Listen to a new FADER Mix by Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk)

“DIY, sexy, steamy, intimate.” Photo by Frankie Castillo Alif Hilal is a “child of Berlin and Berghain.” The Pennsylvania-born, Berlin-based vocalist, producer, composer, and nascent DJ — who changed her name from Lyra Pramuk following her conversion to Islam — has become globally renown for her dense and spirited vocal-based compositions. On 2020’s Fountain, she stacked…

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#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

Krakow’s UNSOUND festival kicked off on Sunday. In honor of this year’s NOISE theme, we asked its featured artists a deceptively simple question: What the fuck is noise? Image via publicist.   “What the fuck is noise?” asks sound artist and theorist Mattin at the start of his essay “Theses on Noise,” laid out plainly…

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