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 …

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 a…

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-b…

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…

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, sy…

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 ru…

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…

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 …

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 …

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. H…

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.Vas…

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 …

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 widescr…

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.G…

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 …

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…

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 ou…

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 shift…

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 …

Mixtape 58The new mixtape instalment comes from Ale Hop(aka Alejandra Cardenas) and Laura Robles. Cárdenas is a Berlin-based artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentalist from Lima, Peru. Earlier this year, together with Laura Robles (a percussionist and bassist formed from a very young age in the rich Afro-Peruvian and Cuban musical traditi…

Our next mixtape comes from duo Brueder Selke, East Berlin-born, Potsdam-based, polyinstrumental composers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and also curators of the Q3AMBIENTFEST in Potsdam (Germany). The festival, taking place at the beginning of June, is a musical happening that brings together established and emerging artists from various genres and d…

Our latest mixtape comes from Hora Lunga, a composer, sound designer, and songwriter based in Zurich. With a passion for pushing the boundaries of electronic music, Hora Lunga creates a unique blend of traditional and experimental sounds that take listeners on a soulful journey.Having studied electroacoustic composition, the artist's practice focus…

Our Next mixtape lands from the Spanish composer, cellist, singer and producer Yamila, with a unique mix inspired by her last album and a soulful vision inside her art.Dancing between electronic and analogue music, tradition and experimentation. Yamila's artistic practice "looks over the precipice of pure emotion", which couldn't be more accurate. …

The next mixtape comes from the mighty DJ DTEKK, a Polish DJ, promoter and cultural activist, with a meditative mix inspired by the late Angelo Badalamenti.DTEKK (aka Jędrzej Dondziło and originally from Białystok in Poland) first stepped behind the decks in 2000. He's known for his relentless techno sets. DTEKK is also the originator and program d…

One hundred years after his birth, Berlin Atonal's special festival edition X100 was dedicated to the Romanian-born Greek, French avant-garde composer, architect, and mathematician Iannis Xenakis, who pioneered applying mathematical models to music, known as the designer of the UPIC, a computerised system with a graphical approach to musical compos…

We open the festivities season with a very special mix from DJ, producer and musician Curses, with a dreamy compilation of cinematic elements, radio and tv samples from the 80s and 90s, and an extension of his passion for mixing Wave and the dark and weirder side of Italo Disco.Originally hailing from New York and currently based in Berlin, Curses …

The next mixtape sees new output 33, aka Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi, putting together a mix of music and musicians that surround them and create their daily musical landscape.Through their collaborative project 33, Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi further consolidate a partnership which has taken many forms within a visual, artistic spect…

Our next mixtape comes from Luka Aron, a German musician and composer of electroacoustic and minimalist music, with a selection of tunes with unusual harmonics. Based between Berlin and Stockholm, Aron’s practice is largely focused in thespectral fusion of synthesised sound and acoustic instruments, combining the raw energyof power electronics with…

A Line, a succession of points, a fine line, a route; or many, like when talking about LINE as a label, house, family and source of inspiration founded by sound artist Richard Chartier 22 years ago. Sometimes conceptual, sometimes abstract, sometimes somewhere between the two, or just out of any category, the works published by this label condense …

Aeondelit, a Colombian music producer, takes us on our next mixtape trip into the sonic landscapes of anime and video games.Aeondelit has just released his second full-length album, Vestigios (Unguarded, 2022), which tells a lucid, captivating story of heritage, transformation, vulnerability and healing. The release will include the artwork created…

South-east Turkey-born DJ sound artist and producer, Banu is bringing the sounds for our next mixtape. The artist uses music as a political tool. For Banu, the strong message carried through sound is a vehicle to express emotions as well as a means of fighting againstoppression. Coming from a conservative family, making music has been her lifelong …

Our next Mixtape comes from Nanook of the North, the duo of composer and violinist Stefan Wesołowski and electronic producer Piotr Kalińsk, with a small introduction to their music and the music of their friends.Taking the name of a 1922 American silent film that follows the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arct…

Our next Mixtape comes from the Polish producer Cafe de la Jungle, where he has recollected some of his latest inspirations in terms of pace and rhythms.Cafe de la Jungle is Tomasz Zając, a Kraków-based producer who is using modular synthesis, field recording and sampling techniques to build mystical worlds on twelve-inch discs. He’s recently relea…

Next on our Mixtape series is by the one and only Richie Culver. We published an interview with him a few weeks back, and he so generously offered us a mixtape. A selection of drifty suggestive tracks of artists he's been recently interested in, and the perfect companion for the entertaining read that his interview is. Culver has been this semi-out…

Barkum Deer are Louis Giannamore and Jenny Ames, two talented musicians who met in a London house share and bonded over their love of early Renaissance music, black metal, and Björk. Amid the bleak reality of a winter lockdown, the pair found a space for creative collaboration unencumbered by deadlines or expectations, fuelled by the catharsis of e…

The next mixtape comes from Akusmi, the new project moniker of French-born, London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau. It's a dive into Indonesian sounds territories, following his recently published album Fleeting Future (Tonal Union, 2022), which was partly inspired by the artist's journey to the east-Asian country.I…

The next mixtape comes from Italian artist Anor Londo (aka Marco Fasoli). Dedicated to drumming for a long time, the artist has more recently moved into more introspective electronic territories. With an artistic name that recalls a fictional city in a series of action role-playing games, Anor Londo is deeply fascinated by alchemical esotericism, p…

The next mixtape comes from musician and composer Remo Seeland, who is behind the Swiss experimental label Hallow Ground. He’s presenting a selection of the label’s music, partly in response to the label's recent publication, their first ever "concept-compilation" Epiphanies (Hallow Ground, 2022) released earlier in March this year.Founded by Remo …

The next mixtape arrives from V-stock, aka Valentin Doychinov, an electronic musician, guitarist, producer and film score composer. With an interest in nature, mathematics and of course music, he finds inspiration in a diverse set of influences that range from the fringes of experimental club music, noise, and ambient to instrumental genres such as…

The next instalment of our Mixtape series comes by Johanna Sulkunen, a Finnish experimental vocalist, composer & improviser based in Copenhagen. A mix of minimalistic sounds combined with vocal compositions to welcome the spring season.For Johanna, the symbiosis of vocals and electronics have been at the centre of her career. A frequent collaborato…

Il Santo Bevitore is the artistic alter ego of the Italian born London-based musician, producer and sound engineer Nicola Serra, who is also known for being the founding curator of London's experimental music festival Dronica. The following mixtape is shared on the occasion of his recent debut release for Opal Tapes ‘Water and Tears’.“The mixtape i…

For our next mixtape set, duo Auf Togo will be taking us into a session of Pop, Funk & 70's Cosmic Disco, filled with hypnotic grooves and absorbing melodies. Auf Togo is the long-time collaboration between Sasa Crnobrnja and Clement Cachot-Coulom which is inspired by the Cosmic disco sounds of the late 70s/early '80s. Sasa Crnobrnja originates fro…

Electronic musician and sound artist Josep Kamaru, aka KMRU, takes us on our first December sonic journey.Born in Nairobi and currently based in Berlin, KMRU is a sound artist and producer whose methods include field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, radio art and drones. With a paramount sound and visual sensibility, his work is r…

Our 35th Mixtape installment arrives from Dahjyn, a musician, producer and vocalist originally from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S and currently based in Brooklyn. Dahjyn, or Dan Jyn Suk Ahrendt is currently a resident with a monthly show at Hong Kong Community Radio and has just recently published his debut EP, The gall (Most Dismal Swamp, 2021)…

Our end of October Mixtape comes from Bedroom community’s Heliocrysum.With a name that evokes the Latin for sunflower but also a healing tincture, the LA-based composer/sound designer duo have just recently presented their visceral, deep and exploratory debut album "We Become Mist". Reminiscence of their name too, their sound blends overlaid orches…

With a selection of dark and deep cuts, the rising electronic music producer MINOS is presenting our next mixtape. The London-based, Italian/Colombian electro producer fuses complex synth-work with powerful harmonies. MINOS is a classically trained pianist, however her love for the dancefloor has naturally guided her into electronic production. Her…

Huma is the alias of Barcelona based experimental musician Andrés Satué. who is bringing our next mixtape instalment, following the release of his new EP Se van sus naves. We recently featured Huma ahead is release titled Emergence (Hedonic Reversal, 2021), a release that was an experiment in the irregular rhythmic, textural or physical qualities o…

Dalhous, the music project of Marc Dall and Alex Ander formed in Edinburgh, are bringing our next mixtape instalment, with a mix that will particularly please those with cinematographic inclinations. Dalhous have just returned after a 5-year hiatus with a long-awaited follow up to 2016's House Number 44, presenting the second volume of The Composit…

Our new mixtape comes from the Norwegian transcendent artist Kjetil Jerve and producer Stian Balducci with a recording specially crafter for CLOT Mag and getting inspiration from their more recent album.Tokyo Tapes: Piano Recycle, released on Dugnad Records in April 2021, is an epic archival collection fusing ambient, drone and experimentalist text…

The next mixtape instalment comes from the hand of one of the sound artists we have long followed and admired. Jana Winderen is contributing to the series with a mix inspired by one of her recent compositions, the track "Listener" which appears in the VA compilation Colliding Wind by Concentric Records. Jana Winderen is an artist and field recordis…