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Shanghai collective SVBKVLT tell the story of their groundbreaking approach to club music.

Yen Tech and Jingxin Wang satirise post-human nihilism with 'Extinction Game', a highlight from the producer's new album, Assembler.

Julianknxx considers breath and Black bodies in Black Corporeal (Between This Air) “A critical examination of the relationship between materiality and the Black psyche.” When we think about what it means to breathe in 2021, the shadows of the trauma of the global pandemic and the brutal violence of a relentless procession of contemporary manifestations of structural racism loom large. The effects of COVID-19 are inextricably linked with the act of breathing in the present day, just as is th...

Fact Mix 807: Yen Tech Share this: Fact Mix 807: Yen Tech Part emotional odyssey, part experimental radio play, the SVBKVLT artist holds up a fractured mirror to the absurdity of contemporary times. Yen Tech guides us through an extraordinary aural retelling of an alternative cultural history of the COVID-19 pandemic in his sprawling Fact mix, which weaves together text-to-script speech, AI language models and a breathtaking suite of experimental music, selected and compiled solely for its emot...

Yuko Araki channels noisy psychedelia for ‘Moonstroke in the Mountain’ Daisy Dickinson lends an acid-laced visual response to Araki’s euphoric cacophony. Yuko Araki is at the forefront of an emerging scene of young female artists from Japan shedding new light on noise, experimental electronics and post-industrial techno. Drawing inspiration from ’70s prog-rock and free jazz, Araki’s approach to her cacophonous compositions is expansive and fluid, oscillating between tension and releas...