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Establishing good communication between underground media outlets and up-and-coming artists is not always an easy task. Secret Thirteen identified essential points for making things smoother.

Establishing good communication between underground media outlets and up-and-coming artists is not always an easy task. Secret Thirteen identified essential points for making things smoother.
Berlin Atonal returns to Kraftwerk with world premieres, audiovisual performances and spatial sound installations, spanning electronic music’s pioneering and contemporary generations.
A first departure from techno revisits the vinyl that shaped an early musical life: new wave, industrial and dream pop, linked by memories of taped radio shows and the intimacy of shared records.
An ambient dub genealogy links Birmingham’s Oscillate circle with electronic pioneers, tracing a time when shared curiosity mattered more than genre boundaries.
Field recordings, circuit-bent textures and slowly shifting atmospheres form a layered collage, bringing mathematical precision into contact with ritual, memory and the physical effects of sound.
Identity as a licence to be different. Rrose on Duchamp, Dada, digital tools and the unpredictable physical world that shapes a piece of music.
Unpublished archive recordings meet modern composition and spoken text in a meditation on repetition, accompanied by a manifesto that treats reproduction itself as an artistic method.
Sasu Ripatti on making his own sound, setting traps for improvisation and staying critical. A conversation about music beyond instruments, scenes and expectations.
Ensemble Economique builds an entire mix inside Ground Zero’s Consume Red. Field recordings, his own material and twelve overlapping sources form a dense, dreamlike composition rather than a linear playlist.
Racehorses Are Resources connect Detroit’s early blues memory with hip-hop, noise and improvisation. Their debut mix unfolds through unreleased collaborations, poetry and the meeting points between musical traditions.
Industrial electronics, tape experiments and fractured rhythms form a soundtrack to an imagined post-apocalyptic film, where patient transitions let moments of calm gather into dense sonic pressure.
Twelve sonic lullabies trace a path through gamelan, Kenyan song, minimal pop and abstract electronics, using warm repetition to summon the private images and parallel worlds of half-sleep.