. They revive and expand this chill-out culture, shaped by the likes of Mixmaster Morris and the KLF, with their bi-monthly show called ‘Chill-out Room’.
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• SIENA OVEST WORLDWIDE
As busy as two bees, Camille Maria and Pietro Ferrari are in a constant mood for creation and growth. Creators of ambitious projects, the body-twisting duo is the sonic force behind Siena Ovest Worldwide and rulers of the Dusty Cabinets series. Camille and Pietro have been at it for 10 years and have successfully taken the western part of Siena, their hometown, to the world. Their ‘Dusty Cabinets’ events series hosts a diffusion of dub-related artists, such as Donna Leake and John T. Gast, whose woofer-wizardry undoubtedly disperses the dust from atop the cabinets into the air. The same dust-distributing-dub can be heard on their Radio TNP show.
As busy as two bees, Camille Maria and Pietro Ferrari are in a constant mood for creation and growth. Creators of ambitious projects, the body-twisting duo is the sonic force behind Siena Ovest Worldwide and rulers of the Dusty Cabinets series. Camille and Pietro have been at it for 10 years and have successfully taken the western part of Siena, their hometown, to the world. Their ‘Dusty Cabinets’ events series hosts a diffusion of dub-related artists, such as Donna Leake and John T. Gast, whose woofer-wizardry undoubtedly disperses the dust from atop the cabinets into the air. The same dust-distributing-dub can be heard on their Radio TNP show.
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• SOPHIE PSCHORR
Munich based DJ Sophie Pschorr works at the internationally revered institute Public Possession — a record label and store. She deals with synthesizer sounds from current and past times — often including echoing vocals, gritty instruments and originating in German musical history. She constantly moves between contrasts and finds her own connections, which takes her past a myriad of atmospheres of the new wave, dub, EBM and experimental variety. She’s a resident at Radio 80000 and at Radio Tempo Não Pára. With her series for Radio Tempo Não Pára, “Stratus”, she focuses more on softer and calmer sounds.
Munich based DJ Sophie Pschorr works at the internationally revered institute Public Possession — a record label and store. She deals with synthesizer sounds from current and past times — often including echoing vocals, gritty instruments and originating in German musical history. She constantly moves between contrasts and finds her own connections, which takes her past a myriad of atmospheres of the new wave, dub, EBM and experimental variety. She’s a resident at Radio 80000 and at Radio Tempo Não Pára. With her series for Radio Tempo Não Pára, “Stratus”, she focuses more on softer and calmer sounds.
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• TEMBER
Tember’s tempestuous timbres, which he slings into the aether through his TNP-show ‘Unlikely Animal Friends’ and ‘Club Hits Differently’, can be referred to as postmodern. The visual language in the world of Tember is delightfully campy and drenched in irony. The combination of songs he reproduces could be classified as ‘random’ compared to (past) club standards. There is definite philosophy and method behind the madness, however; Tember’s approach is purposefully anti-elitist and deliberately unorthodox. Without friction, there’s no shine — without experimentation, there is no innovation.
Tember’s tempestuous timbres, which he slings into the aether through his TNP-show ‘Unlikely Animal Friends’ and ‘Club Hits Differently’, can be referred to as postmodern. The visual language in the world of Tember is delightfully campy and drenched in irony. The combination of songs he reproduces could be classified as ‘random’ compared to (past) club standards. There is definite philosophy and method behind the madness, however; Tember’s approach is purposefully anti-elitist and deliberately unorthodox. Without friction, there’s no shine — without experimentation, there is no innovation.
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• TOSH
Intriguing dancer, first-class clubber, and part of our family since the very beginning, Tosh stands tall in both music and the real world. He can reach the highest altitudes with his musical taste and access any dimension of sonic serenity through fictive and vivid sounds. Tosh’s Sonic Fiction shows are filled with much coveted unknown jams that revolve around a multivalent exploration of what music across genres and eras can bring in terms of calmth, texture and warmth. It’s true, the dancefloor is his second home, but in his shows, you’ll only encounter an occasional kick drum that will enter your ear canal.
Intriguing dancer, first-class clubber, and part of our family since the very beginning, Tosh stands tall in both music and the real world. He can reach the highest altitudes with his musical taste and access any dimension of sonic serenity through fictive and vivid sounds. Tosh’s Sonic Fiction shows are filled with much coveted unknown jams that revolve around a multivalent exploration of what music across genres and eras can bring in terms of calmth, texture and warmth. It’s true, the dancefloor is his second home, but in his shows, you’ll only encounter an occasional kick drum that will enter your ear canal.
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• TRANSIENCE
Blending a contagious fever of electro bleeps and dub zappers with a strong spirited presence behind decks and an erratic approach to mixing it, DYKEHAUS aka Emme and DJ Shahmaran aka Arjîn advance together in an everlasting reckless change. Moving frenetically at high speeds around syncopated rhythms of cheeky ghetto breakers, the duo enters a boundless evolutionary trajectory in which things flicker and worlds collide. Turn on your pulsometer and enter the void of Transience — you’ll learn how to accept and navigate growth.
Blending a contagious fever of electro bleeps and dub zappers with a strong spirited presence behind decks and an erratic approach to mixing it, DYKEHAUS aka Emme and DJ Shahmaran aka Arjîn advance together in an everlasting reckless change. Moving frenetically at high speeds around syncopated rhythms of cheeky ghetto breakers, the duo enters a boundless evolutionary trajectory in which things flicker and worlds collide. Turn on your pulsometer and enter the void of Transience — you’ll learn how to accept and navigate growth.
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• WULFFLUW XCIV
Having released on the Ugandan Hakuna Kalula imprint is an accolade that speaks volumes of this upcoming, boundary shattering artist. Untethered by any location or notions of nationality, his music can be described as combining beautifully distorted sounds with the modern African body music typical of the Kampala scene, WULFFLUW XCIV seeks to go further - to be totally indescribable, while simultaneously encompassing everything - like the darkest black; containing all colours, but also the colour of the void.
Having released on the Ugandan Hakuna Kalula imprint is an accolade that speaks volumes of this upcoming, boundary shattering artist. Untethered by any location or notions of nationality, his music can be described as combining beautifully distorted sounds with the modern African body music typical of the Kampala scene, WULFFLUW XCIV seeks to go further - to be totally indescribable, while simultaneously encompassing everything - like the darkest black; containing all colours, but also the colour of the void.
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