Tropic Of Cancer
Twenty vinyl records connect the shadowed edges of post-punk, industrial and synth-pop, with submerged rhythms, frayed guitars and spectral voices drawing a line from early eighties experiments to 2012.
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Mixes and original recordings by women, alongside contributions from duos and groups in which women share the work.
Women have shaped this archive through record collecting, composition, performance and sound research. This collection brings those contributions together, from Andrea Parker’s restless electronics and Moniek Darge’s soundscapes to the contrasting musical worlds of Helena Hauff, Félicia Atkinson and Mieko Suzuki.
Individual artists and shared projects appear with their original publication credits. These recordings also belong in other collections across the archive: their music, methods and listening histories remain the starting point.
In this selection
32 recordings / 2012–2019 
Andrea Parker
Two hours connect musique concrète, hip-hop and shadowy electronics, with Daphne Oram reworkings and Touchin’ Bass connections threading through a restless sequence of 51 records, voices and cinematic fragments.
AVaspo
Sound poetry, processed speech and fragments of everyday conversation form a cinematic sentence, using pauses, noise and shifting rhythms to explore forgotten texts and the landscape of memory.
Kyoka
Abstract rhythms and spacious electronics unfold almost in full, allowing each piece its own time and atmosphere. A Swedish studio recording shaped by an image of sound as wind, waves and tides.
DJ Skirt
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.
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.
Helena Hauff
Helena Hauff weaves records from 1974–2014 into a narrative beyond genre or period. Nocturnal songs, abrasive punk and industrial pulses reveal influences not always apparent in her own productions.
LCC
Film scores, dialogue and sound effects become a story of their own, moving from the unease of Persona and Videodrome to the suspended beauty of Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt.
Sally Dige
Coldwave intimacy meets the emotional pull of pop, as Cult Club and Petroleum By-Product sit alongside Propaganda, Hard Corps and the Pet Shop Boys in a dialogue between influences and new work.
Moniek Darge
Moniek Darge assembles four decades of her own field recordings and soundscape experiments — from Brazil and Tamil Nadu to Hong Kong and Ghent — into a mix that dissolves the boundary between document and composition.
Chra
Chra of Comfortzone and Editions Mego takes us on an ambient journey of female avant-garde music through varying moods and geographies.
Stine Janvin Motland
Stine Janvin Motland brings classical music, experimental electronics, political poetry and pop into a challenging reflection on race and collective identity. Muhammad Ali, Amiri Baraka, M.I.A. and Kendrick Lamar appear alongside intimate sounds and fractured rhythms.
Bestial Mouths
Bestial Mouths rebuild minimal and dub techno with field recordings, unreleased studio fragments and Lynette Cerezo’s voice, recorded for this session. Twenty-six selections become a sparse, grim ritual where industrial textures and human vulnerability collide.
Félicia Atkinson
Félicia Atkinson gathers eighteen intimate, exploratory recordings into a warm journey across continents. Pharoah Sanders’ “Love Is Everywhere” forms its radiant centre, surrounded by field recordings, new age, folk and adventurous sound art.
Paper Dollhouse
Paper Dollhouse drift between haunted melodies, ambient spaces and distant rave memories, threading their own MoonDome recordings through a luminous, dreamlike selection.
Fanny Kaplan
Fanny Kaplan connect Russian underground recordings with early avant-garde experiments, drawing a tense line through industrial rhythms, fractured songs and voices from another century.
Erin Arthur
Erin Arthur connects the strange textures and rhythmic possibilities of 1990s electronics, moving through IDM, dub, noise and intimate melodic discoveries with an expansive personal selection.
FOQL
FOQL opens a window onto Polish experimental music, joining tape-era underground recordings, spoken fragments and contemporary electronics in a restless collage across three decades.
Beta Evers
Beta Evers journeys through dark electro, minimal electronics and industrial music, placing her own collaborations beside kindred underground voices in a carefully paced, personal selection.
Ewa Justka
Ewa Justka pushes her handmade instruments into a volatile live performance, where light, circuitry and physical experimentation become abrasive rhythms and unstable electronic textures.
Chikiss
Chikiss returns to her teenage years with an eclectic selection of Russian and Belarusian music from the 1990s, sharing underground rarities, unruly pop and memories of a changing world.
Hiro Kone
Hiro Kone assembles a boundless mix of subtle abstractions, post-punk mutations and classical daydreams, drawing emotional connections between concise fragments and a collaboration with Drew McDowall.
Eva Geist
Eva Geist explores water through experimental, ambient, new age and library music, shaping 23 selections into a meditative collage of nocturnal stillness, fluid rhythms and shimmering imaginary landscapes.
E-Saggila
Rita Mikhael, aka E-Saggila of Summer Isle, delivers a deep and heavy mix of techno, hardcore and shadowy electronic gems, moving from abrasive rhythmic pressure towards slower, bass-heavy depths.
Silvia Kastel
Silvia Kastel balances digital synthesis, organic percussion and fractured rhythms, bringing Japanese composers into conversation with contemporary experiments in a vivid study of tension and release.
Nina
Nina traces the darker edges of ambient music through 19 selections, connecting physical textures, acoustic experiments and microscopic shifts into a patient, immersive stream of sound.
Mieko Suzuki
Mieko Suzuki layers 24 selections and her own field recordings into a collage of industrial rhythms, cloudy ambience and intimate sonic detail, sustaining a restless narrative in under 40 minutes.
Bérangère Maximin
Bérangère Maximin leads a cinematic journey through acousmatic textures, sound poetry and political collage, weaving three interconnected movements from intimate listening, personal recordings and restless sonic curiosity.
Rosa Damask
Rosa Damask records a sophisticated, slow-burning mix full of roughly sensual atmospheres, moving from experimental ambient to noisy electronics and paying homage to Mika Vainio along the way.
Paco Sala
Paco Sala shape a cinematic narrative from haunted synth passages, lo-fi rhythms and Japanese chamber pop, tracing a warm but unpredictable route through their shared musical world.
Sarah Louise
Sarah Louise connects Appalachian tradition with the avant-garde, threading folk songs, minimalism, psychedelic rock and spiritual jazz into a journey that makes their shared roots audible.
Okkre
Okkre turns field recordings, ritual voices and forceful electronics into a vivid sonic journey, bringing personal recordings into dialogue with dense rhythms and expansive, dreamlike spaces.
The existing Mixcloud playlist order is retained. Original publication pages preserve the full credits and context.
Playlist on Mixcloud