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Temp-Illusion’s video for “Sketchy” captures senseless cacophony
The news can be numbing in all its violence and mindlessness, compounded by a chorus of shills across media and social media. Temp-Illusion, the duo formed in Tehran by Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, cuts through those feelings like a knife. Then stick around for the deeply meditative Bayal بیل (Shanin + Adel Poursamadi).
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Get dark and strange with this free GodHatesGodRecords compilation
Out of Belgium, there’s a murky, forbidding free underground netlabel that has survived from another era. It’s aggressively anti-algorithmic, soul-chillingly dark in its aesthetics, and committed to free culture and commons like if social media and AI never happened. And it’s perfect for a frozen European night, wherever you might be.
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2026
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Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers
This is not granular. This is all sampler, unison. And so it sounds like things that even granular can’t do. Vara Osiria Belich is this week’s sound design inspiration, with her bonus gestural spell casting with gen-1 Leap Motion. (Remember?)
Peter Kirn - November 20, 2025
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Nazar’s “Demilitarize” sees the artist channeling Ghost in the Shell
Peter Kirn - April 30, 2025
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Arash Azadi’s music returns to primordial states of human existence
Peter Kirn - November 6, 2024
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