Secret Thirteen Mix 319

Ottoman Grüw

GEOGRAPHY OF ASCENT / DISSENT

39 selections connect EBM, industrial, ambient and post-rock, including four unreleased works from his own projects. A two-hour mix shaped by Paris, Montreal, Berlin and Brussels.

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OTTOMAN GRÜW among warm red steel beams, with motion blur and the complete visible boot above a grey floor.
Audio archaeology / Since 2010

Beyond the obvious.

Mixes, interviews and underground histories. Independently run from Lithuania.

Recent
signals.

Swarm Intelligence — performing beneath a diagonal stage light.
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Two turntables, a mixer and a reverb pedal turn 36 records into a 124-minute pressure system. Noise reveals melody as rhythm gathers weight.

Elmer Davy — standing beside a brick wall in a grey sweatshirt.
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Elmer Davy maps a dark yet playful electro route through Spanish underground talent, Ombra memory, vinyl culture and Detroit-rooted machine funk.

NX1 — Surit and Samot seated together in a dark room.
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NX1

Barcelona duo NX1 step away from the obvious club grammar. An hour of slow weather where Drexciya, Coil, Doxa Sinistra and the records they listen to when no one is watching teach structure how to dissolve without leaving the room.

Celldöd — editorial photograph
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Anders Karlsson maps the DIY, punky underside of Swedish electronic music — an all-vinyl excavation spanning Konduktör Rekords, Enhänta Bödlar, Twice A Man and beyond, processed live through hardware.

TRSSX — a long-exposure portrait with blurred light trails.
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TRSSX delivers an 86-minute all-vinyl mix across three turntables — a deep journey through industrial drone, polyrhythmic techno and dark ambient from the co-founder of Glasgow's EXIT club.

MITH-XX performing with hands over electronic instruments and cables in a dark room with subtle coloured reflections.
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A monumental return to the source. MITH-XX constructs a 3-hour eulogy for a collapsing world—bridging Power Electronics roots with the rawest edges of the contemporary underground.

DYL in a dark jacket beside a softly shadowed wall, with a restrained blue horizontal film treatment.
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DYL

Eduard Costea breaks the silence with a raw live recording of unreleased material, weaving a timeless narrative of 170 BPM rhythms, colossal reverbs, and hypnotic 4x4 textures to mark the launch of Achordat.

Unexpected
finds.

Stephen Vitiello wearing glasses and a denim jacket in a cool-toned portrait.
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Children’s voices connect home recordings, pop songs and unsettling film scenes, moving from unguarded play to electronically altered speech in a sequence that gradually complicates its initial innocence.

Adam Fowler
Interviews

The Brooklyn artist on cutting graphite drawings into paper lace, working with galleries and the line between drawing and sculpture. An illustrated 2013 conversation about gesture, complexity and the work of making.

Vinyl-on-demand original label symbol.
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Frank Maier on forgotten recordings, cassette culture and the work of assembling an archive. The original 2013 interview accompanies an eighteen-track Vinyl-on-demand mix.

Posh Isolation original label symbol.
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Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard on a shared vision, digital releases and the Copenhagen community. Their 2018 conversation accompanies an eighteen-track selection from Posh Isolation.

From the
archive.

Selected by the editors.

Biosphere, archival photograph from the Secret Thirteen cover.
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Biosphere dedicates a selection of 16 vinyl records to Pete Namlook. Early electronics, industrial atmospheres and resilient melodies evoke the music that first connected their listening worlds.

Helena Hauff, archival photograph from the Secret Thirteen cover.
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Helena Hauff weaves records from 1974–2014 into a narrative beyond genre or period. Nocturnal songs, abrasive punk and industrial pulses reveal influences not always apparent in her own productions.

Demdike Stare performing in shadow beneath a blue-toned projection of a face.
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Demdike Stare brings 23 rediscovered records into a shifting dialogue across eras and cultures. Electroacoustic composition, improvisation and electronic rhythms retain the duo’s distinctive atmosphere of mystery.

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