Artists

Egyptian Doom/Industrial/Noise duo BENNU push sound to disintegration and collapse. Powered by friendship, the noise of their hometown Cairo, and an almost irresponsible amounts of distortion, their debut EP 'Tabango' started off with the idea of making doom metal with synths.

They have also released singles on labels such as 'Unwanted Attention'.

Evey makes electronic music inspired by 80s Tokyo electronica, Krautrock, Cold Wave and Industrial Post Punk. Evey was the original organiser of Brighton’s EMOM (electronic Music Open Mic) which morphed into Monomania and the Patchworks Label collective as it stands today. He also has his own monthly radio show on Brighton based Slack City Radio with Chloe D called Motor Skills, and designs and curates Metronomic Underground, the yearly Patchworks compilation album and zine.

Beshoy Adel is an audio-visual artist from Cairo, Egypt. He is exploring the smallest building blocks of the universe through algorithmic expressions to find harmony between visuals and sounds.

His Debut EP 'Grudge/Guilt' was released on Patchworks on September 21, 2023.

Named after the airline practice of sending thousands of empty planes up into the skies while the climate crisis looms – which seems an apt metaphor for the sheer strangeness of 21st century life – Ghost Flights makes grimy machine music suggesting abnormal psychic states borne out of intensity and repetition.

The term also brings to mind Karen Russell's sci-fi short story The Ghost Birds, in which the souls of extinct birds follow their old migration paths across polluted airspaces in 2081.

Central to the project is dissonant electronic static, minor key ambience and digital-analogue hybrids. Which means: lo-fi analogue techno, drone and noise.

Marina is a multi instrumentalist whose music is grounded equally in classical and 21st century electronic music. Her tracks explore notions of memory, and often feel like snapshots from a dream, at times pastoral, but with a darkness creeping in at the edges. Indeed, she was described by Stuart Maconie on his Freak Zone show as containing ‘more than a hint of Vaughan Williams’.  

Moore trained as a violinist and violist at the Royal College of Music in London and New England Conservatory in Boston before playing with the likes of Bryan Ferry and Peter Gabriel. In 2022 she recorded solo strings for Brian Eno’s FOREVERANDNOMORE and solo viola for his 2022 installation in Trentino.

Semplica Girls make lysergic, lo-fi sampledelia. Expect grit, grot and grungy, bit-crushed loops with wonky textures that circulate endlessly, finding psychedelic nodes in unlikely sampling sources.

The band picked up a second-hand sampler at Brighton's EMOM and started putting together tracks with no rules or preconceptions as to how they should sound. Where does it land? Perhaps somewhere between Eric Copeland’s Hermaphrodite and Secret Boyfriend’s This Is Where You’ve Always Lived: acoustic samples, loops, electronic noise and everything in-between.

Egyptian musician and Patchworks co-founder Ahmed Abdelaziz, better known by his nickname: Zizo, is an electronic musician and producer from Cairo.

He has released music under various aliases, including PYLON&ON&ON, with works featured on  Patchworks label.
Blending elements of techno, noise, drone, and hip-hop, Zizo crafts a sound that is both experimental and deeply personal, weaving an intimate narrative through his music.