ZULI Presents an ep that extends the landscape of 2024’s LP “Lambda” on Subtext — comprising two remixes and two original tracks that continue the creative conversation he began in his studio in Cairo five years ago, and developed in Berlin over the previous two years. The emotive “Care” centers around a field recording of ZULI tapping on the neck of an unplugged guitar. The field recorder was at the other end of his home studio in Cairo, right by the window, so when a car-crash-t...| Subtext Recordings
With simple materials found in hardware stores—such as PVC pipes, water hoses, and ball valves—powered by a construction site air compressor, mesmerizing drones emerge, challenging our expectations of the material. Originally inspired by foghorns and sirens, Amina set out to gain control over these sounds by building a foghorn organ. However, what emerged from this experiment was something far beyond foghorns: a hauntingly electronic-sounding acoustic instrument, spreading frequencies lik...| Subtext Recordings
Ego Death by Aho Ssan & Resina The seed of Ego Death was planted in 2020 during Weavings—a durational remote improvisation conceived and curated by Nicolás Jaar and the Unsound Festival team. This bold experiment brought together 12 musicians from around the world in real time via Zoom, and marked the first collaboration between Resina and Aho Ssan. Their intuitive musical synergy was immediate, revealing a shared vocabulary despite working with radically different tools and instruments. T...| Subtext Recordings
Ukrainian composer Katarina Gryvul presents her third LP, SPOMYN, on Subtext. SPOMYN ('recollection') is an exploration of memory’s fragile, fragmented nature, revealing how it shapes the core of who we are. Each track is a fragment — a flicker of something lost, distorted, or forgotten — brought to life through unmediated emotion, acting as an invocation of continuity, connecting us to those who came before us and the fleeting moments of their existence that still resonate within us, a...| Subtext Recordings
Designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer between 1962 and 1967, the Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli is one of the ancient port city's most unique and unusual spectacles. The vast exhibition center was intended to draw around two million visitors a year, showcasing the country's cultural standing both in the Middle East and around the world, but it wasn't completed. When civil war broke out in 1975, construction ground to a halt and was never resumed, leaving the sea air to s...| Subtext Recordings
Oneiris by Chloe Lula Berlin based electronic musician and cellist Chloe Lula presents the LP Oneiris. Having studied the cello at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and attended music schools up until the age of 18, Chloe gave up her ultra-strict regime of classical training, realising that she saw no future in it for herself — instead immersing herself in community radio, experimental music and techno. Chloe went on to tour the world as a techno DJ and producer, while working as a mu...| Subtext Recordings
Başak Günak is a Istanbul-born, Berlin-based sound artist and composer, also internationally known as AH! KOSMOS in the field of electronic music. Her work includes sound art, performance, sound installation, composition for theater and contemporary dance. In her forthcoming solo album Rewilding, Başak Günak has worked with the themes of (auto-)rewilding, foraging and decay, while also incorporating sounds she has gathered from her sound art and sound installations. “Rewilding” embodi...| Subtext Recordings
ZULI's widest-reaching and most ambitious album to date, 'Lambda' is a conspicuous left turn for the Berlin-based Egyptian producer. Draped in gauzy, granulated textures and woven with enigmatic vocal flourishes from collaborators MICHAELBRAILEY, Coby Sey and Abdullah Miniawy, it's a vivid, soul-searching set of polychromatic reflections that sets fire to the boundaries between ambient, trip-hop, industrial music, chamber pop and symphonic noise. In some aspects, 'Lambda' reveals ZULI's softe...| Subtext Recordings
A state of profound abstraction has long characterized the music of J.G. Biberkopf. During a decade of post-noise experimentation, Biberkopf, aka Gediminas Žygus, explored and fabricated a hyper-mediated world. Following on from Ecologies II: ...| subtextrecordings.net
For the twentieth anniversary of Subtext, we present a literary Anthology titled, “Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to A.I.” alongside a sister compilation of music responding to the stories by Subtext artists. Edited by Briti...| subtextrecordings.net