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Realist Alive and Petrichor join forces on May 29 for a blitz of pure dancefloor experimentation. Nairobi’s Slikback returns to Bristol for a live solo debut after his 2025 appearance alongside Aïsha Devi as aka.hex. A fixture on international bills & alumnus of festivals from Unsound to Draaimolen, Slikback has spent a decade building an inimitable discography. Absorbing and merging anything from Gqom, hardcore techno, trap and dubstep, entwining Pan-African instrumentation with low-end brutality, he’s a titan of club music equal parts radically deconstructed and fearlessly personal. Long-term affiliate of the alchemical label SVBKVLT, Hyph11e has frequently pushed bass music to its outer limits. Melding industrial atmospherics and the futuro-fury of noise with a hyperactive approach borrowing from drum and bass and footwork, Hyph11e’s sound is boundless & otherworldly. She has played regularly across Europe and Asia and graced numerous festivals from Rewire to Dekmantel. She returns to Bristol for an hour demonstrating her iridescent, apocalyptic imaginary of bass music. prey coded is one of deconstructed club’s current ascendant talents. The late 2025 album glossolalia demonstrated a singularly new idiolect, encompassing sound art, ambient and industrial music. Her 2026 has seen a number of international mixes follow, as well as a recent Paris show alongside KAVARI & S280F. May 29 presents her debut in the UK. KTR is the head of Petrichor and a constant of London’s conflagrant avant-club new-gen. A dexterous DJ and producer, KTR distinguishes himself via a musical style incorporating not thundering abrasion alone but the murky moodpieces of UK dubstep, plus the emotionality found in IDM and trance. The bill is rounded out by Bristol’s post-club pulsar qwerty-uiop and Realist Alive architect tskali. The two RA mainstays join forces for an opening set promising equal parts subterranean pressure and subversive selection. May 29 | @exchangebristol 11PM-4AM Tickets on Headfirst and Resident Advisor @slikback @hyph11e @_preycoded @kaitrwu @mermaids_estrogen @tskali__ @exchangeafterdark

This Friday 🚨 late night bar activities @ the Cube Microplex 🚨 23:00 - 03:00 @xtereaa (live) @tskali__ (DJ) @trish_ak_means (DJ) Extra sound in bar, extra films in auditorium, extra nice times ...always Limited capacity... - £5 adv tickets via headfirst & more OTD / - free for BNM passholders First come first serve ...don't zzzz As part of @bristolnewmusic 2026

16/05 live at @centrala_space Birmingham 4 @realist___alive x @glitch.cool ~~ w/ @logiclost @yauheiasj @thorjn.music @juha.fool @sunnk__ ** thanku @tskali__ for the invite gunna b a sik 1 🌠 tix via Centrala + Ticket Tailor photo by @myfavouritedays / poster by @alice.jennings

Following February’s sell-out debut as collaborators, @glitch.cool & Realist Alive pair again for a return leg in Brum, taking over @centrala_space for an evening of destructive computer music & glitched-out imagination. The bill sees recent ATC luminary, Jakarta’s Logic Lost debuting in the city as part of a UK tour, bringing their jagged, apocalyptic sound reconstituting the possibility-spaces of techno and breakbeat. Disposable Gods was one of 2025’s most essential records, abrading dancefloor rhythms for an acerbic screed against the hollow icons of the now. LL is supported from Bristol by 祐曦 Yau Hei and Silver Waves. 祐曦 Yau Hei interweaves trance, deconstructed club & avant-garde composition into a live set equal parts fantastical and cerebral. Silver Waves embodies a long-developed coagulation of industrial found-sound and unreadable percussion, conjuring future-sonics from the musical shards of an oneiric present. Two super-talents with their inimitable idiolects, arriving to Brum off recent shows both international and local. glitch.cool call up Thorjn & juha. to complete the bill. Back last Winter, Thorjn seemed to have reached a culmination with the magisterial Through the Crystal Window, distilling years of work into an album turning influence from new age, IDM and hyperglitch into something entirely his own. TTCW turned out merely to be the starting point, as followed the NOVOPANGEA EP & a further album, Somewhere, incorporating explorations of both computational noise & low-fidelity sound collage. What is juha. but another prodigy from the ranks of gc? On 2023’s unreason and empty space they stretched ambient to its most eschatological regions while retaining it an urgent intimacy. Their unique approach pairs an operatic sublimity with glitchwise reinterpretations of the UK bass continuum & hip-hop. They ramp up now for a second album, The Fires This Time on glitch.cool. May 16 sees their Birmingham debut amidst this deserved momentum. @centrala_space Saturday 16 May 7PM-12:30AM Tickets available via Ticket Tailor & Centrala [link in bio] poster by @alice.jennings @logiclost @yauheiasj @ssilverwavess @thorjn.music @juha.fool

Looking back fondly to time shared three weeks ago at the residency ‘Like Static in the Dust’, with @music_tocome , @arsider_cam , @misto_mame_collective and Siamo Solo Noise. Mapping the connections between underground collectives practicing autonomy and cultural self-production, beyond the circuits of the mainstream. Love and gratitude to all those who made it possible, and to everyone who came along to be a part of its spirit ✨ ~ @ggguuueeesssttt , @mentecorporea , @radiokebab10525rbo , Infinite Spirit Music, Jumble Sail x Craxi Driver, Speed Archer, Adriano Cava, @anngiov , @arsider_cam x Avon Terror Corps x @dalidesaintpaul , @alice.jennings , @coppersounds x @francofranco3019 , @not399093 , @ssilverwavess , @tskali__ x @henry_jgwilson , @bubble______wrap , BKV Industrial filmed by @oliverbrouwer •

INCOMPLETE BURNING | V/A001 Out now via Bandcamp + Soundcloud Double-disc CD set shipping ~ April 1st A 29-track comp celebrating the artists who graced the first year of Realist Alive Radio. An eclectic expedition through computational iconoclasm. Featuring @i_kno_music @mermaids_estrogen @dark.eatr @habiboi_ @lukabeaa @virag_reti @c_onputer__man @goldenfurniture123 @razzzmiel @optionlist @nathanl.69 @jim77077kimchi @juha.fool @lizzzz.v2 @fosfor_av @ultracute.asf @teethingpains @rlaghcks489 @studio_dosage @thorjn.music @acantunofficial @mxrpha_ @thisisromanowitch @heavenfirst625 @kil.marcel_ @hai0ri @amaranth_todd @jorodudovski @mitigatemusic Mastered by Seth Taylor Photography and paintings by Frasier Thomas Additional Art and Type by Sam Grinnall @frasier77777 | @grinnallll

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SPOOL X @incompleteburning sunday 29 march 1500-2000 @bar57bristol Our 12th SPOOL will be our first collaborative session, celebrate the launch of INCOMPLETE BURNING, a new label from the @realist__alive crew, debuting with a 29-track compilation on March 27. Music all afternoon from comp contributors & friends: @mermaids_estrogen @dark.eatr @sdr1ft @tskali__ As always the bar is stocked with good coffee, beers (+0%s), wine and cocktails.

🇬🇧 Attention, Units > TONIGHT 🕥22.30 Rome Time @radioblackouttorino > Arsider XXL: UK Edition. Audio briefing of the two-day Avon assault, via Music to Come & Cube Cinema, processed and backupped by your Thursday's classic. FEAT:Adriano Cava “mikrokosmos”, Anna Giovanna, Arsider x Avon Terror Corps, BKV Industrial x Mugwort Maiden Copper Sounds x Franco Franco, not399093, Silver Waves, tskali + Henry Wilson, Ggguest, Craxi Driver, Jumble Sail, Infinite Spirit Music, Speed Archer, dj no name + @bubblewrap x @noodsradio 🚨 The transmission will consist of wreckage, live segments, voice notes, zapping, medium beers, marijuana, and DVJ interference. Any omission of units in this debrief is unintentional and due to chaotic surveillance conditions.

Playing live @ The Croft alongside : @eetsleep & @sol741_ on March 13th (tomorrow!) for @realist___alive 🗽 Love to @tskali__ for having me open up the night 🌟 Tickets available on Headfirst 🎫

DAY 2 - Saturday 14th March - from 2pm till late! ALL DAY! Adriano Cava - “mikrokosmos” a sonic pantomime through multi-speaker system - Sonic explorer, tape collector, selector and tireless diy activist into the most vital underground Italian realms - brings his No-Fi spatialisation, shaping delicate and immersive geometry into silent micro-soundscapes. Anna Giovanna - inter-dimensional psychic sound journeys - Lost-in-time digger and selector, her sets are built from K7 tapes, pedals, and oscillators are dangling between forgotten frequencies and lofi sound tape collages. Arsider x Avon Terror Corps - sonic juggernaut + vocals - The intricate, polysemous multi device reflecting our multidimensional audio-reality called Arsider, operates across the entire spectrum, from high-end broadcast studios to the raw, chaotic static of street protests. Joined for the occasion by unknown Avonian vocal entities for maximal psycho-societal tumult audio-rendering. BKV Industrial x Mugwort Maiden - No-Dub + dungeon DJ set - No need for introduction; the tale has long been foretold. Two local legends meet for a unique music blend, off the charts, off the market. Copper Sounds x Franco Franco - hypnotic sculptural freestyle session - Bristol’s sounds-blacksmiths and the Italian MC meet for a one-of full-spinning session. Behind closed curtains the silhouetted mechanism revolves perpetually on its own elements: copper + fossils + stones + bars in a tect/sonic assault. not399093 - spectral romanticism / smarmello-core - His sound is "muddy post-mainroom": a marble-heavy, wobbling dub gloom called smarmello-core. From spectral romanticism to jungle atmospheres chewed by malfunctioning hardware. Silver Waves - industrial shoegaze collage DJ set - electroacoustic composer, audio engineer and improv. force Dylan Mallet, joins the proceedings with a wide ranging new age industrial sound collage. tskali + Henry Wilson - dual performance glitchwise emotionality - HW's inimitable mixture of performance art and spoken word finds tskali in a rarer mode of glitchwise noise and ambient, staging a dialogue between a performer and a DJ. Artwork by arcadepare

Music to Come, Arsider, Misto Mame, Siamo Solo Noise and the Cube Microplex present “Like Static in the Dust”: two days of screenings and live sound and music, mapping the connections between underground collectives practicing autonomy and cultural self-production, beyond the circuits of the mainstream. Bottom up culture, as static on dust particles, accumulates invisibly beneath the sheet of conformity — releasing itself through collision and separation, in not fully predictable ways. Featuring… Clinamen: pirates against the great void a film by Osservatorio per l’Oblio Industriale guest - performs with the Pattern Organ, an optical sound sinthesiser - Infinite Spirit Music - fearless across concrete DJ set - Jumble Sail x Craxi Driver - absurdists A/V manipulation meets retro-technologic video-acoustic sabotage - Speed Archer - non-verbal TV remix - La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de L’Est a film by N.Drolc & G.Marietta Adriano Cava - “mikrokosmos” a sonic pantomime through multi-speaker system - Anna Giovanna - interdimensional psychic sound journeys - Arsider x Avon Terror Corps - sonic juggernaut + vocals - BKV Industrial x Mugwort Maiden - No-Dub + dungeon DJ set - Copper Sounds x Franco Franco - hypnotic sculptural freestyle session - not399093 - spectral romanticism / smarmello-core - Silver Waves - industrial shoegaze collage DJ set - tskali + Henry Wilson - dual performance glitchwise emotionality - + food provided by chef Peter and Snoozie Video by Paul Hanson