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Mean Flow – And The Loser Is… (Self-Released)

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Label Description: Current catalogue number is : MF349

Mean Flow is a solo project of Theofil Tsiolakakis from Thessaloniki, Greece.

All 17 tracks of this album have written and recorded between 13th February to 5th of March 2026. Total duration is 01:33:21 (10 main tracks plus 7 bonus (collaboration) track(s), so totally 17 tracks).

Many thanx to the following musician for his collaboration with me to the bonus tracks of this album :

– {AN} Eel (Neal D. Retke) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for my rerwork to his track : no 11 “Monks Lick Lips”.

There are also 3 previous remixes/reworks by me to his music and 3 by him to mine on my previous albums : “Enclosed Sky”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”,”Vauge Emotions”, “Unsolved Labyrinth Remixed (By Various Artists)” & “Forgotten Crimes”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by {AN} Eel netlabel called and I hope there are more in the future.

Here are some {AN} Eel/Neal D. Retke links :
panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/-AN-Eel-Neal-D-Retke–499622230055214/
www.discogs.com/artist/2768834-Neal-D-Retke
deepwhitesound.com/an-eel/


– Sabila Orbe (Rancagua, Chile) and his projects Filmy Ghost, Insectoid Girl, Yaka-anima and Miss Spectra (Rancagua, Chile – Born: Cali, Colombia) (along with Sabila Orbe) and their project Humanfobia for our collaboration track (me adding music to their voice track) : no 12 “Fire Walk With Me”.

There are more collaborations with the projects above with 32 tracks inluded on my previous albums “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”, “Greatest Failure”, ”This Feeling”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Humanfobia’s Letargo Sumergido E.P. Reworks”, “Subduction Zone”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Humanfobia’s Realidades Paralelas Reworks”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, the compilation “Mean Flow x Humanfobia – ▼​👻​░​░​░ (2022)”,”Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Demolition Of Ideals” & “Exhausted”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by Mist Spectra/Humanfobia netlabels called “Cian Orbe”, “Gothic Spectra Compilation”, “Internet Daemon Netlabel” & “Dawn Of Darkness”.

Here are Filmy Ghost, Yaka-anima, Humanfobia, Insectoid Girl, Cian Orbe, Gothic Spectrea Compilations, Internet Daemon Netlabel, etc various sites (older & newer) :
humanfobia.jimdo.com
soundcloud.com/humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/humanfobia/
www.discogs.com/artist/5341348-Humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.blogspot.com
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/insectoid-girl/
bandcamp.com/tag/sabila-orbe/
filmyghost-humanfobia-doppelganger.bandcamp.com/music/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
insectoidgirl.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/yaka.anima.noise/
humanfobia.jimdo.com/insectoid-girl/
gothicspectracompilation.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/1702681-Gothic-Spectra/
internetdaemon.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/2098360-Internet-Daemon/
archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Internet+Daemon+Netlabel%22/
archive.org/details/dawn-of-darkness/
www.soundshiva.net/netlabel/internet-daemon/
www.discogs.com/label/3828785-Dawn-Of-Darkness/
www.instagram.com/dawn.of.darkness.compilations/
www.reverbnation.com/dawnofdarknesscompilations/
www.facebook.com/dawnofdarkness.netlabel/


– Marco Lucchi (Modena, Italy) for my rework in his 4 tracks : no 11 “The Scarecrow [Naviar Haiku # 629]”, no 12 “Arpeggios Are Very Selfish N*5”, no 13 “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen” & no 14 “Slowly Gliding [Naviar Haiku # 632]”.

Other 289 Marco Lucchi’s tracks, remixed/reworked by Mean Flow are also included in my previous albums “Viridis Achates”, “Inmost Silence”, “Floating Thoughts”, “Blurred Imagination”, “Eternal Question”, “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Dark View”, “Noise Elegance”, “Distant View”, “Obscure Details”, “Greatest Failure”, “This Feeling”, “Marco Lucchi’s 100 First Reworked Tracks”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Subduction Zone”, “Winter Tales”, “Anchored Dreams”, “Vauge Emotions”, “Directed Public Awareness”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, “Tunnel Vision”, “Ιnsufficient Εnergy”, “Low Profile”, Secret Place”, “Unknown Aspects”, “Endless Destination”, “Timeless Experiences”, ”Elegant Plan”, “Under Epidermis”, “Temporary Respite”, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 2″, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 3″, “Τhe Τruth Οf Εach”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 4”, “Dead End”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 5”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 6”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Social Castration”, “Creative Destruction”, “Forgotten Crimes”, “Rights Vs Prejudices”, “Marco Lucchi’s Mello_w_tron Reworked”, “Hollow Impressiveness”, “Profit Sacrifices”, “Under Destruction”, “Preset Sensitivity”, “Unhealed Scars”, “Traceless”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 7”, “Pointless”, “Decriminalized Pleasures”, “Hidden Items”, “Marginalized Snapshots”, “Self Destruct”, “Law Of Action And Reaction”, “Pensive Mood”, “40 Years”, “Demystification”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 8”, “Tired”, “Outside”, “New Member”, “Sad But True”, “Demolition Of Ideals”, “Soft Razors”, “Guilty Silence”, “Fundamental Elements”, “Imagination Release”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 9”, “Truth Or Dare”, “Short Journey, Infinite Distance”, “No Fair”, “Cornucopia Of Pleasures”, “Green”, “Unpleasant Expectations”, “Sky Limit”, “Destruction Signature”, “Mortgaged Life”, “Life Will Never Stop Being Unfair, Very Unfair”, “Crushed Life”, “Haunted Figurehead”, “Truth Relativism”, “Abnormal Regularity”, “Attribution Of Blame”, “Convalescence”, “Abuse Of Power “, “Unjust Guilt”, “Democratic Dictatorship”, “Clarity Over Compulsion”, “Fight The Sickness”, “Online Decay”, “Negotiated Portrayal”, “Meaningless Purpose”, “Mental Reset”, ”Allegorical Interpretation’ & “High Mental Load”‘.

Here are Marco Lucchi’s facebook, bandcamp & soundcloud links of his too many and very good releases :
www.facebook.com/Marco-Lucchi-110608112312364/ & www.facebook.com/orchestra-eclettica-e-sincretista-111790807863/
www.facebook.com/musichevirtuali
marcolucchi.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/marcolucchi & soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
soundcloud.com/flyingtonefis


– Scott Lawlor (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.) for my remix to his track : no 14 “Glittering Lights Above The Clouds”.

There are also 7 tracks made by Scott Lawlor and reworked/remixed by Mean Flow for a collaboration album called “Nocturnes, Volume 8”. It’s a part of project where many people rework/remix all of some of these tracks for collaboration albums. First 2 parts of these reworks are included also on my previous album “40 Years”.

Here are some Scott Lawlor links (and links you can find Scott’s music) :
scottlawlor.bandcamp.com
auralfilms.bandcamp.com
earthmantra.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/c/ScottLawlor
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089272444198


– Finally ArtKlang, a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro and his solo project “SRVTR” (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) for my rework to his track : no 13 “Nuit Blanche”.
ArtKlang is a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro (solo project “SRVTR”) (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) and Bruno Green (Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)

There are other 13 SRVTR reworked tracks by me included on my previous albums : “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Dark View”, “Obscure Details”, “Dead End”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure” & “Ambient Landscapes”.
There was also a collbaration track of ours called “Bug Sound” and there were 16 remixes by many various artists to this collaboration track, including also 2 remixes by each of us (Mean Flow & SRVTR), that released as an album called “SRVTR/ Mean Flow : Bug Sound Remixed” in SRVTR’s bandcamp link : srvtr.bandcamp.com/album/srvtr-mean-flow-bug-sound-remixed.
This collaboration track “Bug Sound” and my Mean Flow remix of it were included on my previous album “Eternal Question”.
Also he remixed Mean Flow’s track “Frozen Lake (SRVTR Remix)” included on my previous album “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”.

Here is ArtKlang bandcamp link :
artklang.bandcamp.com

Here are some Gildas Brugaro/SRVTR links :
www.facebook.com/GildasBrugaroSRVTR/
srvtr.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/gildas-brugaro
www.mixcloud.com/discover/srvtr/
open.spotify.com/artist/0LPvoRA2nHLAom7ivGQETm

And here are Bruno Green links :
brunogreen.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/bruno.green.989173


All other music, keyboards, any kind instruments, sounds-noises, sound effects to rest of the songs made by Mean Flow (Theofil Tsiolakakis), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Many thanx to all people who like and support my music. 

rauðvik – blóðsjúkdómur (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

A ponderance on the cosmic horrors in the shadows, just beyond the veil of what you can see.

The sky and the cosmos are one.

Special thanks to everyone at FromSoftware for Bloodborne, which served as the inspiration for and subject matter of this album.

All sounds designed by rauðvik at Overlook Studios
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by rauðvik at Overlook Studios
Cover photo by Nephron – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9716436
Text added by rauðvik

Antonio Gallucci – Hope for Nothingness as Something (Dinzu Artefacts)

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Label Description:

A two-chapter suite for modular & FM synth, wind & string instruments, electronics, sound objects and field recordings. The work is structured as a two-chapter descent from concrete score to analog & digital abstraction. It begins with the tangible written material and human presence of the performers, which are systematically subjected to a process of erosion. The initial components are reduced to “digital dust” — meaningless data fragments — then recombined algorithmically. This process entirely empties the material of its original structure and meaning. The work culminates in a final, unreal space, becoming a meditation on the transformation of human intention into pure, post-human data.

The notion of Hope for Nothingness as Something is a radical philosophical pivot, shifting the focus of human aspiration from tangible acquisition to ultimate negation. There’s a profound psychological shift: the very concept we often fear or dismiss as empty can be re-framed as an object of desire, value, or ultimate meaning. This concept draws its discursive power from its inherent paradox: desiring an absence and treating that absence as the most valuable presence.

“Is nothingness the same as nothing? Everything evolves around that. Absolute discardment, because there is hope only where nothing is retained. The fullness of nothingness. That is the reason for the insistence on the zero point.”

– T. Adorno

All tracks composed, played, mixed and mastered by Antonio Gallucci @ Mercurial Studio in Pistoia (Italy) between May and October 2025.

Antonio Gallucci is a musician, sound engineer, and digital technology expert born and raised in South Italy. He lives and works in Tuscany. His works reveal a poetic and conceptual dimension that leverages the use of new and old technologies, found objects and sounds, and the extreme
manipulation of sources, within a reflective and conscious aural experience. Over the past 25 years, he has collaborated with museums, theaters, artists, and international record labels.

Cover art by Aaron Owens

Colin Stetson / Greg Fox / Trevor Dunn – Nethering (Envision Records)

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Label Description: Recorded in 2018, the friends improvised and let their creativity go wild. The album is the first in a collaboration series Colin Stetson has been working on between soundtrack and solo projects over the past few years. Envision Records (North America) along with their label partner Invada (ROW) will be releasing Colin Stetson’s series of minimal free jazz and improvised collaborations – essentially, snapshots of sonic and visual moments in time.

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

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Label Description:

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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Label Description:

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