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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73–84 of 252 publications
Three musicians with double bass, electronics and microphones in the industrial interior of Kraftwerk, Berlin.
STM 134

James Ginzburg & Yair Elazar Glotman

A companion to Nimbes, bringing together 16 pieces that trace the pair's shared interest in acoustic space, resonance and slowly unfolding sound.

Ben Vida in a black cap, glasses and dark sweater, looking down.
STM 133

Ben Vida

Afro-Cuban batá recordings become control signals for a modular synthesizer. Nine digital tracings retain the unstable pulse of human percussion while pulling it into unfamiliar forms.

Polar Inertia, archival photograph from the Secret Thirteen cover.
STM 131

Polar Inertia

Polar Inertia slows the pulse to 112 BPM for a specially recorded studio improvisation. Edited from a night of experimentation, the live set drifts through cinematic noise and gradually emerging rhythms.

Gábor Lázár in front of a minimalist backdrop of black abstract lines.
STM 130

Gábor Lázár

Wendy Carlos’s demonstrations of synthesis frame a study in fractured rhythm, from algorithmic percussion and techno to a pop song dismantled and reordered by the likeness of its sounds.

Album Covers with Skulls · Nate Young — Regression
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Album Covers with Skulls

A skull moves between mortality, ritual, humour and provocation across these album covers.

Close monochrome portrait of Frans de Waard.
STM 129

Frans de Waard

A musical autobiography traces the shared impulses of minimalism, Dutch post-punk and tape experiment, with personal notes on the records that shaped a lifelong commitment to DIY sound.

The five members of DSCRD standing together in a dark setting.
STM 128

DSCRD

Electroacoustic works, field recordings and traditional music converge in a patient exploration of trance and ritual, where layered fragments find a shared space beyond their origins.

Roberto Crippa standing beside a textured concrete wall.
STM 127

Roberto Crippa

Acoustic objects, voices and electronic noise become materials for an architectural study of sound, moving between close physical textures and cavernous spaces charged with tension.

Mira Calix with her eyes closed and a slight smile in an intimate black-and-white portrait.
STM 126

Mira Calix

Recorded live in one take as summer gives way to autumn, twenty-three selections draw voices, cello and electroacoustic detail into a personal sequence of familiar comforts, new discoveries and changing seasons.

Clock DVA, archival photograph from the Secret Thirteen cover.
STM 125

Clock DVA

Adi Newton celebrates the journal’s third birthday with 14 formative selections. Tape experiments, jazz and early electronics reveal the influences behind Clock DVA’s approach to composition and sound.

HIV+, archival artist photograph.
STM 124

HIV+

HIV+ opens his home-studio record bag for a noirish, predominantly vinyl selection. Unknown Pleasures releases meet industrial, EBM and dark-wave records in a tightly sustained hour of tension.

EVOL standing on rocks beside the sea.
STM 123

EVOL

Studio tests, discarded edits and live fragments from 2009–2014 are spliced into a split-channel collage, turning rave synthesis into unstable patterns assembled between Alloa and Barcelona.

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