GUESTMIX#87: Extrablood

Artwork by  _v.3lo Extrablood is a multidisciplinary Internet artist who has been working with many collectives and labels such as the Berlin-based Tremors, the Chilean HIBRIDANITA, and more. Moving between abstract visual outings and experimental electronics, their knife-sharp music is characterized by deconstructed rhythms and biomechanical sounds combined with intense percussive elements, noise, and distorted […]

‘NARA – Your Favorite Dish’ on Nooit Meer Naar Huis’ ‘Working Title;’ v/a compilation

  Hi everyone, we’re back from the summer vacations to announce we took part in the v/a compilation called “Working Title;” by the Belgian crew Nooit Meer Naar Huis, where 14 different organizations were asked to participate by curating one comp track each. Our choice fell on the stunning Italian, London-based DJ and producer NARA […]

Track Premiere: ‘Ropes to Eternity Lead Nowhere’ by Sprælle

Artwork by Alejandra Fajardo Zarraga Nathan Germain aka Sprælle ([Sprah-lé], he/him) is a 24-yo French musician, producer, and DJ based between Montreal, Canada, and NY City, US. His work collects stimuli from multiple musical and cultural references such as contemporary laptop electronics, ambient and experimental music, as well as mainstream pop and videogame soundtracks. These, […]

Album Premiere: ‘Pause​/​Stutter​/​Uh​/​Repeat’ by ABADIR [Genot Centre]

Artwork and tape design by Sam Lubicz (333 Boyz) Rami Abadir is a sound designer, music producer, and composer born in Cairo, Egypt, now based in Berlin. Over the recent years, he has been creating pieces of abstract, experimental electronic music via collaborative efforts such as 0N4B (ANBA, Aural Electronics) together with Mostafa Onsy, and […]

Track Premiere: ‘There Weren’t’ by Cares [ZABRA]

Cover art by João Pedro Fonseca James Beardmore aka Cares is a Toronto-based musician and experimental producer from Birmingham. Influenced by his multidisciplinary background in improv and visual art as well as by his teenage experiences with punk bands in the UK, the artist resorts to audio sources such as field recordings, samples, and both […]

GUESTMIX#51: HeedLess [Wile Out, Club Late Music]

Artwork by Francesco Mancin     We’re very pleased today to feature on our GUESTMIX series the Italian producer and DJ Mattia Cremonini aka HeedLess, who recorded for us a 51-minutes-long mixtape offering a wild insight into the current underground club culture: the tracklist is available at the end of the article and goes from […]

NETHER riparte dalle esplorazioni sonore e software di ‘Blinded’ di SY/IN

  SY/IN è il nuovo alias del sound e visual artist, produttore e sperimentatore friulano Alex Ortiga classe 1993, attivo precedentemente come Xennan e, per un breve periodo, Niide. La sua ricerca artistica rivolge l’attenzione all’immaginazione e costruzione di piani reali/fittizi in cui il dominio digitale e quello fisico (analogico) interagiscono fino a confondersi ed […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #11 by c:pala [November 2018]

Artwork by: c:pala PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS family, Turin based members: c : pala, Guiot, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #8, featuring c:pala:  long time PAYNOMINDTOUS collaborator (take a look here, here and here), render guerrilla […]

Track Premiere: Diagnostic – Conflict Zone [‘Repercussions’ CD, Jezgro]

Jezgro is an independent electronic record label we already had the chance to talk about last year when the Torus EP by Japanese legend Merzbow was released on the Serbian outcome, started and run by Ontal / Impulse Controls’ Darko Kolar. Next Tuesday, December the 4th a CD album series called JCDAL will start on Jezgro with Jan […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #9 by VIBRISSE [September 2018]

Artwork by: VIBRISSE PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin-based members: c : pala, Guiot, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #9 w/ VIBRISSE, which is the moniker for a bastard, two-headed, mixed gender project currently based in Turin, […]

Track Premiere: Clade by Scim [Punctuated Equilibrium, Heel.Zone]

Artwork by: Gianluca Lonigro   Ryan Tracey aka Scim is an artist, producer, and programmer currently based in Chicago, US, who released earlier this year a very valid EP, called Solid Grey, on the Californian outcome T.A.R.. Next week, Tuesday the 25th to be precise, the next Scim outing will be released on the Italian multidimensional […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #8 by c:pala [August 2018]

Artwork by: c:pala PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS family Turin based members: c : pala, Guiot, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #8, featuring c:pala:  long time PAYNOMINDTOUS collaborator (take a look here, here and here), render guerrilla […]

Album Premiere: Coeden – They Are Eating All The Faeries [Prehistoric Silence]

  Prehistoric Silence is a label releasing both physical and digital stuff we already had the chance to talk about on a few occasions such as this and this one. Based in the Italian region called Veneto which has been offering interesting acts and events such as Chevel, Von Tesla, Enklav, Quarto Mondo, PHS was established […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #6 by Guiot [June 2018]

  PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin based members: c : pala, Guiot, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #6, featuring Guiot: Guiot (fl. 2017-) shares a bedroom in Torino with a laptop barely able to run […]

Track Premiere: Goldra (feat. MRTRY) by Kuthi Jinani on Bio Future Laboratory

Artwork by liara t’soni   Kuthi Jinani is the obscure, occult sci-fi project of the Milan-based youngster Giancarlo Brambilla, taking inspiration and sound material from post-rave scenarios, concrète sampling and a peculiar and funny research into organic nature, deep-web contents and bass music. Started in 2016, KJ released its first EP on the Italian Beat […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #5 by VIBRISSE [May 2018]

  PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin based members: c : pala, GUIOT, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #5 w/ VIBRISSE, which is the moniker for a bastard, two-headed, mixed gender project currently based in Turin, Italy. VIBRISSE […]

GUESTMIX#38: VBRA

  VBRA is a music/art collective created in 2016 by people passionate with experimentations/beats/abstractionism in all types of arts. VBRA communicates through strong music mixtapes and impactful artworks. Mixcloud / Soundcloud / Tumblr   TRACKLIST Soho Rezanejad and Various Artists | The Idealist Ft. SKY H1 Lynn | tcs ithinkifeverybodywillknownthatthisisthesoundwe’llhearinthelastmoment,nobody’dbeafraidtodeath Martyn Bootyspoon | Silk Eternity Dane […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #4 by c:pala [April 2018]

  PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin based members: c : pala, GUIOT, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #4, featuring c:pala:  long time PAYNOMINDTOUS collaborator (take a look here, here and here), render guerrilla specialist (take […]

Intervista a Ramirexx (aka Alessandro Gentili, Algen) + MINIMIX

  Ramirexx, pseudonimo di Alessandro Gentili, è un dj, producer e visual artist residente in provincia di Ancona. Orientato su sonorità decostruzioniste, discontinue, industriali e brutali, interposte ad invasioni di musica sperimentale e rumorista, è attivo dal 2016. I suoi mix sono stati ospitati da Noisey Italia, Jerome Worldwide, Echo As e Murk. Per supportare […]

GUESTMIX#32: Aghnie – EBM Leather Mix

Artwork by 2084russo   We’re glad to be back with our GUESTMIX series hosting a mixtape by Aghnie aka Ika Jojua, a Tbilisi-based sound and visual artist. His work compasses various facades of sound-related works: Aghnie’s early materials focused on recontextualizing religious and devotional forms of music, experimenting with them utilizing various electronic textures (as can be heard […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #2 by GUIOT [February 2018]

  PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin based members: c : pala, GUIOT, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here and here.   Input text: The ground is reflective. The ground is black. The sky is black. a red “Pay no mind […]

FAMILY MIXTAPE #1 by VIBRISSE [January 2018]

  PAYNOMINDTOUS presents the Family Mixtape series: a mixtape at the end of the month recorded by one of the four PAYNOMINDTOUS’ family Turin based members: c : pala, GUIOT, Krolik, VIBRISSE. More info here. FAMILY MIXTAPE #1, introducing VIBRISSE: VIBRISSE is the moniker for a bastard, two-headed, mixed gender djing project currently based in Turin, […]

Album Premiere: Anything Pointless – EVA EP [Superbudda Production]

  Siamo felici di presentare oggi l’EP d’esordio di Anything Pointless, intitolato EVA e in uscita Venerdì 15 Dicembre (domani!) per Superbudda Production, l’organo di pubblicazione del collettivo artistico di base nel capoluogo piemontese. Della durata di poco inferiore a 15 minuti e suddiviso in 5 tracce, EVA EP arriva anticipato dal singolo Breathe rilasciato […]

Club to Club Festival 2017, Turin, 01-05/11/17

TURN THE SCREEN IF YOU’RE MOBILE!   Are you enjoying what you see on PAYNOMINDTOUS? If that’s the case, we’d like to kindly ask you to subscribe to our newsletter, our Facebook group, and also to consider donating a few cents to our cause. Your help would be of great relevance to us, thank you […]

GUESTMIX#25: NETHERMIX by Weightausend [Hanter Records, NETHER]

Artwork: Eye of Ra by Cy Tone; buy your digital HD copy here   We feel computer generated music is going to play a key role in shaping the future electronic music style and culture, as pretty much every technological breakdown and its subsequent spreading has indeed done over the last 60 years. Please learn […]

GUESTMIX#23: FossaDelRumore [Craneal Fracture, Endless Landscapes Of Decay]

Artwork by: Cristina Ruggieri FossaDelRumore is an ambient / drone, noise project born in 2012 out of the mind of Pietro Michi, a 24 y.o. producer from Florence, Italy. We already had the chance to discuss his Isolato work (Sept. 2016) at this link, while today we’re glad to share with you his mixed selection […]

GUESTMIX#22 by Sammartano + 10 Recommended Mixtapes

Artwork by: Cristina Ruggieri Gaspare Sammartano, musicista pugliese noto come metà del duo cult Cannibal Movie, formato nel 2011 assieme a Donato Epiro e autore di tre diverse uscite su Avorio Dischi, Sound of Cobra e Yerevan Tapes, ha pubblicato nel 2015 il suo primo lavoro in solo: intitolato Low Pitched Italy ed edito da […]

GUESTMIX#21 by XENNAN [S t A Y]

Artwork by Xennan Dopo Merchants e Massimo Carozzi ospitati nella nostra serie GUESTMIXES lo scorso mese di Giugno, siamo felici di riprendere con il ventunesimo episodio firmato da Alex Ortiga aka Xennan, fondatore e gestore dell’etichetta udinese StAY, nata in seguito ad un cambio di rotta della precedente Stay Home Records in favore di una […]

RECORDING#38: V0r0N0I [LIVE] @Bologna Elettrica | Xm24, Bologna, 27/05/17

Technical File Date / Venue 27/05/2017, Bologna Elettrica @Xm24, Bologna Info / Links FB / Soundcloud “Inspired by the well-known diagrams and geometric theories of the eponymous mathematician coming from the cold 19th century Russian Empire, Matteo Nobile, and Luca Scarrone explore through Voronoi the changing relationship between sound, structure and space. In a continuous metric and formal […]

PAYNOMINDTOUS_Fest#2: Future Paths @ Bunker, Turin | 09/06/17

“So it’s not a question of giving old ideas new momentum, it’s a matter of fighting over the meaning of the words ‘new’ and ‘modern’. Neoliberalism itself is a discredited relic, albeit one that still dominates our lives (but only by default now): part of the battle will be to ensure it’s perceived to be […]

Holy Similaun / Weightausend Split EP [Prehistoric Silence, PHS002] + Full Album Stream

  Prehistoric Silence is a recently-born label releasing both physical and digital stuff, based on the Italian region called Veneto which is cultivating growing interest in experimental and venturous electronics, thanks to a discrete amount of artists, outcomes and venues such as Chevel, Von Tesla, Enklav, ElectronicGirls, Quarto Mondo, CSO Django, Spazio Aereo and much […]

Random Numbers Split Series Vol. 3: SOMEC / Von Tesla + Full Album Stream

Random Numbers è il nome di un collettivo bolognese di musicisti, producers e dj che lavorano ad ampio spettro nell’ambito della musica elettronica. Nato dall’amicizia e dal supporto reciproco tra i diversi membri, si è rapidamente evoluto in un’etichetta che risolvesse le immediate necessità di rappresentazione e piena assistenza di ogni singolo artista e release, […]