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The first electronic music I ever played as a teenager was on a Hammond organ. The drum machine and rhythm generators in particular fascinated me; simplistic devices but somehow very creative, and something in the sound was strangely compelling. I heard Lee Scratch Perry, Sly and the Family Stone, Cabaret Voltaire and Suicide do some remarkably enduring music with such drum boxes, which of course later went on to become a basic element of electronic dance music in general. With this piece I revisit some of these dusty old machines and also some of the other vintage instruments in the studio at Worm, plus my modular synthesiser and sampler, instruments from Rob Hordijk and some occasional blasts of modulated radio.

New and forgotten ways of making radio

Nostalgia for the Androgynous unfolds an ethereal-telluric space for voices and concrete sound, generative drones creating arcane sounds, lo-fi recordings, lyrical witchcraft, high-hovering voices, dazed and processed in glossolalic harmonies progressively embodied in organic and mineral scenarios. Occult soundscapes melt alternative listening paths in a cathartic collision, haunting and refreshing at a time, an atmosphere of ascent and intimacy, ambiguous, nostalgic, and visceral. Serena Dibiase is an experimental vocalist, sound artist, performer, poet.

*Duuu Radio presents a compilation of tracks from the vinyl „Lo gëm, mu nekk“, by the artist Bocar Niang, edited and pressed by *Duuu in 2023. The vinyl LGMN is a rap album consisting of 10 tracks. The album explores its musical influences through the variety of languages that resonate within it, including Wolof, English, and French. This musical project is the result of six years of research into writing, composition, and the dissemination of music. The phrase „Lo gëm, mu nekk“ could be translated from Wolof into French as „Advient ce en quoi tu crois“ („Let what you believe in come to pass“). Bocar envisions Lo gëm, mu nekk as a slogan for young Senegalese people, offering hope and courage to Senegalese society, Africa, and its diaspora, who endure the oppressive weight of perpetuated African dictatorships.