audite, hier gefühlt schon ewiger Türchenbefüller und für mich seit seiner Sonntagsbeschallung in Form von fünf Dubstep-Mixen vor jetzt schon 15 Jahren: Audite – Box Of Life, legendär, bringt hier jetzt mal bisschen Schwung in die Bude. Es ist schließlich Freitag und er scheppert uns dazu passend Drumfunk Art Sounds um die Ohren, die die müden Ohren auf das Wochenende vorbereiten wollen. Das dürfte wohl ganz gut gelingen.

Dabei fällt mir, wenn ich mich durch die alten Links klicke, auf, wer von ganzen Leuten mal ein eigenes Blog hatte und es heute nicht mehr befüllt. Das bleibt hier nicht der einzige. Aber darum soll es gar nicht gehen. So lange die Leuddies dennoch ihre Musik unter uns verteilen, ist alles gut. Ganz genau wie in diesem Fall. Auf in’s Wochenende. Mit Bass unterm Kiel und Trommeln auf’m Deck.

Style: Drum & Bass
Length: 01:05:20
Quality: 320 kBit/s

Tracklist:
01: Blocks & Escher – Shot In The Dark
02: Scape – Visitors Into The Unknown
03: Sound Shifter – Loving You Forever
04: Acid Lab – King T
05: Seba – Jungle music
06: Earl Grey – Inner Conflict
07: Thing – Kalana
08: Mozey – Silenced
09: Trilogy – Zatoichi (The Outerworld Remix)
10: Fanu – Reverse Dawn (Mister Shifter Remix)
11: Blocks & Escher – Something Borrowed, Something Blue
12: Seba – Lie to Me
13: R.A.W. ft Willie Waldman – Late Nights
14: Omni Trio – Renegade Snares (High Contrast Remix)
15: Eschaton – Absolute Magnitude
16: Seba, Paradox & Robert Manos – Move On
17: Blocks & Escher – Broken (Paradox Remix)
18: Blocks & Escher – From The Ashes

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Northern California–based designer Hanneke Lourens has never shied away from embedding cultural narratives in her work – like her Leftover Bench, inspired by South Africa’s culture of fostering community through milk crates and stacked cinder blocks. With her new Barred Collection, she turns another unlikely source of inspiration – the stainless steel security bars bolted to windows and doors across her homeland – into sculptural furniture. “I certainly don’t want to make light of the need for security bars, but being South African is such a big part of my identity that I’m unable to escape it in my work,” she explains. Made by hand in California, the four-piece series reframes these utilitarian details in a neutral – even elevated – light, opening a dialogue about South Africa’s vulnerability and strength.

The idea for the collection came during her last visit to South Africa, a place Lourens continues to draw energy from. “I get so much creative energy when I visit South Africa, and the last time I went home was no different,” she shares. “In pretty much every type of neighborhood across the country, you’ll see these striking bars added as security measures to windows and doors.” While the presence of the bars signals an elevated crime rate, Lourens looks at them objectively. “They can almost be seen as the jewelry of a building. Sometimes curvy and ornate, other times linear and stark, they provide an extra layer of decoration to every facade.”

From every angle, the Barred Collection is defined by bold contrasts. Each piece feels Brutalist in character, with thick column legs that ground the forms and reveal their timber end grain at the top. The legs are joined with traditional woodworking techniques and reinforced by stainless steel bars, whose cool sheen provides a sharp counterpoint to the warmth of the wood. Echoing the rudimentary security bars Lourens saw on her trip, the steel elements are attached with simple tabs and screws. Yet each piece uses the metal differently, creating variety and rhythm across the collection.

The Barred Chair employs a cubed steel grid as an angled backrest, while the Barred Side Table, crafted from ash wood, connects its four oversized legs with linear bars.

From salvaged redwood in a previous life as the corner post of a house, the Barred Coffee Table takes form and is bound with ladder-like steel bars on two sides, giving it a chunky, grounded presence. Finally, the Barred Bench incorporates a grid below its seat, adding both structural strength and a second surface for storage.

Although the inspiration behind the collection may feel solemn, Lourens sees value in that discomfort. “When I’m inspired by something that brings up discomfort, I don’t necessarily see it as a negative. I’m always fascinated by the off-limits and the forgotten, so if this collection is making us ask questions, I see it as a win.”

To learn more about the Barred Collection by Hanneke Lourens, please visit hannekelourens.com.

Photography by Hubbard M. Jones.

 

Last December, we were fortunate to host one of our largest label nights to date at Public Records, New York, one of the most renowned venues in the world for sound system quality. One year later, we present to you one of the recordings from the evening, by Brooklyn’s own Salvatore Mercatante.

Live at Public Records captures Salvatore Mercatante at his most unguarded and instinctual, set free from the polish of post-production, delivered to a room of people who gave themselves over to the quiet pull of tension, decay, and harmonic dissonance on one of the best sound systems in the world.

Performed as part of a curated label night inside Public Records’ intimate Sound Room, Salvatore’s set was equal parts sculpture and erosion. Working with a minimalist setup that belied the richness of the result, Salvatore traced an arc through fractured rhythms, bent tones, and fogged-out signal paths, drawing on his 2024 album ‘Ø’ and a trove of unreleased and WIP material.

Following a DJ-set by Aspetuck and preceding a live set by OKRAA as part of the label’s biggest showcase to date, Salvatore’s set was the perfect middle-ground, with signature low-end blooms and crisp drum patterns, reconstituted in real time and massaged by the custom four-point sound system.

Live at Public Records was recorded on December 6th, 2024 in Brooklyn NY, mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw Mastering. Artwork and video taken from photography by Daniel Salemi.

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Intertapes ist eine Sammlung gefundener Musikkassetten. Einige enthalten Musik, andere Sprachnotizen. Jeder Eintrag umfasst Bilder der Kassette, eine Beschreibung/Titelliste und die eigentliche Audioaufnahme auf Soundcloud. Tolle Idee für eine Sammlung.

Dieses in Berlin gefundene Tonband wurde 1994 offenbar von einer Person namens Sven aufgenommen und enthält Tracks von Underworld und Laurent Garnier.

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Home goods company Kohler would like a bold look in your toilet to take some photos. It’s OK, though, the company has promised that all the data it collects on your “waste” will be “end-to-end encrypted.” However, a deeper look into the company’s claim by technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler revealed that Kohler seems to have no idea what E2EE actually means. According to Fondrie-Teitler’s write-up, which was first reported by TechCrunch, the company will have access to the photos the camera takes and may even use them to train AI.

The whole fiasco gives an entirely too on-the-nose meaning to the “Internet of Shit.”

Kohler launched its $600 camera to hang on your toilets earlier this year. It’s called Dekoda, and along with the large price tag, the toilet cam also requires a monthly service fee that starts at $6.99. If you want to track the piss and shit of a family of 6, you’ll have to pay $12.99 a month.

What do you get for putting a camera on your toilet? According to Kohler’s pitch, “health & wellness insights” about your gut health and “possible signs of blood in the bowl” as “Dekoda uses advanced sensors to passively analyze your waste in the background.”

If you’re squeamish about sending pictures of the “waste” of your family to Kohler, the company promised that all of the data is “end-to-end encrypted.” The privacy page for the Kohler Health said “user data is encrypted end to end, at rest and in transit” and it’s mentioned several places in the marketing.

It’s not, though. Fondrie-Teitler told 404 Media he started looking into Dekoda after he noticed friends making fun of it in a Slack he’s part of. “I saw the ‘end-to-end encryption’ claim on the homepage, which seemed at odds with what they said they were collecting in the privacy policy,” he said. “Pretty much every other company I've seen implement end-to-end encryption has published a whitepaper alongside it. Which makes sense, the details really matter so telling people what you've done is important to build trust. Plus it's generally a bunch of work so companies want to brag about it. I couldn't find any more details though.”

E2EE has a specific meaning. It’s a type of messaging system that keeps the contents of a message private while in transit, meaning only the person sending and the person receiving a message can view it. Famously, E2EE means that the messaging company itself cannot decode or see the messages (Signal, for example, is E2EE). The point is to protect the privacy of individual users from a company prying into data if a third party, like the government, comes asking for it.

Kohler, it’s clear, has access to a user’s data. This means it’s not E2EE. Fondrie-Teitler told 404 Media that he downloaded the Kohler health app and analyzed the network traffic it sent. “I didn't see anything that would indicate an end-to-end encrypted connection being created,” he said.

Then he reached out to Kohler and had a conversation with its privacy team via email. “The Kohler Health app itself does not share data between users. Data is only shared between the user and Kohler Health,” a member of the privacy team at Kohler told Fondrie-Teitler in an email reviewed by 404 Media. “User data is encrypted at rest, when it’s stored on the user's mobile phone, toilet attachment, and on our systems.  Data in transit is also encrypted end-to-end, as it travels between the user's devices and our systems, where it is decrypted and processed to provide our service.”

If Kohler can view the user’s data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using E2EE.

"The term end-to-end encryption is often used in the context of products that enable a user (sender) to communicate with another user (recipient), such as a messaging application. Kohler Health is not a messaging application. In this case, we used the term with respect to the encryption of data between our users (sender) and Kohler Health (recipient)," Kohler Health told 404 Media in a statement.

"Privacy and security are foundational to Kohler Health because we know health data is deeply personal. We’re evaluating all feedback to clarify anything that may be causing confusion," it added.

“I'd like the term ‘end-to-end encryption’ to not get watered down to just meaning ‘uses https’ so I wanted to see if I could confirm what it was actually doing and let people know,” Fondrie-Teitler told 404 Media. He pointed out that Zoom once made a similar claim and had to pay a fine to the FTC because of it.

“I think everyone has a right to privacy, and in order for that to be realized people need to have an understanding of what's happening with their data,” Fondrie-Teitler said. “It's already so hard for non-technical individuals (and even tech experts) to evaluate the privacy and security of the software and devices they're using. E2EE doesn't guarantee privacy or security, but it's a non-trivial positive signal and losing that will only make it harder for people to maintain control over their data.”

UPDATE: 12/4/2025: This story has been updated to add a statement from Kohler Health.