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SB004: natsumi hirota - ‘Timelogue’, OUT NOW on all streaming services. Copies of the 12” also available via our Bandcamp and selected stockists.

“Through chronicling both the direct and incidental aspects of communication, Natsumi creates a tribute to the situational spontaneity of shared presence, shaped by the unconscious patterns that underlie human interaction.”

Artwork: ‘Porcelain Rust’ by @gokmennadire

Today is the full release of ‘Smooch Soundsystem [Live at The White Hotel]’, the opening act of LINTD’s three-part project where he reclaims Black Utopia through the technologies of sound. Pre-orders of the cassette will be shipped next week.

The full film for the project (shot by @theoeze + @lily.k9__9 ) can also be viewed on @sickoflintd ‘s YouTube channel now.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Copies of SB002 [ @kop_zd4n ] available via @boomkatonline , complete with a glowing review and ‘Single of the Week’ in their weekly round up.

“In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions.

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.”

Limited copies of SB002 left between our Bandcamp and other selected stockists; act fast to avoid disappointment.

Limited copies of each of our 12” releases [SB001 - @porter_brook__ , SB002 - @kop_zd4n + SB004 - @natsumi_hirota_ ] now available via @hardwax_official 🇩🇪🇪🇺

@natsumi_hirota_ explores sound primarily as active dialogue, informed by her roots in Tokyo’s jazz scene. Tight geometries of low-end systems negotiate the elasticity of live improvisation, enriched by biographical spoken word and vividly coloured passages of found sound.

By centralising the emergent properties of her source material, Natsumi expresses the situational spontaneity of human existence, inseparable from themes of spatial awareness, time, memory, community, and exchange. Her sound is an extension of human communication, both linguistic and non-verbal; a transient but profound mediator of interpersonal connection.

SB004: natsumi hirota - Timelogue, edition of 150 records, available for pre-order now.

SB004: natsumi hirota - Timelogue, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 29.01.2026. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: Prologue
A2: Monologue
B1: Dialogue
B2: Epilogue

Written and Produced by @natsumi_hirota_
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Digital cover + B side artwork ‘Porcelain Rust’, by @gokmennadire
Distributed by Second Born

SB004: natsumi hirota - Timelogue, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 29.01.2026. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: Prologue
A2: Monologue
B1: Dialogue
B2: Epilogue

Written and Produced by @natsumi_hirota_
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Digital cover + B side artwork ‘Porcelain Rust’, by @gokmennadire
Distributed by Second Born

SB004: natsumi hirota - Timelogue, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 29.01.2026. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: Prologue
A2: Monologue
B1: Dialogue
B2: Epilogue

Written and Produced by @natsumi_hirota_
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Digital cover + B side artwork ‘Porcelain Rust’, by @gokmennadire
Distributed by Second Born

SB004: natsumi hirota - Timelogue, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 29.01.2026. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: Prologue
A2: Monologue
B1: Dialogue
B2: Epilogue

Written and Produced by @natsumi_hirota_
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Digital cover + B side artwork ‘Porcelain Rust’, by @gokmennadire
Distributed by Second Born

Use code ‘sb20’ for 20% off our entire physical and digital Bandcamp discography all through December.

If you’ve spent the last 11 months on the fence about any of our releases, now is the time to buy yourself, family or friends a small gift over the festive period and support our plans for the label next year.

SB004, coming in Q1 2026.

Premiered on the 27th of February at @m3_7lw , @maxclibbon ’s 7 minute visualiser for @kop_zd4n ‘s ‘If I’ explores the turning face of England and it’s after echo’s of joy; where sonic pressure stretches endlessly, until the tension itself becomes the event. Available for viewing now on our YouTube channel.

Directed, Filmed and Edited by @maxclibbon
Additional Filming by @_eyerate
Music by @kop_zd4n on @secondborn___

Premiered on the 27th of February at @m3_7lw , @maxclibbon ’s 7 minute visualiser for @kop_zd4n ‘s ‘If I’ explores the turning face of England and it’s after echo’s of joy; where sonic pressure stretches endlessly, until the tension itself becomes the event. Available for viewing now on our YouTube channel.

Directed, Filmed and Edited by @maxclibbon
Additional Filming by @_eyerate
Music by @kop_zd4n on @secondborn___

SB003: LINTD - Smooch Soundsystem [Live at The White Hotel], available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 28.03.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

Excerpt 1
Excerpt 2
Excerpt 3
Excerpt 4
gimme

The full audio will be available on a limited run of cassettes, released alongside the ‘SMOOCH THE IMPOSSIBLE’ film, shot by @theoeze and @lily.k9__9 , edited by Iyunoluwanimi Yemi-Shodimu.

Written and Performed by @sickoflintd and @porter_brook__ , live at @m3_7lw on the 3rd of December 2022
Hosting and additional contributions by @chandedj
Mastered by Miles RS
Words by @kinayasibrahim
Distributed by Second Born

SB003: LINTD - Smooch Soundsystem [Live at The White Hotel], available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 28.03.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

Excerpt 1
Excerpt 2
Excerpt 3
Excerpt 4
gimme

The full audio will be available on a limited run of cassettes, released alongside the ‘SMOOCH THE IMPOSSIBLE’ film, shot by @theoeze and @lily.k9__9 , edited by Iyunoluwanimi Yemi-Shodimu.

Written and Performed by @sickoflintd and @porter_brook__ , live at @m3_7lw on the 3rd of December 2022
Hosting and additional contributions by @chandedj
Mastered by Miles RS
Words by @kinayasibrahim
Distributed by Second Born

As a part of our event next week at The White Hotel [ @m3_7lw ], we will be premiering @maxclibbon ‘s visualiser for ‘If I’, the lead single of @kop_zd4n ‘s debut 12” for Second Born [SB002].

Using footage filmed in Salford, Manchester and London, the 7 minute visualiser captures the turning face of England and it’s after echo’s of joy; where sonic pressure stretches endlessly, until the tension itself becomes the event.

Tickets for Second Born + The White Hotel are on Final Release, and available from RA via secondborn.net .

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 27.02.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: If I
A2: Ape-Essence
B1: Revision
B2: Remote Actions On A Non-Linear Path

Written and Produced by @kop_zd4n
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Vinyl Background Artwork by @46pin
Sticker Artwork by @doomguysbitch
Distributed by Second Born

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 27.02.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: If I
A2: Ape-Essence
B1: Revision
B2: Remote Actions On A Non-Linear Path

Written and Produced by @kop_zd4n
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Vinyl Background Artwork by @46pin
Sticker Artwork by @doomguysbitch
Distributed by Second Born

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 27.02.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: If I
A2: Ape-Essence
B1: Revision
B2: Remote Actions On A Non-Linear Path

Written and Produced by @kop_zd4n
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Vinyl Background Artwork by @46pin
Sticker Artwork by @doomguysbitch
Distributed by Second Born

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System, available for pre-order now from Bandcamp; releasing in full on 27.02.2025. Swipe for audio previews.

A1: If I
A2: Ape-Essence
B1: Revision
B2: Remote Actions On A Non-Linear Path

Written and Produced by @kop_zd4n
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of @demdikestare
Manufactured by @pressonvinyl
Vinyl Background Artwork by @46pin
Sticker Artwork by @doomguysbitch
Distributed by Second Born

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{Thursday} 27th February from 8pm
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Second Born & The White Hotel {presents}

Kop-Z {performing} 'A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System' /
olesia / Obeka {live} / Flames Disperse {live} / Porter Brook + L.Douglas / LINTD

+ Premiere of the visualiser for the track 'If I' {directed by Max Clibbon}

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#olesia / #kopz / #obeka / #flamesdisperse / #secondborn

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{Thursday} 27th February from 8pm
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Second Born & The White Hotel {presents}

Kop-Z {performing} 'A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System' /
olesia / Obeka {live} / Flames Disperse {live} / Porter Brook + L.Douglas / LINTD

+ Premiere of the visualiser for the track 'If I' {directed by Max Clibbon}

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#thewhitehotel / #thewhitehotelsalford
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@_olesia.___ / @kop_zd4n / @obeka_music /@flamesdisperse
@porter_brook__ / @_eyerate / @sickoflintd / @secondborn___
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#olesia / #kopz / #obeka / #flamesdisperse / #secondborn

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{Thursday} 27th February from 8pm
~

Second Born & The White Hotel {presents}

Kop-Z {performing} 'A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System' /
olesia / Obeka {live} / Flames Disperse {live} / Porter Brook + L.Douglas / LINTD

+ Premiere of the visualiser for the track 'If I' {directed by Max Clibbon}

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#thewhitehotel / #thewhitehotelsalford
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@_olesia.___ / @kop_zd4n / @obeka_music /@flamesdisperse
@porter_brook__ / @_eyerate / @sickoflintd / @secondborn___
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#olesia / #kopz / #obeka / #flamesdisperse / #secondborn