Justinas S13
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Justinas S13

Founder · Editor · DJ

Justinas Mikulskis founded Secret Thirteen in 2010 and leads its editorial direction.

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Liam Andrews, known as AICHER, photographed from behind in a reflective black coat on the northern coast of Denmark.
STM 321

AICHER

AICHER reopens the recordings around Defensive Acoustics, bringing live fragments, alternate versions and collaborations into an hour assembled from his own working archive.

Emra Grid in a cap and sunglasses beneath diagonal ceiling lights, in black and white
STM 320

Emra Grid

Film voices, distorted jazz, flute recordings and music made in Yogyakarta run through Sean Piñeiro’s mix. His own recordings and synths get between them, making it difficult to tell where one piece ends and another has already begun.

A torn fragment of an earlier Secret Thirteen website, with its old layout and artwork grid against black paper.
Journal

Rebuilding the website

More than a year of evenings, weekends and starting again. A personal note on rebuilding the website and everything that went into it.

OTTOMAN GRÜW among warm red steel beams, with motion blur and the complete visible boot above a grey floor.
STM 319

Ottoman Grüw

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.

Swarm Intelligence — performing beneath a diagonal stage light.
STM 318

Swarm Intelligence

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.
STM 317

Elmer Davy

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.
STM 316

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.

William Maybelline of QUAL performing live amid stage smoke.
Interview

QUAL — Romance Can Slay the Dragon

William Maybelline of QUAL on body, battle, Love Zone, old machines, romance as brutality, and staying true without kissing ass or crowd-pleasing.

Celldöd — editorial photograph
STM 315

Celldöd

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.
STM 314

TRSSX

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.
STM 313

MITH-XX

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.
STM 312

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.

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