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follow/up — ur.x record release party at kukumu, 24.09.2026

Ur.X follow/up record release party flyer — KUKUMU, Lübecker Str. 43, Berlin Moabit, 24.09.2026, 20 Uhr
Ur.X — follow/up · record release · KUKUMU, 24.09.2026

Well my friends, propaganda works best when it is served with cake and cheap furniture.

follow/up is the new ur.x record / gets its official release party on 24.09.2026, 20 Uhr at KUKUMU, Lübecker Str. 43, Berlin Moabit. Record release party, as the poster says. I will be there pressing keys and questioning my life choices, as usual.

and this time it comes with the full treatment: live video projections alongside the music. the record will not just be played; it will be seen. you know i do not do things halfway, the visuals are part of the deal.

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come by, have a drink, listen to the thing actually being played out loud in a room instead of through your phone speaker. that still matters, more than ever.

24.09.2026 · 20 uhr · KUKUMU · Lübecker Str. 43, Moabit.

embrace the propaganda.

Ur.X presents: follow/up — trailer

OK, so Uri and I have been quietly at it again. New Ur.X episode: follow/up — the trailer is up on the channel, the thing itself will follow. Or follow up. Hence the title. Nobody said we were subtle.

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As always, Ur.X is me and Uri Killisch — electronics, real instruments, and the occasional argument about reverb. The last full-length, no w here, is still out there (Spotify, urx-sound.com) if you want to catch up first. No obligation. It won’t improve your life expectancy, but it fills the silence nicely.

More on the release soon. Until then, embrace the propaganda:

So go and take a look. And spread it, my friends.

More from the Ur.X series: here, here and here.

urx-sound.com · Spotify

Ur.X at Superbooth 2025 — FEZ Berlin

Ur.X at Superbooth 2025, FEZ Berlin
Superbooth 2025, FEZ Berlin — Foto: Enkidu rankX

Ur.X packed the rigs and went to Superbooth 2025 — Europe’s biggest gathering for synths, modular madness and music technology, at FEZ-Berlin (20.–22. Mai 2025). Enkidu rankX & Uri Killisch, live, electronic, and sufficiently unstable.

A synth fair is an honest place: everyone there believes a machine can feel something. We did our part to confirm the suspicion — electronics, sampling and video, wired the usual Ur.X way. New material from „no w here“ included; the signal, as always, decodes better in person.

The photo above documents the official Ur.X diplomatic technique for crowded fairgrounds: advanced glitch, both subjects either moving or transcending.

More about the unit and its transmissions: urx-sound.com · Spotify. The New York chapter of the story is here: Ur.X live at Onkan-音間, Bushwick.

Superbooth, thanks for the patch cables and the strange looks. Both were put to good use.

Ur.X live at Onkan-音間 — Bushwick, New York, 20. April 2025

Ur.X live in New York
Ur.X live at Onkan-音間, Bushwick, New York — Foto (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de)

Ur.X went transatlantic. Sunday, April 20 2025, 7pmOnkan-音間 at Synesthesia, Bushwick, New York. Onkan, if you will, is the ethereal space between notes — an appropriate slot for a band whose website currently decodes corrupted transmissions between Berlin and nowhere.

The evening opened with the piano-electric performance of Richard Sylvarnes, longtime co-conspirator. Then Ur.X — rankX & Uri Killisch wove their electronic beats into the atmosphere, while Ayumi Ishito (saxophone) and Daniel Carter (horns) engaged in a spontaneous improvisational dialogue. The occasion: the celebration of new album releases — ours among them, „no w here“.

Ur.X — Enkidu rankX & Uri Killisch, April 2025
Ur.X — Enkidu rankX & Uri Killisch, April 2025 — Foto (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de)

New York heard it first. The signal, naturally, kept travelling: urx-sound.com · Spotify.

Event page with the full lineup: Synesthesia — Onkan-音間. Photos of the night live on Instagram: ur.x_project.

Silence dances with melody, they promised. We brought the melody. The silence can complain.


Second night across the pond: Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn

Ur.X live @ Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn — As part of the „Vampÿrates & Others“ bill, we brought Ur.X across the pond to 221 Nassau St, Brooklyn in April 2025. It is always a great pleasure to share space and bandwidth with people like Richard Sylvarnes, Bradley Eros, and Keiko Uenishi. Direct, low-latency electronic transmission in high physical proximity. Listen to what happened and get an idea of what interesting sounds there are around once you leave the realm of mind-numbing mainstream musac.

Photos on this page: (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de) unless noted.

Ur.X — no w here. Out now on all frequencies

Albumcover: no w here von Ur.X
Ur.X — no w here, front cover

Signal detected, decoded, released. Ur.X — the Berlin-based unit of Enkidu rankX and Uri Killisch — has a new album out: „no w here“. Isolation, Trieb, Druck, Sehnsucht — the tracklist reads like a transmission log from a self that refuses to stay assembled. Because that is roughly what it is. The cover, in case you wonder, is exactly as alive as it looks.

The album lives where all good fragments live: on Spotify and wherever else streaming carries a signal.

And because an album these days needs a haunting ground of its own: urx-sound.com. Not a website — a decoder. Signal strength fluctuating, fragments embedded, coordinates pointing somewhere between Berlin and nowhere. You will figure it out; the site certainly will not make it easy. That is not a bug.

Listen in order, or in disorder. The corruption level is at 37% and rising.

background radiation @ Radio Industry — Woltersdorfer Festival für Kunst + Gegenwart 2023

Enkidu rankX und Sulamith Sallmann bei Radio Industry, Woltersdorf 2023
background radiation bei Radio Industry, Woltersdorf — Foto (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de)

Radiation travels well by radio — fitting, then, that we took background radiation, our book and multimedia project about nuclear obsession, to Radio Industry, the Woltersdorfer Festival für Kunst + Gegenwart (28.8.–10.9.2023).

Frank Diersch had the kindness (or the courage) to invite Sulamith Sallmann and me to present the project on his station — recorded on site in Woltersdorf bei Berlin, September 2023. We talked radiation, history, and why you cannot un-hear a Geiger counter once you have heard one. The book behind it all: Hintergrundstrahlung / Background Radiation — das Künstlerbuch.

The festival itself was a fine beast: interdisciplinary, radio-centric, and hosted in a village that once powered Berlin from the water — the old Woltersdorf power station theme runs deep this year, much like our gig in another power plant, the Dieselkraftwerk in Cottbus. Industry, converted into culture. A pattern, one might say.

Full visual documentation by Sulamith Sallmann, as usual: Festival für Kunst + Gegenwart 2023. Go and listen, if you have the stomach for it.

Auftritt von toshh2c im Dieselkraftwerk — Cottbus, 3. Dezember 2022

toshh2c live im Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
Auftritt von toshh2c im Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus — Foto (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de)

Well, some gigs you remember for the room. This one had a room with history: the Dieselkraftwerk in Cottbus — a former power plant, since 2008 home to the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst. Playing electroacoustic music where the turbines used to hum has a certain irony to it. We provided the noise, the building provided the reverb.

toshh2c live at Dieselkraftwerk / Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus — 3. Dezember 2022. Uri Killisch & Enkidu rankX.

Industry, converted into culture — a recurring pattern in my work, it seems: background radiation at Radio Industry, Woltersdorfer Festival für Kunst + Gegenwart 2023.

toshh2c live im Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus — zweite Ansicht
Noch eine Ansicht — Foto (c) Sulamith Sallmann (sulamith-sallmann.de)

All photos by Sulamith Sallmann, who stood closer to the action than anyone reasonably should. The full set lives on her page: Auftritt von toshh2c im Dieselkraftwerk.

Go and have a look. You might find something that pleases or disturbs your eyes — same deal as with the ears.

phaenos — Oath of Stone Oak, with Robert Fitterman (Bandcamp)

Oath of Stone Oak — phaenos Cover
phaenos — Oath of Stone Oak

Oath of Stone Oak — a live sound performance by Enkidu rankX and Klaus Killisch in collaboration with poet Robert Fitterman, recorded at the exhibition space of Broken Dimanche, Berlin, 2018, released September 2022. One track, one oath, sworn somewhere between poetry and electricity.

The concert itself made it into the diary back then: Oath of Stone Oak — Concert (2018). Now the recording followed. Listen on Bandcamp.

phaenos — tempus fugit, live at Krankenhauskirche (Bandcamp)

tempus fugit — phaenos Cover
phaenos — tempus fugit

tempus fugit — live at the Krankenhauskirche im Wuhlgarten, Berlin, September 2017, finally out on Bandcamp (March 2022). Time dissolves in sound, they say; in a church that has been standing since 1902 and spent decades half-abandoned, sound dissolves right back.

Two parts, one vast resonant room, no way out but through. Listen on Bandcamp. The church and its 20-year anniversary exhibition are documented here: Neue Arbeit — New Work (2017).

Me and my buddies on bandcam

Since I am to lazy and arrogant and can’t be bothered at least promoting my own stuff i have to instrumentalise others to do it for me. And so it is up to the real nice and sympathetic people of this world (looking at you Klaus Killisch) to do it for me. I would have loved to be better, more motivated and less of a misanthrope, but as the great philosopher Michael Philip Jagger once said: „You can’t always get what you want“. Welp, at least someone had pity on me and put those thigs on bandcamp. I would argue that their stuff is worth it (mine not so much) but you form your own opinion.

„in​/​ebriate“ by phaenos. Cover design by Klaus Killisch

So go and take a listen: phaenos @ bandcamp

Do it for their sake, not mine, and you might find some things that please or disturb your ears. And you can even buy the stuff there.