DJ S13
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DJ S13

Founder · Editor · DJ

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

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145–156 of 252 publications
Demdike Stare performing in shadow beneath a blue-toned projection of a face.
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Demdike Stare

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.

Ian Hawgood — archive featured photograph
Interview

Ian Hawgood — Care, Sound and Home Normal

The composer and Home Normal curator on damaged tape, emotional honesty and the work of an independent label. The original 2013 interview, with a separate 2026 editorial on the care that sustains it.

Gintas K reflected behind geometric glass panels and dark horizontal bars.
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Gintas K

Sine waves, environmental sound and industrial song reveal three decades of formative listening, with near-complete pieces allowing tiny shifts in texture to emerge beside moments of unexpected warmth.

Oren Ambarchi, archival artist photograph.
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Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi shares the records that accompanied his travels: twenty-six richly melodic selections, from Pat Metheny and Fleetwood Mac to Blue Gene Tyranny, revealing the song-centred side of his listening.

HTRK, archival photograph from the Secret Thirteen cover.
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HTRK

Nigel Yang of HTRK lets eight expansive pieces unfold almost in full. Beginning with a midnight raga, the mix explores inner calm, lucid dreaming and the crystal beauty of sound.

Presha in a dark portrait against a wall of red and black record sleeves.
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Presha

Unreleased bass experiments and early drum and bass thread through shadowy ambient music, tracing a personal collection where suspended textures give way to restless percussion and sharply drawn contrasts.

Quinoline Yellow beside a yellow and turquoise industrial machine, in a grainy colour photograph.
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Quinoline Yellow

Pirate-radio energy, fractured electronics and jungle collide with film dialogue and stray voices, forming a densely assembled collage whose abrupt turns reveal the playful logic beneath its restless surface.

Simon Scott in profile behind overlapping abstract shapes, in a monochrome photograph.
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Simon Scott

Acoustic guitar, exploratory jazz and contemporary composition unfold in an unhurried sequence, where delicate improvisation and resonant strings make room for intimate songs and quietly shifting emotion.

Joachim Sauter — archive featured photograph
Interview

Joachim Sauter — The Poetry of Motion

The ART+COM co-founder on space, experimentation and the work that joins digital systems to physical movement. His 2013 conversation accompanies kinetic installations and a separate 2026 reflection.

KK Null in dark clothing before carved wooden panels, softly lit from one side.
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KK Null

Musique concrète, orchestral dissonance and raw noise overlap across eighteen sections, with recurring compositions, metal and jazz dissolving into a continuously shifting study of pressure and texture.

Roly Porter standing inside a dark railway tunnel, with a small bright opening in the distance.
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Roly Porter

Poetry, choral voices and contemporary composition open onto stark electronics and crushing guitar, building a dramatic sequence in which fragile stillness repeatedly gives way to overwhelming physical force.

Xhin — archive featured photograph
Interview

Xhin — The Architecture of Instinct

The Singapore producer on a restless studio practice, creative advice and sound’s spatial possibilities. A 2013 conversation that reaches from musical beginnings to architecture and the industry ahead.

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