DJ S13
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DJ S13

Founder · Editor · DJ

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

Publications archive

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Aerobica sitting beside stone steps in a grainy monochrome portrait.
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Aerobica

Rare minimal wave records, borrowed tapes and fragments of film dialogue explore isolation and failed communication, with intimate voices and rough-edged synthesizers carrying a quietly unsettling narrative.

The Sight Below performing under a dark hood, with blue stage lights in the foreground.
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The Sight Below

Prepared piano, blurred guitars and electronic pulses move through luminous, intimate spaces, linking ambient composition and shoegaze in a sequence whose emotional weight emerges from gradual transitions.

Ran Slavin — archive featured photograph
Interview

Ran Slavin — Between Dream and City

The filmmaker and composer on silence, Showing Light and the city as a living organism. Ran Slavin moves between sound, cinema, technology and the subconscious.

Geistform adjusting an analogue oscillator beside a keyboard in a green-tinted archival photograph.
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Geistform

A live sequence of oscillators, samplers and analogue synthesizers turns precise signals into restless physical rhythms, revealing how small improvisations reshape the geometry of industrial electronics.

Lorenzo Durantini — archive featured photograph
Interview

Lorenzo Durantini — Occupy Everything

The artist, writer and curator on political beginnings, studio practice and the life of an image. An illustrated 2013 conversation about making work, finding recognition and keeping curiosity open.

Kye original label wordmark.
STS 004

Kye

Graham Lambkin on musical beginnings, unexpected discoveries and the physical life of Kye records. The original 2013 conversation accompanies his eleven-track selection.

Nils Völker
Interview

Nils Völker — Giving Air a Shape

The Berlin artist on turning ordinary materials into moving installations. Air, light and physical computing meet in this 2013 conversation, illustrated with the works and films discussed in the interview.

Rafael Anton Irisarri — archive featured photograph
Interview

Rafael Anton Irisarri — Listening and Attention

The composer behind The Sight Below on attentive listening, The Unintentional Sea and curating Substrata. The complete 2013 conversation, followed by separately dated 2026 reflections.

Shapednoise seated in black clothing against a tiled wall.
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Shapednoise

Futurist speech, musique concrète and modern noise collide with industrial rhythm and jungle, tracing a path from early sonic experiments to dense contemporary production without losing its dramatic tension.

A plain muted pink colour field for Pinkcourtesyphone.
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Pinkcourtesyphone

Old songs, abstract electronics and unreleased collaborations drift through a dense, dreamlike sequence, where voices and slow-moving rhythms repeatedly dissolve into unfamiliar shapes.

Koen Holtkamp in a monochrome portrait against shelves of records, wearing a plain dark shirt.
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Koen Holtkamp

A relaxed turntable session preserves the crackle of old records as devotional jazz, choral music and acoustic experimentation unfold, finding unexpected affinities through patient, unforced transitions.

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