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Katie Hesska

@hesska.bsky.social

DJ | NTS resident | buys books faster than I can read them Radio shows: https://www.nts.live/shows/castles-in-the-sky Book people - I’m @greenwinginmymouth over on Insta

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You can now buy Late-Entry tickets for Day 1 of Chaos Theory Festival, in case you can only join after 11pm for Aja Ireland @ukaeatech.bsky.social and @hesska.bsky.social, who's is one of my favourite DJs ever.

Read why here:
chaostheorymusic.co.uk/artist-profi...

#dj #musicfestival #experimental

21.02.2025 13:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hehehe I fully endorse this behaviour

20.02.2025 13:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mutant club flexes from Shotta Tapes’ alum Leo on a new LP for YOUTH rendering traces of UKG, dembow and brukbeats with weightless sound designer physics inna deadly style //

200 copies, out now

bit.ly/40YCgRv

17.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

It’s true

14.02.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time.

Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

13.02.2025 14:16 — 👍 104    🔁 68    💬 1    📌 7

It isn't easy in the paranoid Labour party at the moment to put your head above the parapet and call out the bullshit.

Respect to Stella Creasy for standing up to this.

Denying refugees a pathway to citizenship is anti-integration nonsense and it reeks of desperation.

12.02.2025 09:21 — 👍 382    🔁 98    💬 8    📌 2
Screenshot of a para of the album description that reads: Old Pain is an album nearly two decades in the making. Beginning in 2006, Drumm and Nordwall endeavored to record together in Chicago, a session ultimately abandoned purportedly due to the influence of “Listening to Finnish Black Metal and drinking good brews”.

Screenshot of a para of the album description that reads: Old Pain is an album nearly two decades in the making. Beginning in 2006, Drumm and Nordwall endeavored to record together in Chicago, a session ultimately abandoned purportedly due to the influence of “Listening to Finnish Black Metal and drinking good brews”.

11.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OLD PAIN, by KEVIN DRUMM + JOACHIM NORDWALL 8 track album

Legends unite 🤝
psychicliberation.bandcamp.com/album/old-pain

11.02.2025 17:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Absolutely! A simple effect done really well

11.02.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photograph ofJules Reidy with microphones and guitars for Quietus interview

Photograph ofJules Reidy with microphones and guitars for Quietus interview

You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit. Miloš Hroch talks to Jules Reidy about this statement fuelled by mysticism, ego death and the influence of shoegaze

Jules Reidy Interviewed

https://buff.ly/41aB6Ul

10.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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The Girl with the Needle (2024) Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond...

Well this absolutely fucked me up. Shout out to Puce Mary’s incredible score boxd.it/KQ3M

11.02.2025 10:44 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop.

Please share our statement below widely.

10.02.2025 11:49 — 👍 331    🔁 254    💬 5    📌 34
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Sphaîra, by Sara Persico 11 track album

My new headphones 🤝 this new Sara Persico album sarapersico.bandcamp.com/album/spha-ra

04.02.2025 13:08 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Castles In The Sky w/ Hesska 23rd January 2025 Playing Glitch, Club, Experimental. Sounds from the rave margins to the weirdo afters with Hesska and guests.

New episode of @hesska.bsky.social's show 'Castles in the Sky' on NTS that features 'Coruscate I' as well as many personal favorites by Bendik Giske, Hesaitix, Ziúr, Agnes Haus, Slikback, Voice Actor, etc 🥰

www.nts.live/shows/castle...

03.02.2025 21:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Image showing the tracklist for my NTS show on 23.01.25:

Bendik Giske - mot skogen 2
Natalie Beridze - Cadence 
STREIKTHROUGH - Hometown 
Ziúr - Lemon 
ex.sses - cannotaccessyou 
PLUS44KALIGULA - Barren Land
Agnes Haus - The Gaping Space Below the Earth 
James Massiah meets Lord Tusk - Open Up
V/Z (Valentina Magaletti & Susumu Mukai) - It is cold in Baltimore
Voice Actor, Squu - Nekk 
Marianna Maruyama & Hessel Veldman - Softly, at first 
Sarah Belle Reid - Study in Nonlinear Dynamics 
en creux - ferre 0163 
Nick Klein - The Soft Pitter Patter of the Pigeon Wing 
Sébastien Forrester - Coruscate I 
Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap 
1127 - 165000 (ft. Caironomixx) [alt version] 
Zeynep Ağcabay - Sultan 
Blacksea Não Maya - BALEBALE 
Slikback - Sea 
Angel R - Dreams 
U.e. - Froggy Explorer

Image showing the tracklist for my NTS show on 23.01.25: Bendik Giske - mot skogen 2 Natalie Beridze - Cadence STREIKTHROUGH - Hometown Ziúr - Lemon ex.sses - cannotaccessyou PLUS44KALIGULA - Barren Land Agnes Haus - The Gaping Space Below the Earth James Massiah meets Lord Tusk - Open Up V/Z (Valentina Magaletti & Susumu Mukai) - It is cold in Baltimore Voice Actor, Squu - Nekk Marianna Maruyama & Hessel Veldman - Softly, at first Sarah Belle Reid - Study in Nonlinear Dynamics en creux - ferre 0163 Nick Klein - The Soft Pitter Patter of the Pigeon Wing Sébastien Forrester - Coruscate I Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap 1127 - 165000 (ft. Caironomixx) [alt version] Zeynep Ağcabay - Sultan Blacksea Não Maya - BALEBALE Slikback - Sea Angel R - Dreams U.e. - Froggy Explorer

First @ntsradio.bsky.social show of the year, loved putting this one together 🖤 Listen back www.nts.live/shows/castle...

26.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

"I have been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life it is shut down... I want the institution to understand that if you want us inside, you have to listen to us outside”

💗 UK literary institutions, I hope you are listening... 💗

05.12.2024 11:41 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
Very bad picture of two dancers on a stage performing Samuel Beckett’s Quad, in the centre of the stage is a person in a white gown and hood bending over, a person in the same outfit but in blue is about to enter the stage

Very bad picture of two dancers on a stage performing Samuel Beckett’s Quad, in the centre of the stage is a person in a white gown and hood bending over, a person in the same outfit but in blue is about to enter the stage

It felt extremely forbidden to take pictures in the fancy concert hall last night so pls accept this terrible pic I took very sneakily, but WOW got to see Samuel Beckett’s Quad performed!! So good!! And then London Sinfonietta performing Morton Feldman’s For Beckett. 10/10 loved it

30.11.2024 10:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An extreme close up of a small ceramic bowl that makes it look like a bacteria under an electron microscope. Text around the outside reads: Castles in the Sky w/ Hesska, Thursday 28.11.24, 00:00-01:00, NTS 1, NTS.live

An extreme close up of a small ceramic bowl that makes it look like a bacteria under an electron microscope. Text around the outside reads: Castles in the Sky w/ Hesska, Thursday 28.11.24, 00:00-01:00, NTS 1, NTS.live

On the radio tonight… nts.live at midnight

From the rave margins to the weirdo afters….

27.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The chief of staff of Israel's genocidal army visited Britain yesterday for a conference. He wasn't arrested for war crimes. Meanwhile 20+ brave people are in British prisons awaiting trial for resisting the Israeli war machine. There's no better way of illustrating that the law doesn't protect us

27.11.2024 09:03 — 👍 40    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
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"To be beautiful is to be a seashell, so open that all the oceans and the fluids of the earth, of the body, are heard through you. Openness so open that it turns itself inside out and makes a snail-shaped labyrinth that leads to the future.”

🖤 Kathy Acker 🐚

23.11.2024 20:10 — 👍 45    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

One day, we'll come to see how they laugh to avoid their monstrosity. They drag it forward into light bc it is in the dark that the terrors start. Months/years from now we will note these videos & see it all. The murderous glee come home to destroy some more.

May justice fall heavy on them forever.

23.11.2024 17:31 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Watermelon Index Mapping resistance to corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine

Israel's genocidal campaign is enabled by the financial, military, diplomatic, & cultural support it gets from companies around the world

The Watermelon Index, a tool for worker-led resistance against the genocide in Palestine. Database of over 400 complicit companies and the campaigns against them

20.11.2024 18:06 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

No worries Yvette, it's actually a matter for us as a small literary publication. And yes, he should be arrested. Other Rome Statute signatories who have questions are free to check in with us for answers! Always happy to help.

22.11.2024 08:11 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hello hello!!! Hope all is good with you 💚

21.11.2024 21:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

beautiful day for the ICC to issue arrest warrants, and every day until the end of time will be a beautiful day to remember Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken should also be liable for aiding and abetting genocide

21.11.2024 15:41 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Co-sign

21.11.2024 12:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesss agree!!! Such a great album

21.11.2024 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Resignation Letter (portrait of a tyrant), by Nebuchadnezzar 14 track album

Is anyone making greater techno rn nebuchadnezzariii.bandcamp.com/album/resign...

21.11.2024 11:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you read this free collection and want to contribute to our writers, several of them have GoFundMes.

The poet & mentor Heba al-Agha: www.gofundme.com/f/support-wr...

Poet Basman Eldirawi & his brother, the playwright Bassem Eldirawi: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ga...

(continues in thread)

18.11.2024 17:56 — 👍 41    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 1

Really love this one too

19.11.2024 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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