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co-directing: @komoost @hybrid.festival
team manager: @draaimolen_
cultural worker ☉ DJ ☉ writer

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OOST, our love. Nine years in that place have shaped my identity like nothing else has. Past months: frustrating, wing-clipping, ludicrous. Last weekend: exactly what it needed to be. The emotional release…

For my general sentiments I wanna refer to the caption I wrote for the final @komoost post; it came straight from the ticker. Praying to dog that it managed to reflect a bit of everyone involved in this beautiful place.

On top of it: one very special word of love to @long.bram and @jorncanrinus. Thank you for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime to materialise an artistic vision together with everyone around us. Teenage dream fulfilled, it’s been the highest honour, I’ll owe both of you forever <3

And bless everyone who worked, danced and clicked behind these glass doors. In there, feeling and sharing what it’s all really about. by @aka__kos

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Surreal to see a wild idea we had three years ago form into a fully fledged festival. Today the lineup we’ve worked on over the past year meets the stage at four fantastic locations around Groningen. Can’t wait to see how @hybrid.festival 2025 goes down!

Huge thank-you to production legends @annikaklngnbrg & @wietsekuiper, marketing minds @echtejannes & Tim Stienstra, graphic design visionary @timtijink, funding wizard @annelieloos, all of the staff on location, the volunteers(MVP’s), all of the patient agents and the partners who helped pull this thing together. Hope to see you anywhere between 20:00 and dawn!

Picture by @sjoerdknol by @aka__kos

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2 years ago

aka Kos. Bookie boy. Brain and body music alchemist. Forging electronic alloys with clipped edges of scorched metal. Watch him conjure a trance, only to distort it at the right time.

This Saturday Kos opens our @dkmntl night. Come dance, kom OOST.

Video credits
Co-direction: @annikaklngnbrg & @radina_kordova
Camera & edit: @frankeclara
Script: @sacrescare
Music: eoobe (@elinatapio & @_la_serpiente__) — Halim’s Path
Voice: @rosiereith
Titles: @timtijink
Commissioned by OOST, Groningen, 2024-25 by @aka__kos

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We’re running it back. May it rain blessings unto @relate.radio for inviting me for a second season. As fun and lowkey as it is, it feels like this show really helped me nail my lane; only took me ten years. Highly recommend running a (bi)monthly show to anyone with a love for playing music!

The last 2 shows before summer are up on my SC now, summoning club focus: farfetched influences and complex emotions pulled into one psychedelic, decade spanning groove. The forever pursuit.

Season 2 starts 09.10 with one my absolute 050 favs @pekkelpekkel by @aka__kos

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17 days ago

Brussels shenans with the @komoost fam, spending a beautiful afternoon at @gimic.radio. The recording’s up; plucked some dubby, restrained, timeless brain kneaders that I’ve enjoyed playing recently. If we’ve shared a dance floor these past months, you might recognize some. S/o to the peeps making the (all too short) hangout, this city’s stealing my heart one visit at a time.

Relistening made possible by the link in my bio 🕳️ by @aka__kos

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5 months ago

Back to jockeying with this triple threat weekend of dreams. Long opening blessed by the last daylight, live shows framed in dub transmissions and a face-off with the big stacks in freetek setup. Big shouts for the invites & see you around <3

26.02 @moc__live w/ @afiadlm
28.02 @paradigm050 x @zeezout_nl
28.02 @hondsrugtales w/ @afiadlm

Picture: OOST closing by @zwindo by @aka__kos

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7 months ago

Of course the heart & soul passion project gets overhauled instantaneously. Luckily we still have the memories. I’ve been getting enormous joy from collaging an hour of music every month; everything else in the pipeline for ALOW stays right there for just a little bit longer. I’ll chalk it up to other writing bits, new job, OOST and the works. Medium-sized things coming.

Tonight in fact: back on @relate.radio at 21:00 with a handful of no wave, art punk, postpunk favourites. The previous two ALOS shows – including the most frivolous minute of radio I’ve ever squeezed out in slide 2 – are up on SoundCloud now. S/o to the various studio goblins making the first Friday of every month a blast. by @aka__kos

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8 months ago

Next up on the Moerasa mix series 🍄

@aka__kos pulls the twisted nature of first wave industrial into the 21st century. Through spellbinding techno, murky electronics, freakish mutations of house music and a scorched punk fringe, the @komoost booker draws experimentation of all decades from the cables and currents. Out the other end flow continuously morphing sets that are all about rewiring notions of brain music and body music. About forging a trance and then distorting it at the right time.

Edits by @beacarolyn by @aka__kos

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10 months ago

For every edition of ‘A Lump Of Sound’ I, also known as Kos, poke around another outskirt of my music collection. Tracing the connection between strange genre pairings to shove sticks into the wheels called ‘dance music’ and ‘listening music’. 
In this first episode the intrigue of industrial meets the fringe joy of outsider house. From the late eighties til the odd age of now the two have been mysteriously connected. On the ALOW Substack I wrote up a very short, TL;DR introduction to the ‘how’. 
Listen to, read about and scour the full tracklist via the link in bio. The next episode, orbiting a core of dub and noise, airs on Nov. 7th via @relate.radio. 
Tracks in slides:
1. Insomer Transition – Parametric Pressure + Wighnomy Brothers – Epinikkion
2. Lee Combs & David Phillips vs Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye Breakbeat Rerub
3. Pom Pom – Untitled 9 + Mark Ambrose – Zulu Groove
4. Jo Creep – Dream Room 314
5. Scanner & Nurse With Wound – Causticum + Psychic TV – She Was Surprised
6. Ø (Mika Vainio) – Spiraalit by @aka__kos

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a year ago

Hi there! After years of dedication to facilitating I find my own creative outlet firmly planted in the backseat. On and off however, a whirlwind of thoughts and ideas dominates the cobwebs. The only thing that keeps me from sharing is a mild impostor anxiety – something you might recognise.

The antidote: a low-barrier means to share. The goal: removing some cobwebs out of your brain too via bite-sized lumps of thoughtful content. Meet ‘A Lump Of Whatever’ (@alumpofwhatever). Swipe to get familiar.

The first radio show – A Lump Of Sound on @relate.radio – is up on SoundCloud now. The first essay – A Lump Of Text – via Substack is on the cards for next week. Visit the links up top.

I’d love to not make this all about me; that’s why ALOW is designed as an open-ended framework. Got suitable ideas for a format or content? Hit me up via DMs.

Hope you enjoy.

A Lump Of <3,

Kos

Picture by @frankeclara by @aka__kos

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Bits, bobs & big shifts

10.05 @liminoid.collective b2b @ela.404_music
24.05 @pipdenhaag b2b @nathanhomandj
31.05 @paradigm050 b2b ???
08.06 @komoost b2b @_____selin_ by @aka__kos

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episode III: saltpetre

alas, the third curse of this series.

culminated by aka Kos and the following ingredients:

saltpetre, ether, JEM Pro-Fog fluid

find the mix and its elements in the link in our bio.

until the next moon,

@aka__kos
artwork: Sophia Reedijk (@sophiareedijk) by @aka__kos

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