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Alphabet Dust – Over Here, Asteroid (Self-Released)

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All organised noise by Kenneth Brown
except: Peter Russell, Clarinet on Euphrosyne

Recorded in the Cupboard Studio, Stirling
Pallas is an excerpt from a live performance at
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 4th July 2024

© Another “Bite The Hand That Feeds” Production 2026

KMRU – Kin (Editions Mego)

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Editions Mego welcomes KMRU back to the fold. Kin is Nairobi born, Berlin based, sonic wizard Joseph Kamaru’s second release on Editions Mego, following on from the classic 2020 release Peel. Since the release and subsequent praise for Peel, the artist has been a staple on the electronic scene performing on numerous stages and festivals worldwide in tandem with a flood of media recognition. Kin could be construed as the second child following Peel. The project came out of initial discussions with Peter Rehberg about what a Peel sequel would sound like. Kamaru is quick to clarify that Kin is not that record; “I’ll know when that record will come and when I’ll make it. It’s already happening… or maybe it lives within both of these Mego records”.

It is this deft ambiguity and vague tiptoeing around the concrete that encapsulates the ambiguous sound world of Kamaru’s vision.

Kin was started early 2021 in Nairobi with Kamaru exploring his noisier palette of sounds encompassing distortions reminiscent of the sounds he would muster from in his youth when playing guitar. He paused making this record for a year as soon as Peter died, then slowly returned to it through 2022 resulting in the immense new work we have here.

The charms within Kin lay as Easter eggs revealing the true identity behind the colourful sonics only after multiple deep listens. With Trees Where We Can See sets the tone by way of a warm swaying melody inviting the listener in for further investigation. In 2022 KMRU and Mego stalwart Fennesz toured the USA together resulting in a strong friendship and also, the second track here, Blurred. A neat Mego/Editions Mego loop as such. Blurred arranges twangy guitar strums alongside glistening glaciers of shimmering drones. They Are Here represents a darker hue as melancholic clouds of shadowy noir tap directly into the listener’s nerve stream. Maybe takes a detour into a bristling euphoric electronic storm whilst We Are screeches in a pattern formation not unlike a highly abstracted Aphex Twin forcing its way out of a hard drive. By Absence concludes proceedings, operating as both exit music and a portal to further sonic investigation with acoustic bellowing residing amongst a kaleidoscopic backdrop.

Kin is a trip that rewards close repeated listens as all the colours and textures, nuance and narratives unveil themselves. This isn’t a record to be glossed over, magic rewards concentration.

Kin is a record to be Played slow and LOUD.

For Pita.

All tracks written, produced, mixed by Joseph Kamaru
Blurred co-written & produced with Christian Fennesz
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Photography: Joseph Kamaru
Layout & Design: Nik Void
Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin

Zi iacchos – Fragments (Self-Released)

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Fragments is a series of short musical pieces conceived as breaths rather than songs.

After the album Ornaments, which was built around text, voice, and symbolic articulation, Fragments moves in the opposite direction:
less language, less structure, less intention.

Each piece is limited in duration (around two minutes), not by constraint, but by necessity.
They are not meant to develop or conclude — they appear, remain briefly, and dissolve.

The voice, when present, is reduced to a single word, a syllable, or a gesture.
Sound is treated as matter: grain, air, erosion, suspension.

Fragments was composed and recorded live, without overdubs, to preserve fragility and immediacy.
It is designed for saturated minds and quiet rooms — a space to breathe, not to explain.

This EP is not a continuation of Ornaments, but its decantation.

Contagious Orgasm – behind closed doors (Ant-Zen)

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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM, the brainchild of hiroshi hashimoto from nagoya, japan, stands as a bold exploration of experimental sound and ambient noise. his compositions are a captivating blend of swirling psychedelia, crude samples, abandoned rhythms, and post-industrial noise, all woven into a seamless tapestry of ambient and concrete elements. this is music that demands active engagement, rewarding the listener with a hypnotic, immersive experience that is both inviting and disconcerting.

each composition is a rich vignette, balancing noise-soaked textures with exotic percussion, and gradually winding down into dreamlike interludes. CONTAGIOUS ORGASM’s work draws listeners into its nebulous darkness, offering a space for introspection, tension, and revelation. turn off the lights and let yourself be carried by this multifaceted, elegant journey through intimacy, alienation, and the blurred boundaries of perception and reality.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, time softened and blurred. each room held a fragment of feeling – a flicker of mood, a whisper asking thirsty?, and somewhere, a reflection of longing beneath the moon under water. shadows stretched gently, revealing a soft sensitivity in everything touched, a quiet ache threading through silence. reality wavered in the glass of an inverted mirror, showing not what was, but what might have been. then came the return – subtle, weightless, yet undeniable. beneath a suspended ceiling, where thoughts drifted like dust in filtered light, he understood: some truths only reveal themselves in silence, and only BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

composed and performed by h h. and fts. recorded and mixed at cool anatomy and yard cemetery, 2023-2024

artwork by stefan alt

this is ant-zen act475 & raubbau raub-107

Kali Malone + Drew McDowall – Magnetism (Ideologic Organ)

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Kali Malone and Drew McDowall present Magnetism, their first collaborative album born from a decade-long friendship and ignited by a single day of creative synergy. When Malone stepped into McDowall’s Brooklyn home studio, a shared vision immediately took root and set the course for a remarkable collaboration between these two singular artists.
On Magnetism, Malone’s poignant and evocative melodies manifest through McDowall’s signature timbral synthesis, creating a unified voice that soars freely and radiates with vitality. Technically, the duo employs an exquisite blend of Karplus-Strong synthesis, distortion and just intonation. Kali and Drew embrace these tools with refined grace while moving fluidly within their musical framework. Charged by the magnetic pull of repetition, saturation, and resonance, Magnetism pulses as a living music that captivates the senses and lingers long in the mind after the final notes fade.

All music by Kali Malone + Drew McDowall
Recorded at Drew’s house, NYC 2022
Mixed by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin, NYC 2023
Additional mixing on track 1 & 2 by Kali Malone, Paris 2024
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC 2025
Artwork by Manon Cavalier, Paris 2025
Portrait by Randall Dunn, NYC 2023
Special thanks to Shane & Zeeke
Ideologic Organ curation & design by Stephen O’Malley
Released in association with Shelter Press
℗+© 2025 Ideologic Organ

Foetus – Halt (Ectopic Ents)

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Foetus is one of the major musical projects of NYC composer JG Thirlwell.

HALT is the final Foetus album, and the first Foetus album in twelve years. It completes the cycle of an arc that began in 1981 with the first Foetus album DEAF.

Thirlwell worked on HALT on and off over a period of eight years. As with each album he has made, he wanted to reinvent the music, use new forms, innovate and introduce new surprising forms into his musical palette, at the same time as feeling like a leap forward.

HALT deals with themes of war, religion, disease, media, global warming, anxiety, hypocrisy, conspiracy, death and mortality, among other things. Dread is a leitmotif through many of the Foetus albums and this one is no exception.

HALT will be followed by its companion album, LEAK, in 2027.


COMPOSED, PRODUCED, PERFORMED AND RECORDED BY
JG THIRLWELL AT SELF IMMOLATION STUDIOS

MIXED AT SELF IMMOLATION STUDIOS AND CIRCULAR RUIN STUDIO
FINAL MIXES WITH BEN GREENBERG AT CIRCULAR RUIN STUDIO
DRUMS RECORDED AT 30 BELOW
ENGINEERED BY BRENT MCLACHLAN

SPECIAL GUESTS
LEAH ASHER (The Rhythm Method) VIOLIN ON 2, 11
JAKE BALDWIN TRUMPETS ON 3, 7, 10
BRIAN CHASE (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) DRUMS ON 1,3 ,8
TIMO ELLIS (Netherlands) GUITAR ON 3, 7
SIMON HANES (Tredici Bacci) BANJO ON 9, BASS ON 9, 11, ACOUSTIC GUITAR ON 9
BRENDON RANDALL MYERS (Dither) GUITAR ON 3, 4, 10
SAMI STEVENS VOCALS ON 3
LAURA WOLF ADDITIONAL VOICE ON 8

SLEEVE ARTWORK BY JG THIRLWELL

Hal McGee – October 2025 Report (HalTapes)

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October 2025 Report
was recorded October 1st through 31st 2025
in Gainesville, Florida
with four Sony ICD PX-470 stereo digital dictaphones
dictaphone assemblage audio folk art
with spoken words by Hal
co-starring Stanley
rain, kazoo, frog clicker, circuit bent Casio SK-1, various harmonicas,
stewed tomatoes canjo, cigar box diddley bow,crows, aircraft, two string (then one string) pink dumpster guitar, transparent plastic ukulele, in ostrich tuning, smoke alarm signal, emergency vehicles, my mom’s dog Bailey, KQ Unotone iPhone and iPad synth, Stylophone CPM DS-2 analog synthesizer, SUPERFREQ built by Ryan Stanley, miscellaneous sounds and conversations from Apartment Music 58, wooden train whistle, sounds from Mark McGee’s 2025 Halloween Extravaganza, Finley McGee’s second birthday, conversations with neighbors, gaseous emissions from my asshole
— the voices of Dylan Houser, Trevor Luke, Alex Smith, Mark McGee, Finley McGee, JoAn McGee, and Kyle McGee
— thanks to Rafael González, who contributed numerous dictaphone recordings of him speaking, singing, playing the trumpet, Casio SK-1, crickets, and sounds from his daily life.

my beloved two string pink dumpster guitar has finally attained its true potential and destiny! it is now a one string pink dumpster guitar, and is now perfect. it always had one string too many! the “bass” string broke during my performance at Apartment Music 58.

BLOOM & Christopher Nosnibor – Journeys Through Inner Space (Petroglyph Music)

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Some words from Christopher Nosniborr regarding the release:

Journeys Through Inner Space

Art, in all of its many forms, often helps us to understand the world, and, indeed, ourselves. It’s also true that works which are the most personal for the creator have a wider resonance, in that they have the capacity to articulate for others something that reaches beyond art as entertainment, and that often, in the personal lies the universal. For a long time, I have found the act of writing has helped me navigate some of the most challenging times, and particularly recently, I have come to discover the catharsis of laying bare some of my most innermost thoughts on the page, and bringing these to performance.

The texts which form the narratives of Journeys Through Inner Space are taken from my novel The Deserted Island, and work in progress, Reflections on a Life, and explore themes of anxiety, bewilderment, and bereavement. These are not light or easy topics, and are topics we often shy away from. Because they are uncomfortable. But they are realities of life, and while we may wish otherwise, the stark fact is that they will likely affect us all in some way or another at some point. In these pieces, I speak only from my own experiences of my journeys through inner space.

‘Am I Really Having This Conversation?’, and ‘A Slew of Likes and Handy Hints’ – original texts appear in The Deserted Island (Clinicality Press, 2022).

All other texts from Reflections on a Life (unpublished).

The words to ‘Last Days’ appeared on a track bearing a variant title on the Last Days EP (self-released, 2023) 

 

released October 31, 2025

Christopher Nosnibor – Vocals
christophernosnibor.bandcamp.com

Deborah Fialkiewicz – Synthesizers
grahamfialkiewicz.bandcamp.com

Dan Dolby – Synthesizers, Sound Manipulation
dandolby.bandcamp.com