POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights

For my semi-regular program POST for Refuge Worldwide this week, I focused on new releases. This highlighted Lebanon in particular and still didn’t cover the flurry of releases there, but it covered other places, too. It’s all recommended, so here’s the full playback and track listing with links.

Emotional electronics, from Mexicali’s underground beacon: four essential releases

We live in dissonant, uncertain times, and maybe our consciousness struggles if we try to make it fit square corners and easy forms. So now is a perfect time to feature long-time favorite label Facade Electronics out of northern Mexico. Their opening releases of the year, from artists dotting different parts of the world, flow into a narrative — one uncomfortable, sublime, beautiful.

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2026

Synplant’s new PhenoType tech uses neural nets for more alien patches

It’s the absolute opposite of “AI” as you’ve seen it. There’s no online connection, no giant data set. And here, neural nets help you to escape generic presets and defaults — not lead you into them. The new PhenoType for Sonic Charge Synplant will help you precisely define the ear-bending alien sounds you want to create in words. CDM got an early look.

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2026

Let’s all watch Piaman cover songs with a joystick and voice synthesis

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2026

From Éliane Radigue to West Coast, Homework is a patchable wonder

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2026

Tim Exile built an experimental modular system, all about playability

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2026

Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2026

Breakcore and mouneh: High Hats music supports relief kitchens in Lebanon

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2026

Stillness and radical presence: Mercurial Cycles mix from Hüma Utku

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2026