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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.
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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.
ENDOGEN: a deep experimental exploratorium of lowercase synthesis
Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There’s a lot to cover as far as what it can do — but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.
Peter Kirn - January 15, 2026
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Peter Kirn - January 10, 2026
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ШЩЦ, Kontext labels explore leftfield sounds, expand Ukrainian connections
Peter Kirn - August 23, 2024
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Listen to Gościńska’s full hour of brain-tickling Polish producers, with links
Peter Kirn - January 17, 2024
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Stripped down, raw, polyrhythmic, acidic: Toktok’s Tweng and remixes
Peter Kirn - December 19, 2023
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