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For the upcoming fourth edition of Sunday School, a ritual gathering of sonic blasphemy and rave-fuelled devotion, London-based musician Jim Janco steps into the pulpit with A Wilderness Mix—a cryptic sermon through weird, experimental and underground sounds. Janco, the mind behind People Drift—a roving techno night grounded in South East London’s freeform spirit—has carved out a reputation for pushing dance music into stranger dimensions. His background weaves through the raw edges of DIY punk, the pulse of ’90s techno, and the deep throb of sound system culture—a combination that informs every part of this mix. In this Wilderness Mix for SSIV, Janco charts a path through live instrumentation and synthetic tension. It’s both personal and expansive, bridging old favourites with new discoveries. Janco’s Wilderness Mix fully captures the Sunday School ethos: dark, devotional, and defiantly off-grid, an invitation to sink beneath the flicker of strobe and sacrilege. Sunday School IV: The Hand of Satan will ta

We are presenting our latest auditory journey curated by Taroug for CLOT Magazine's mixtape series. Taroug is the solo project of drummer and electronic music producer Tarek Zarroug, whose unique perspective is shaped by his roots in the suburbs of the Tunisian desert and his upbringing in Germany. Following his 2020 EP "Perpetual" and a series of notable remixes for artists such as Archive, Taroug has continued to evolve and refine his musical aesthetic. Taroug’s debut album, Darts & Kites, was released on Denovali Records. Drawing inspiration from the infinite possibilities of Penrose tiling, the album explores themes of change and transformation. This fascination is reflected in the album's nine tracks and cover art design, creating a cohesive artistic vision. The album presents a captivating blend of genres and styles, resulting in a sonic landscape that is both haunting and beautiful while weaving together experimental and abstract soundscapes with oriental influences, collected field recordings, pulsa

Introducing the latest auditory journey curated by Lola de la Mata for CLOT Magazine's mixtape series. Delving into the mysterious realms of sound, the experimental composer presents a meticulously crafted selection of tracks that traverse the boundless landscapes of sonic exploration. Lola de la Mata, a London-born French/Spanish conceptual sound artist, composer, curator, and musician (violin/voice/theremin), boasts a diverse practice spanning performance art, installation, community projects, and electroacoustic composition. Her first release, the feminist concept album REMISE EN BOUCHE (Pan y Rosas Discos 2018), was followed by The Embalmer (Nonclassical 2021) and KOH—Klee—uh (SA Recordings 2022), laying the groundwork for her latest album, Oceans on Azimuth, set for release on May 8th. Currently, Lola’s artistic focus centres around listening and hearing practices, tinnitus and aural diversity, and chronic illness experiences, something she focused on after experiencing a trauma episode herself. Rathe

The latest mixtape instalment hails from Seoul-based Korean experimental musician Suk Hong, offering a curated selection of tracks that traverse the artist's creative journey for their upcoming project. Suk Hong's musical style gracefully navigates between neo-classical and electronic influences. Fresh from their recent release on Unseelie, an NYC-based label, Suk Hong returns with a more introspective and expansive piece, My Day is Sold by the Hour, which debuted at the start of March on endonesia, an alternative art platform based between New York and Seoul. Recorded amidst the misty atmosphere of the Guro district, Korea's bustling digital industrial complex, My Day is Sold by the Hour encapsulates the essence of its surroundings through sonic storytelling. While the area is blanketed in fog, its stories are evident sonically. String instrumentations echo like distant growls, while a tapestry of field recordings collected over three years weaves a textured narrative within a granular, deconstructed fra

Next in our mixtape series, we welcome London-based musician and DJ Aventex (aka Alec Tullio) with a mixtape he has prepared ahead of his performance at our next event, Portals 02.. The Australian artist is a staple fixture of the London experimental and noise-punk scenes. He is involved in several bands (Keno, Skitter, Zek) where he drives the fast-paced rhythmic lines with his relentless and precise drumming. One of his main current projects, Casing, was born as a solo project during the pandemic, out of existential dread and societal dismay. The project, which has received lots of positive reception and press attention, has since evolved into a full band (with Dom Stevenson, also from Keno, and Liam Cadogan of Eros Catheter) for live performances and recordings. Patterns of Deterioration, Casing's first EP, was described as a six-song dive into depravity, nihilism, and desperation. It was praised as one of the most exciting newcomer voices in noise-punk. Over a year of live shows, Casing developed in

The next mixtape is by Greek/UK-based artist Viki Steiri, who has recently released her debut album on our beloved Alien Jams. The mix is a recollection of sounds that inspired her for her album production. 'Balm' is a powerful album anchored by ritualistic, monolithic cello layers. Steiri combines eerie soundscapes with electronic dance rhythms, synth-tinged folk songs from Istanbul, and reworked cello and santur improvisations. The album encapsulates a hauntingly poignant journey through melancholic soundscapes punctuated by electronic rhythms. Recorded intermittently between Athens and London over six years from 2017 to 2023, the collection of tracks serves as a deeply personal documentation of the artist's experiences and emotions. Steiri's compositions for this album navigate themes of rootlessness, loss, and identity changes, reflecting the tumultuous nature of existence. However, amidst all, there is a profound exploration of humanness, delving into the realms of imagination and introspection. Steir

Next on our mixtape series is Bersarin Quartett, the solo project of German electronic musician Thomas Bücker, with a delicate selection ranging from film scores, to gaming, and ambient tracks. Working within the realms of modern classical and ambient music, Bücker has garnered acclaim for his contributions as Bersarin Quartett (which he has been running for over 15 years), notably through his publications with Denovali Records. Bersarin Quartett's sonic landscapes are distinguished by a fusion of atmospheric textures, electronic nuances, and classical instrumentation, crafting a singular and emotive auditory journey. Bücker's oeuvre has earned widespread praise for its unique stylistic approach, captivating both ambient and experimental music audiences alike. A heavy sense of melancholy runs through the Bersarin Quartett sonic core, which Bücker confirms is indeed a big part of the project. The Quartett's most recent release, Systeme, also released on Denovali, marks its fifth release. It is described as p

We kick off the year with a mixtape from Six Missing, the ambient music project from Austin-based TJ Dumser, with which he wants to take us on a journey with pieces that transcend the illusion of time - transporting you into a timeless, formless, galactic-jell-o. The artist, who is also a sound designer and composer, began releasing music under the name Six Missing in 2017, a moniker that he took after experiencing a supernatural experience while recording in a studio near the site of the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, in which six participants remain unaccounted for. For Dumser, Six Missing is a way of experiencing music that is meant for inner journeying, calming sensations, and finding peace. The project started by experimenting with ambient and modular systems, and several albums down the line, Six Missing released his latest album in December last year. Titled Here For Now, the album deals with themes around being in the present moment - especially during uncertain time

The last instalment of the year arrives from the hands of Furtherset, the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi, with a mix especially suited for the melancholic nights of December. With Furtherset, the artist has defined his personal sound, mainly composed of layers of timbre-modulated sounds and dense rhythmic geometric passages converging towards a single harmonic plane. His music touches on ambient, modern classical and rave, building on his approach to composition with shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. Furthersetmentions that the project, which began in 2011, is envisaged as formal research that follows a path towards saturation and layering but is always capable of generating voids in which the listener can take their place and fill them according to their own focus. Furtherset has released several EPs and two albums with the record label OUS, with whom he’s signed with. His most recent one, The Infinite Hour, released

The next mixtape instalment is by experimental musician Colin Andrew Sheffield. Born in El Paso and now based in Austin, Sheffield took his passion from being a self-taught drummer in Texas to a total transition to electronic music. For this mix, he’s compiled a captivating selection of experimental electronic music. Since the mid-90s, Sheffield’s work has consistently focused on the use of samples: deconstructed loops of hidden melodies and textures found in his collection of physical media. Through the re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings, like an alchemist of audio collage, he aims to distil the essential qualities of these works and convert them into new recordings. Sheffield’s music is full of atmospheric soundscapes, which shift and unfold, offering subtle waves and suspended stillness. From earlier work like First Thus (2005) to the most recent Images (2023), Sheffield's solo projects showcase his ability to explore diverse sonic ranges. One of our favourite records this

Our new mixtape comes from Copenhagen-based experimental R’n’B artist Karen Juhl. Her influences span from the likes of Laurie Anderson and Holly Herndon to Solange. Juhl is interested in exploring different approaches to songwriting in the 21st century, her style ranging from experimental electronics and contemplative poetry to antithetical rap. Her debut album Mother Tongue, released on the 22nd of September, is a dynamic manifestation of her self-written poems and diary entries. The album explores ideas of fragility within a hyper-globalised world, shifting in dynamics from intensely noisy and emotive to calm and reflective. When explaining her process of making the album, Juhl stated that ‘I brought diary notes and prose poems with me into the studio and worked on vocals in a stream-of-consciousness kind of way.’ The album was released on the London-based art platform Inklingroom and worked on with fellow collaborator Johan Feierskov. Using mainly YouTube samples, MIDI instruments and vocals, the album

We are presenting a new mix that will transport you into the enchanting realm of the early autumn months. This special mixtape is curated by VAST HABITAT, a recently established record label, and it showcases a curated selection of artists and music from their freshly minted catalogue, as well as tunes that have inspired and resonated with them. Vast habitat founders are Daniel Lea and Michael Deragon, aka Heliochrysum (Bedroom Community Records), which we have featured in the past. The project grew out of the artists’s desire to create an environment where music, design and art can coalesce. A good demonstration of this is their crafted selection of music and a superb visual approach. The label launched with the release of two new solo albums — Lea's 'ENTHEOGEN' and Deragon's 'DAWN', and a compilation, VHS 001, which is the first in a series of engaging sonic conversations with artists working across electronic music, modern composition, and ambient. The compilation includes a remix by Heliochrysum from P

This week’s mixtape comes from the multidisciplinary music/art project Ghost Tracks. They are a wife/husband team, and Sylvia Girstmair and David Lopez, originally from Austria and Spain but came together in East London. This happy home life hasn’t led them to a place of musical complacency for the duo, though, who also runs the experimental music label Cluster Node. Drawing upon their shared experiences in the art and music scenes, throughout the years, they have cultivated a passion for creating cinematic narratives through their music and visuals. With acoustic and electronic instrumentation, soiled traces of noise and mixed modes of experimentation, their songs present a peculiar intimacy and effortlessness. Ghost tracks sit between a dark lull and eerie, phantasmagoric soundscapes, aiming to create sci-fi soundtracks that evoke vivid and immersive imagery of futuristic dreams and imaginary worlds. They are fresh from a triumphant opening of CLOT and Cluster Node’s PORTALs showcase and presenting here

For our next mixtape instalment, we welcome Lý Trang, a musician-sound artist who will unveil a haunting musical storytelling piece arranged as an abstract dialogue around time travelling. Born and raised in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam, Trang's experiments with hollow rhythms follow folkloric instrumental phrases, and the music buzzes widescreen magic. Moving to Vietnam’s capital Hanoi for school, she connected with the local underground scene, joining Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective for a short period before focusing more on her work as a multimedia artist. In 2018 she self-released ‘Snail Skeleton’, an album that hints at her sonic interests and various live-scoring commissions, soundtracks and installation works. Recently she released her second album, 'Syenite', grounded in a sense of alienation, first when she moved to Hanoi for school and later when she relocated to Moscow just a few months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the Russian capital, her separation from home cracked open a deep y

Concluding our summer season, we invite you to descend into the audio abyss sculpted by the enigmatic Gosha Savage, the solo project of Małgorzata Sawicz, a visual and electronic artist hailing from Poland. Savage has prepared a very personal mix, which she also defines as one of her most experimental mixes, an audacious plunge into a sonic chasm. Gosha Savage's musical sojourn is an electrifying collision of the intensely personal and the unapologetically experimental. Imbued with the mystique of dreams and the ethereal allure of fairies, her sonic odyssey is a rollercoaster of emotions—plunging from the abyss of sadness to the heights of nostalgia. At the core of Gosha Savage's sonic landscape lies her fascination with real-time FM synthesis, an art of manipulating frequencies and exploring different timbral possibilities of sounds. This, coupled with her penchant for crafting irregular drum patterns, creates a sonic tapestry that defies conventional genre boundaries. Her musical explorations seamlessly

The next mixtape comes from Alifiyah Imani, an interdisciplinary arts & media practitioner and writer. Imani combines multimedia arts and design, focusing on sound, curatorial research and practice. She enquires into our relationship with space, the workings of our cultures and auditory subcultures. Imani told us that an important aspect of Indian classical music training is practising with the tanpura, a full-bodied stringed instrument that creates a repetitive drone. While practising and tuning the tanpura, the daily ritual of attuning myself to the drone as a sonic companion and as a practice of embodied listening and improvising has been significant for me to understand the structure of sound itself. She said. Last June Imani premiered at Distant Gallery her online solo show Your Listening is a Paracosm, a show that shifts perceptual perspectives through sound and ritual, drawings and prompts. Your Listening is a Paracosm unfolds as an experiment for the web and permeates through radio transmissions.

The next mixtape comes from Heqc (an alias of Ben Lukas Boysen), an electronic music composer, producer and sound designer based in Berlin, with a selection of tracks that give a insight into some of his compositional interests. Boysen has classic training, being the son of opera singer Deirdre Boysen with the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation in shaping his practice. With his moniker Hecq, he’s released several albums since 2003, exploring a wide range of styles from ambient to breakcore and releasing mostly on Hymen records. Under his own name, the artist has also released a series of productions on labels such as erased tapes and ad noiseam.  His latest release as Hecq this year after a break since 2017, Form, co-released on Mesh, Max Cooper's record label and Erased Tapes, is defined as an echoic take on rave and electronica and a modern shapeshifting of styles, showing the artist's poly-faceted compositional ranges. Pulsating and syncopated synth lines built up with minima

The next mixtape instalment comes from American DJ and producer PTHGN, who has prepared a selection to give our audiences a glimpse into what he might want to hear on a night out. PTHGN roots in Chicago's music scene have shaped his unique sound that blends electro with influences from techno to grime and everything in between. The artist started out as a visual arts student in Chicago and was initially drawn to music production after exposure to the city's vibrant House, Techno and Footwork scenes. PTHGN's original work was more focused on the interplay between sight/visuals and sound, but his passion for a wide range of music genres, from electro to jazz and grime, led him to favour music creation and production. Emphasizing sound design innovation and musicality, PTHGN's current approach utilizes hardware and modular synths for production and performance, solidifying his status as an emerging artist to watch. PTHGN's Binary Operation EP perfectly captures this with its pulsating drum breaks, dreamy pads,

Our new mixtape comes from London experimental musician and producer Kinn, with a mix of sound, youtube rips, film audio, raw sound design and unreleased music from the artist himself, an intimate recollection to take us into the artist’s expansive creative universe. Kinn has emerged in recent years with a bleakly psychedelic take on post-rock shifting between traditional band setups and move avante-garde studio works. A rotating cast of collaborators, including Arthur Leadbetter, Maxwell Sterling and Alexander Tucker, bolsters this. Recently they have collaborated with artists Tai Shani and Mark Leckey. Their current offering, ‘Dogtooth’, coming out on 7th July 2023, carries off down this path with spoken word, string shards and clouds of distortion, giving away to more traditional song form. The production was all rendered over a 2-year period in precise, spacious, sonic detail, bringing to mind a mood somewhere between Mogwai and The Haxan Cloak or The Body. The album puts a profound and disenchanted hu

Next mixtape comes from ZONDERWERK, who are a duo consisting of Linde Carrijn and Dijf Sanders. The artists started this project during the pandemic to explore their relationship as creative partners. Carrijn has a background in acting but recently has been more focused on composing and performing original scores for theatre, while Sanders is also a composer (and music gear enthusiast), with his work drawn from a wide array of non-Western music. The duo explain that their artistic name means ‘’without work’, but it also comes from ‘bijzonder werk’, where bijzonder is particular and unique. Both artists like to work with images/paintings that are bijzondere werken’, odd works, special and weird. The fact of working with images adds a particular approach to their creative process. As they mention, adding music and sound design to the work of art creates a new dimension and amplifies the beholder's experience. It’s an extra layer, an alternative storyline outside the frame ZONDERWERK have recently released the