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.

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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.