Somewhere between continuous transgression and artistic honesty, Guy Alexander Brewer asserts himself with the wisdom of someone who knew how to capture the zeitgeist of the new millennium—with all its nuances, fragilities, and circumstances. We need to go back to the first decade after Y2K to situate him as an agitator on the British electronic scene. With the duo Commix, he joined Goldie’s Metalheadz family. In an era when drum & bass crystallized futuristic utopias, Brewer never stopped expanding his listening radar and his determination to innovate. It was, therefore, at the dawn of the following decade, around 2011, that techno – and its extraterrestrial infusions – captured his imagination. Thus Shifted was born, one of the most celebrated symbols of the genre, who for some time used anonymity to throw off attention. Based in Berlin, he devoted himself to distilling the seemingly monolithic body of techno, extracting its roughness and penetrating microporous fabrics in search of melodic shadows beneath the hard stone. Brilliant records and an immaculate career earned him a status on the international circuit coveted by many.
On this solid path, and between side projects more closely linked to noise or ambient music, Brewer felt the need for change. Realizing the cyclical predictability of Shifted, he closed that chapter and gave rise to his current pseudonym: Carrier. At a sidereal altitude, made up of rhythmic insights and dynamics closer to dub, the sonic pulse takes on a structural role. A nervous and vaporous IDM marks yet another authorial identity for Brewer. The latest EPs, In Spectra and Tender Spirits, highlight the alchemical properties in which the producer has specialized: music that breathes, contaminates, and infiltrates the confines of consciousness.
Moreover, there is a whole quantum universe present in Lazy Mechanics, Carrier’s worthy debut album on the ever-brilliant The Trilogy Tapes. It is there that we are led to a dimension far removed from what we have experienced so far. An organic purification and alignment of lessons from one of the superlative names in contemporary electronic music – without fear of tomorrow.
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Alëna Koleso is a visual and sound artist residing in Barreiro, Portugal. Her work moves between drawing, publishing, and noise music – performed in spaces ranging from the village to academia. In her performances, Koleso often works with everyday objects, such as washing machines, pencils, and bicycles – transforming them into chaotic symphonies that challenge the audience’s comfort and curiosity. For her DJ sets, she blends field recordings and spontaneous finds, jumping across genres and seeking new connections. Her practice is driven by questioning how we remember and experience the world – not to find answers, but to create space for a shift, a break, a collective crack to fall through. In recent years, her practice has expanded through learning, collaborating, and showing with entities like Klammklang, Radio Fantasia, Out.ra, LOM, Salon Acme, and many others – friends and family included.

Lournco Lvgs both pulls inspiration from and is pushed creatively by this textural world in all of his pursuits within music and sound. In between his different activities as a DJ, producer, label manager and booker, Lournco’s quest lies in investigating the connection between the physical and the intangible elements of music – his sound will bridge the hedonistic dance-floor with the cerebral and introspective.