Video: Montalegre, Portugal, 10.03.2024 / Music excerpt: Hissing 'Burning Door' from the LP Burning Door, released in 2019 on Utech Records.

The Verge

A transformative roadmap for a new brand on the verge of making sense of fashion + underground music, through diligent work of collaboration with unique artists we admire. Devised to Resonate. Noise is Resistance. 

Back in January 2025 I sent an email to Kevin Gan Yuen of bay area noise favourites SUTEKH HEXEN. This email was just a 'Hello, this is the guy who's been engaging with you on IG'. Then I realised that since I started posting my weekly mixes via portcorner.com at the beginning of Covid 19, I had featured SH tracks in 7 mixes... its up there with some of my all time favourite bands such as Coil, Sunn o))) or Autechre.

So around May I asked Kevin if he'd be interested in putting together a playlist of some of his favourite music for a new mix, and what would be the first guest curated entry in more than 5 years and 200+ mixes. Clocking at almost 2 hours, this is a surprising compilation of songs, and a novel challenge. Stitching together such a disparate medley goes against the grain of my kind of mixes which are always mood/thematic/genre specific. I'd never mix breakcore with black metal (sorry Igorrr) but there's always a first.

Going through the songs, there's hymns of teen angst reveries and romance, forever classics and as you'd expect, a bunch of contemporaries to the sound of Sutekh Hexen. A list became a mix, it weaves between dreamy and ominous, the reference and the unknown, the enjoyable and the unsettling, a testament to Kevin's rich tapestry of influences and sensibilities, balancing what is in his own words: 'that grey area which is the shadow from the light'. 

Listen to the mix here.

Images are courtesy of Kevin, from his personal photography collection, with significance to what is presented in the mix.

Introducing V.A.M.O.S. (Verge Advanced Modular Optimised System) - our disruptive, modular, shape-shifting system that showcases our ongoing approach to circular and sustainable production. We've been making shoes for 20 years and have the know-how and the drive to see through our contribution to change in consumerism and waste.


With this effort we invite our target audience to think needs rather than wants, to dramatically reduce consumption and prioritise their products quality and longevity.


 

the Sutekh Hexen boot project, October 2025


The V.A.M.O.S (Verge Advanced Modular Optimisation System) program is the core of our approach to fighting the evil of consumerism. An initiative that highlights the pressing need for change and the adoption of sustainable routines and practices in new product development and production.

Stemming from our own experience as makers, we became first-hand witnesses of the broken, immoral capitalist-endorsed relationship between industry and market and have decided to do something about it.

The important keywords to take away are: Standard and Timeless. Upcycle and Recycle. Repair and Reuse. No Over Production.

We are grateful for the chance we have to contribute to change, doing the stuff we love, in our very own community, with the makers we have known for years and can call friends. All our materials are sourced with supply chain traceability, most of them available in a 5 km radius. All our materials are hand picked and upcycled from existing stocks in these very same factories we are making the product, chasing the arcadia of circularity.

We make products through optimistic eyes, not trying to reinvent products every season which will entail needless design, sampling and selling efforts. Putting out garbage for the sake of newness, to generate newsletters and worthless social media. To desperately pay mounting bills at the expense of exploited staff and interns. 

Returns will be repaired, resold or donated. Our products will have little marketing material, no hand tags, no exaggerated labels, we don't use what we don't need. Consumerism is an environmental disaster and a spiritual void. Do not stress about it. Do something about it.

the Sutekh Hexen boot project, October 2025

Editorial / Manifesto

Who Owns The Dark?
Devised To Resonate. Noise is Resistance


The Verge proposes a transformative roadmap to how we can create a brand on the verge of making sense of the inextricable relationship between fashion and music. Through work of collaboration with a painstakingly curated selection of challenging and unfettered artists, leading the way in the realms of experimental music, way left of the current field, from esoteric to the extreme.

Our aim is to translate our combined conceptual visions, production values and experience into timeless fashion products. A collection of signature exemplars made with intention, ignoring fads and embracing the path to minimise the devastating effects fashion has on our planet.

We have worked in fashion for 20 years and have experienced first hand what it is to live in a near constant state of cognitive dissonance, in a ruthless culture of non stop consumerism, where needless, useless new products are churned in with every scroll of a screen, where distinguishing the good from the bad and the ugly is becoming an alarmingly difficult task.

We have worked in fashion for 20 years, sourcing products in footwear and apparel to some of the most forward thinking brands and fashion houses in the world. While doing so we have experienced, first hand, what it is to live in a near constant state of cognitive dissonance, in a ruthless culture of non stop consumerism, where needless new products are churned in with every (doom) scroll of a screen, where distinguishing the good from the bad and the ugly is becoming an alarmingly difficult task.

Our aim is to translate our combined love for fringe experimental and underground music, artistic visions and production values into timeless products, touching on signature standards, which will resonate with a new crop of consumers looking for honest and elevated products they can relate to, both classic and contemporary. (Pic: Pedro Falcão. From Ruin by Candura & Rui Chafes at Serralves, Amplifest, Sept. 2023)

Products with a twist, that are made to the highest standard, at a selection of local factories in our hometown in the north of Portugal. People we know for years and can call friends. Products that are made to endure fads, while embracing the path to minimise the devastating effects fashion has on our planet. (Pic: Portcorner Archive, 2018)

We live in a fast fashion world, feasting off the ghoul of consumerism and creating a huge environmental impact and spiritual void. We can't ignore its contribution to pollution, resource depletion, and climate change. The Verge is us doing our part through collective catharsis. (Pic: Rest On Your Arms Reversed by The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, 1999)
Bathory Blood Fire Death

Editorial / 10 Albums Manifesting The Verge - Part 1

#1: Bathory 'Blood Fire Death' 1988


It’s sometime in August 1993. Another lazy Sunday afternoon, no a.c. 35 celsius, at Pedro's house. Some other guy plays a very different record. It’s Bathory’s ‘Blood Fire Death’.

I had listened to inspired intros, from classical to Vangelis - I even had several tapes filled with short, often eerie, mostly atmospheric and instrumental pieces I called (and still do) "intermissions" that I stitched between long tracks, right after an abrupt close or just carefully used as inspired fillers to reach a tape's full capacity - but listening to ‘Oden Ride over Nordland’ while staring at the rather peculiar cover art of the album (for a metal release) sends energetic chills down my spine. This is another one of them (ever so scarce) experiences when you find yourself listening to an album for the very first time and you already know it will go down as a special one, because you're already dropped a few 'wow' on the first couple of tracks.


#2: The Young Gods 'L'Eau Rouge' 1989

#3: Emperor 'In The Nightside Eclipse' 1994

#4: Today is The Day 'Temple of The Morning Star' 1997

#5: Godspeed You Black Emperor 'Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven' 2000

#6: Sunn O))) - 'Flight of The Behenoth' 2002

#7: Lurker Of Chalice 'Lurker Of Chalice' 2005

#8: Krallice 'Dimensional Bleedthrough' 2009

#9: Deathspell Omega 'Paracletus' 2010

#10: Rafael Anton Irisarri 'A Fragile Geography' 2015

Mixes / Every week we soundtrack the Verge

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VERGE #84 - Cosmic Drifter

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1. Ben Frost – Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions (2025) – Permcat, Ки́їв – start
2. JASSS – Eager Buyers (2025) – Wood Words – 03:00
3. Murcof – Twin Color, Vol. 1 (2024) – Cosmic Drifter – 08:45
4. Hiro Kone – Silvercoat The Throng (2021) – Mundus Patet – 14:11
5. Ulwhednar – Area 08 (2023) – Winter Wasteland – 19:30
6. Prurient – Bermuda Drain (2011) – Let’s Make A Slave – 22:06
7. Yamila – Visions (2022) – Visions II – 26:25
8. Tim Hecker – The North Water OST (2021) – Loot – 30:52
9. Worriedaboutsatan – Everything Remotely Useful Must Be Destroyed And Replaced With A Subscription based Streaming Model (2024) – 33:10
10. Olga Wojciechowska – Infinite Distances (2019) – Starless Water – 40:00
11. Loscil – Monument Builders (2016) – Drained Lake – 42:03
12. Puce Mary – STUCK (2022) – Three Body Problem – 47:33
13. Pye Corner Audio – Black Mill Tapes (10th Anniversary Box) (2020) – Transmission One: Lonesome Vale – 54:00
14. Flore Laurentienne – 8 Tableaux (2024) – Feuilles IV – 55:30
15. MMMD – Nomenklatura (2022) – Nomenklatura – 59:16

Mix Cover: Artwork for Puce Mary STUCK released in 2022 on Hypersomnia.
Banner Image: Still taken from MMMD’s official video for Nomenklatura (Video by Kyros Papavassiliou). Mobile image: Crop of Murcof’s Twin Colors cover artwork.

VERGE #82 - Dreams Now Major Events

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1. Cryo Chamber, Plague Machinery, Atrox Pestis – Tomb of Iconoclasts (2025) – Longing for What Lies Beyond – start
2. Atrium Carceri, Herbst9 – Ur Djupan Dal (2018) – Drakhuvud – 08:53
3. Spiritual Poison – Incorporeal (2023) – Return – 14:05
4. Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams (2023) – Dreams Now Major Events – 22:25
5. Roly Porter – Life Cycle of a Massive Star (2013) – Sequence – 33:40
6. Randall Dunn – Beloved (2018) – Theoria / Aleph – 38:08
7. Sundrugs – Rituals I (2020) – Gyfu – 46:29
8. Cities Last Broadcast – The Humming (2016) – Tapes Glossolalia – 58:40
9. Raison D’être – Mise en Abyme (2014) – Infernos – 01:05:10
10. Funerary Call – Beckoning At the Black (2007) – Hill of Skull and Bone – 01:19:42

Mix Cover: Artwork for Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams (2023).
Banner Image: Peter Andersson (Raison D’être).

VERGE #81 - The Genesis of Light

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1. Gnaw Their Tongues – The Genesis of Light (2025) – The Genesis of Light (Part Three) – start
2. Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call – P: R: I: S: M: (2023) – Meridian غ – 10:00
3. Catafalque – We Will Always Suffer (2020) – Not Even the Storm Could Wash These Hands Clean – 20:30
4. The Human Quena Orchestra – The Politics of The Irredeemable (2009) – Mores Part ii – 26:57
5. Many Blessings – Emanation Body (2020) – Harm Signal – 38:25
6. Nekrasov – Lust of Consciousness (2019) – The Lust of Consciousness – 47:39
7. Hiverlucide – Satan Death Whale (2023) – Whale – 55:57
8. Colossloth – Heathen Needles (2017) – Sedentary Signals – 01:15:35
9. Phill Niblock – BestiaIRE (2020) – BESTIA (performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux & Hélène Breschand) – 01:26:32
10. Wolvserpent – Perigaea Antahkarana (2013) – Threshold: Gateway – 01:47:55
11. Marco Fusinato & Striborg – Extended Breakdown (2018) – Extended Breakdown, Pt. 2- 01:51:10

Mix Cover: Artwork for Phil Niblock – BestiaIRE (2020).
Banner Image: Taken from paintings by Nicole Guerrera, “False Color 2” (2017, cover), for Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call collaboration album ‘P:R:I:S:M’ released in 2023.

VERGE #80 - Asymmetrical Living

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1. Kevin Richard Martin – Sub Zero (2022) – Destroyed – start
2. The Black Dog – My Brutal Life (2023) – Asymmetrical Living – 04:55
3. Murcof – The Alias Sessions (2021) – Shadow Surfing – 07:47
4. Leaders of Technology – Don’t Worry, All You Need Is The Warm Embrace Of Electro-Help (2024) – 15:38
5. Experimental Audio Research – The Köner Experiment (2003) – Three – 16:58
6. Civilistjävel! – Br​ö​df​ö​da (2024) – VII – 21:48
7. Actress – Statik (2024) – System Verse – 26:55
8. KRM & KMRU – Disconnect (2024) – Differ – 30:40
9. Claudio Rocchetti – Labirinto Verticale (2023) – Questa Debole Forza – 35:10
10. Low End Activist – Municipal Dreams (2024) – Climbing the Walls – 37:55
11. Chris Abrahams – Memory Night (2013) – Leafer – 41:22
12. GAS – RAUSCH (2018) – RAUSCH 2 – 48:10
13. Carmen Villain – Music From The Living Monument (2023) – Silver – 57:40
14. Thomas Köner – La Barca Complete Edition (2014) – Tokyo Hour One – 01:06:25
15. LEYA, Actress – Eyeline (2022) – Dankworld – Actress Remix – 01:12:25
16. Seefeel – Succour (Redux) (1995) – Monastic – 01:21:00
17. Multicast Dynamics – Lost World (2018) – Arrival – 01:27:05
18. Stars Of The Lid – Music for Nitrous Oxide (1995) – The Swellsong – 01:30:50
19. The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time (2016) – A3 – Late Afternoon Drifting – 01:39:45

Mix Cover: Artwork for Civilistjävel! – Br​ö​df​ö​da (2024).
Banner Image: Image courtesy of Thomas Köner (Topografia Del Vuoto).

VERGE #79 - Spawning The Nephilim

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1. FLOATING – Hesitating Lights (2025) – Cough Choir – start
2. Vreid – Pitch Black Brigade (2006) – The Red Smell – 04:10
3. Lord Mantis – Spawning The Nephilim (2009) – Spawning The Nephilim – 08:49
4. Ultha – Converging Sins (2016) – You Will Learn About Loss – 13:47
5. Fister – Gemini (2013) – Gemini – 28:12
6. Laster – Het Wassen Oog (2019) – Haat & Bonhomie – 33:38
7. CELESTE – Assassine(s) (2021) – (A) – 39:10
8. This Gift Is A Curse – Heir (2025) – Cosmic Voice – 43:36
9. Urfaust – Empty Space Meditation (2016) – Meditatum II – 50:05

Mix Cover: Artwork for FLOATING album Hesitating Lights released in July 2025 on Transcendent Obscurity.
Banner Image: Still taken from Laster’s China 2019 official tour video.

VERGE #78 - Kiss The Blood Off My Hands

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1. Coen Oscar Polack – A Concrete Pasture (2023) – Cuore Nero – start
2. Faust – Momentaufnahme II (2023) – Lampe An, Tür Zu, Leute Rein! – 05:33
3. Chaz Knapp & Mariel Roberts – Setting Fire to These Dark Times (2023) – Avoiding Sprinklers in Richardson, TX – 11:25
4. Dead Voices On Air & Snowbeasts – :snowbeasts: dead voices on air: (2025) – The Stone of Pride – 16:40
5. Maya Shenfeld – Under the Sun (2024) – Light, Refracted – 23:55
6. Maria W Horn – PANOPTIKON (2024) – Panoptikon – 26:32
7. Romance – Love Is Colder Than Death (2025) – Kiss The Blood Off My Hands – 32:18
8. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together (2020) – Apart – 36:45
9. Secret Pyramid – Two Shadows Collide (2017) – Possession – 50:05
10. Clark – Clarence Park (2001) – Fossil – 54:00
11. Abul Mogard – Quiet Pieces (2025) – In a Studded Procession – 56:00
12. Fennesz – Mosaic (2024) – A Man Outside – 01:03:27
13. GAS – Zauberberg (1997) – 7 – 01:09:24
14. Kristof Hahn – Six Pieces (2021) – Cape Horn – 01:20:35
15. Blakmoth – The Hissing Silence (2023) – Whispered The Ether – 01:26:49
16. Sigur Rós – Sigur Rós Presents Liminal Sleep (2019) – Sleep 8 – 01:33:25
17. Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis – Deep Listening (1989) – Suiren – 01:48:50

Mix Cover: Artwork for Blakmoth – The Hissing Silence (2023).
Main Image: Monastery of Salzedas, Portugal. May 2025.

VERGE #77 - Hegemonic

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1. Divide And Dissolve – Insatiable (2025) – Hegemonic – start
2. Locusts and Honey – Teach Me To Live that I Dread The grave as little as My Bed (2024) – Confraternities of the Cord – 02:28
3. Monarch! – Never Forever (2017) – Song to the Void – 06:30
4. Circuit des Yeux – Halo On The Inside (2025) – Anthem of Me – 12:01
5. Seirom – 1973 (2012) – Change – 16:32
6. Fvnerals – Let the Earth be Silent (2023) – Annihilation – 20:30
7. Nadja – Nalepa (2022) – Funkspiel Part One – 25:00
8. Deutsch Nepal – Staring at My Wall (2019) – To Mother – 33:23
9. Terra Tenebrosa – V.I.T.R.I.O.L. – Purging The Tunnels (2014) – Draining The Well (edit) – 42:39
10. Ashtoreth – Cycles II (Cyclic Law’s 20th Anniversary Label Sampler 2022) – Emic – 48:47
11. ALLSEITS – Hel (2009) – Hel – 56:42

Mix Cover: Artwork for Seirom release “1973”.
Banner Image: Haley Fohr aka Circuit Des Yeux.

VERGE #76 - Accept The Whole Ensemble

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1. Hyperrêve & CoH – Demain Encore (2025) – Tout Noir – start
2. Shida Shahabi – Living Circle (2023) – Deep Violet of Gold – 02:07
3. Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography: Reworks (2025) – Secretely Wishing For Rain (William Basinski, Gary Thomas Wright rework) – 11:20
4. zakè & Z.D. Frizzell – Caelum (Excerpts) (2025) – Caelum, No. I – 18:47
5. Hotel Neon – Remnants (2016) – Remnants – 23:22
6. Mike Lazarev – Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals (2025) – Saturated Signals – 33:52
7. Başak Günak & Ah! Kosmos – Rewilding (2024) – Rewilding – 40:20
8. Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007) – Tippy’s Demise – 42:25
9. Valgeir Sigurðsson – Architecture of Loss (2012) – Guard Down – 50:15
10. Quiet Places – Quiet Places, Vol. 1 (2020) – QP-07.02 – 52:25
11. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Barco (2022) – 59:03
12. Six Missing – Without Mind (2025) – Accept The Whole Ensemble – 01:03:02
13. Lawrence English, Dean Hurley, Vanessa Tomlinson, Stephen Vitiello, Jim O’Rourke – Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds (2025) – ETHKIBVI – 01:05:20
14. Joachim Spieth, zakè, Markus Guentner – Arcadia (2025) – Luster – 01:08:30
15. Rolando Simmons – Sequencers at Night (2025) – Coast Magick – 01:04:02
16. An-Ting – The Shore 海岸 (Sheringham) (2025) – The Shore 海岸 (Sheringham) – 01:16:51
17. Bvdub – Tears on Deaf Eyes (IV) (2025) – Tears on Deaf Eyes (IV) – 01:20:42
18. Matt Jencik – Dream Character (2019) – Lifeless Body Train Ride – 01:25:08
19. Loscil – Lake Fire (2025) – Ash Clouds – 01:28:20
20. Pinkcourtesyphone – Arise in Sinking Feelings (2024) – notes on vacuuming – 01:34:46
21. Tim Hecker – Shards (2025) – Heaven Will Come – 01:40:35
22. Max Corbacho – The Delicate Essence of Solitude (2024) – The Intangible Essence – 01:45:15

Duration: 2h 7m 49s

Mix Cover: Artwork for Başak Günak & Ah! Kosmos – Rewilding (2024).
Banner Image: Main Image: Pinkcourtesyphone visual.

VERGE #75 - Guest Mix by Void (Non Serviam / Hiverlucide)

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1. Necromass – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes (2024) – Ex Sarcophago, Ataraxia Cano – start
2. The Angelic Process – Coma Waering (2012) – Crippled Healing – 06:56
3. Overmars – Affliction, Endocrine… Vertigo (2005) – A Spermwhale’s Quest – 13:47
4. Nasum – Human 2.0 (2000) – Resistance – 19:37
5. Dystopia – Human = Garbage (1994) – Sanctity – 22:03
6. Coalesce – 012: Revolution in Just Listening (1999) – Cowards.com- 28:08
7. Ampere – The First Five Years (2014) – Escapism – 30:33
8. From Ashes Rise – Life and Death (1999) – Seeping – 32:05
9. Takaru – Split w/ A Light In The Attic – Torrent Reigns – 33:20
10. Hiretsukan – End States (2005) – 19 Year Barrier – 34:20
11. Today Is The Day – In the Eyes of God (1999) – Mayari – 36:15
12. Gigantic Brain – Gigantic Brain (2016) – The Super Cat – 39:37
13. Emperor – Emperor (1993) – Cosmic Keys To My Creations – 42:03
14. Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Sect(s) (2011) – Epitome II – 48:07
15. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (1971) – Avalanche – 54:48
16. Simon Finn – Pass the Distance (1971) – Jerusalem – 59:49
17. Thee Silver Mt. Zion – Horses In The Sky (2005) – God Bless Our Dead Marines – 01:06:26
18. Necromass – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes (2024) – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes – 01:17:59

Mix Cover: Non Serviam visual.
Banner Image: Hiverlucide.

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Established in 2025, the Verge aims to translate our combined conceptual visions and production values into timeless signature fashion products, which will endure needless fads, while embracing the path to minimise the devastating effects fashion has on our planet.

Devised to Resonate. Noise is Resistance.

Devised to Resonate. Noise is Resistance.

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