Dissontiya is a Berlin-based collective of producers, DJs and artists that started up a label in 2025 – filling a void in the underground electronic community where club music is allowed to intermingle with noise, industrial sounds and dystopian aesthetics. While most labels have a determined and laser-focused intent to either release dance music or to be purely experimental, Dissontiya groups artistic visions by aesthetic rather than output. I think that is why their first two compilations have resonated so deeply with me personally, and with what Record Turnover stands for.
You don’t have to be one or the other, sometimes it’s ok to be the secret third thing. On their two various artists releases they have gathered producers that are well-known from the electro world but also from breakbeat and industrial idioms. People like Umwelt and Lord Jalapeños appear side by side with Ukrainian dungeon rap producer DJ Sacred and US techno producer Midnight Climax. The Ukraine connection is strong and several artists who have appeared on the label so far are originally from the war-torn country.
We recently wrote about their new joint release with Model Sex from Tunisia, which is another breath of fresh air in the world of electronic labels. For the upcoming event Record Turnover are hosting together with Dissontiya, several Tunisian artists are on the lineup – Shersh, deköm (who runs Model Sex) and Sarla. Members of the wider circle of friends around Dissontiya like Christopher Bo, thorp and Terror Phoenix who all appeared on Body Alterations II are also part of the lineup.
For the first interview ever to be made with the people behind the label, I wanted to get inside their heads to understand what unites them, as well as what sets them apart from the crowd.
Who are Dissontiya?
We are currently Autocannibal, Costa and ?¿ and we started working together in June 2025, so we are still kind of new as a label.
You’ve collaborated with club8, Model Sex and – next month – with RT too. How do you decide who to work with?
When it comes to collaborative work and choices we follow an intuitive approach. It could be that we resonate with someone through music, communication or views. Impulses and feelings guide us, rather than deliberation. It’s all about safety and comfort and empathy.
How would you describe the sounds that you gather around?
The first word that came to mind for Autocannibal was ‘dystopian’. We all agree that it correlates well with each of our personal backgrounds, as well as with the sound that comes from our residents and collaborators. We are generally into a wide variety of styles but the main preference is always for industrial and grungy breakbeat and electro. Other good descriptors are probably noisy and distorted as well. In the future we would love to broaden our inclusion of styles with some dungeon rap, ambient, as well as more classical jungle and electro.
Or as Autocannibal said recently, succinctly and somewhat deep: Self-Destructing Melancholy : )
As producers, what drives you to create and how do you envision your music reaching listeners?
Costa said something that all three of us feel like we can rally behind: Music is my way of communication. In no other way can I convey my inner experiences as deeply as through music. It’s on level with empathy – when you listen and immerse yourself into someone’s universe. Dissontiya is more about impulse, about self-expression – a sound that doesn’t try to please or impress. It just is what it is, with every story of each one of our artists.
The first I heard of any of you was the Natural Sciences tape by Costa, which we wrote about in 2024. Are there any other releases (past or upcoming) I should know about?
Autocannibal’s album Broken Dogs is being prepared to launch on Dissontiya this May. Last year his band Subflowers did a record called Voltage Neglect on Prague’s DIY West Coast label Sing Sing Soundsystem (check them out as well, great people!). [NB yes Prague has a west coast]
There are actually many more releases in the works for the label – too many to mention. What we can reveal is that there are going to be some solo releases, both from residents (thorp, Terror Phoenix, Christopher Bo, Shersh) but also from other producers we haven’t worked with before.
Exciting things ahead then. For anyone else feeling inspired after reading this, what’s the point of starting a label in 2026?
Community. Think about social media, where we are as close to each other as ever, but at the same endlessly far away. The world moves so fast, people are losing track of each other and their connections. We want to build something that can be sustained and try to bring together all the people that we know and will come to know. It is a nice thing to think about – that we could connect all the amazing friends we have, their musical projects and their labels.
Speaking of community, what can we expect from the upcoming event at Sameheads in Berlin?
On April 9th we are hosting a night dedicated to exploratory electronic music, bringing together artists from across Europe (and beyond) through the collaboration with you guys. Moving from early evening atmospheres into the deep hours of the night, we blend live electronics and electro with ritualistic club rhythms. Expect a journey through machines, landscapes and stories carried by sound.
Some of our close friends and collaborators like Christopher Bo, Terror Pheonix and thorp are all travelling to Berlin to perform live for the Sameheads audience. And deköm, who we just released a record together with, is coming all the way from Tunis.
It’s gonna be a night where borders dissolve through sound – live machines, deep rhythms and the meeting of underground scenes from Berlin, Copenhagen and beyond. Who knows, we might even have a new release ready for this event…
I’m also looking forward to it! Thanks for talking to us.
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On a side note, the warm-up for the evening is No Hay Futuro, the DJ duo of Record Turnover and Bette Davis Eyes. They’re also playing this weekend in Poland, together with a friend of Dissontiya called K3RZC.
See you at Sameheads on April 9th for collab event, all the info is on Resident Advisor.
