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Transmitting secret frequencies from the heart of Florence. the truth / forty-eight thousand times a second

27/09/2026

“I’ll buzz you up to my hall of mirrors…”

Somewhere in a city far away, there’s a party going on in a high-rise penthouse. Part Hotel California, part American Psycho, it’s a time bounce of the same night, every night. Nobody leaves, but more arrive.

My own home is a house of wrong
And this has all gone on so very long
I’d give it all for some peace and sleep
Instead among these creatures I crept and I creep

Jane, Purdey, Steve-o, Laurie. The beautiful and the ruined, all watching the clock for The Boy.

At the centre of it is Lillit Vega. Her “The Great CollideHer” was DarkArc 001, the first record The Datura Tapes ever put out. Then came “Holiday”, DarkArc 012. Then silence. MirrorMirrors is her roaring back, as only she can.

She sang it in one take against bare drums, while darkStylus built the storm around her on Lush 2 by : eight SH-101s bolted into one machine. Together they made a track Lillit describes as “like a techno radio station in the Armenia of my youth, put through a hundred distortion pedals.”

Brutal. Then Tapes chief Mujiki delivered the final blow, pushing the VU meters into the red so hard she nearly bent the needles. “After all,” she said, “more is more.”

built the house itself: the artwork, the photos and the film. Out of that world came a one-of-one artefact, specchio, a kimono made of broken mirrors. It will live in the Wunderkammer, the pop museum at the fugacefugace shop.

So drop by and check out this killer new track. But watch what happens if you stay too long. This is not an exit.

You are… invited. Who are you bringing to the party? Tell us in the comments

MirrorMirrors · DarkArc 017 · out now on SoundCloud. Link in bio.

https://soundcloud.com/the-datura-tapes/mirrormirrors/s-xp6epw9gZJS?si=06106a52c2104a3fa3839793e458c159&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Lillit Vega: vocals, lyrics, co-production
darkStylus: programming, arrangement, vocal textures
Artwork, photos, film and specchio: Rei Zarhane
Mastered and curated by Mujiki for the NxN Collective

06/09/2026

"Crossroads" is out now — Etta Vale, DarkArc 016, The Datura Tapes.

Years after Etta wrote the gospel original for Kathleen — the diner girl from Dom Salmon's novel Walker Awake, all endless gum and a mean right hook — she came back to that same devotion and stripped it to almost nothing. One mic, one take, built up afterward by darkStylus into plate reverb, violin, and a valve-compressed hush that answers the original's big orchestration with silence instead.

Alongside the track: two one-of-one pieces from fugacefugace, pulled straight from the pages of Walker Awake — Viaggio, a valise built from the song's single-suitcase line, and Bivio ("crossroads," in Italian), a slashed trench splattered in red. Not limited edition. One of one, permanently.

Check out Etta on our Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/ml4tJL0d2o1SYz64VH

No hype cycle. No algorithm chase.

26/08/2026

There once was a girl in Bucovina…

The Datura Tapes came home for this one. We hooked up with our alma mater as the NxN Collective starts to cross pollinate its creativity in the heart of Florence.

For the redesigned prologue reveal of The Datura Press title Narcisa Before Narcisa, our in house sorceress Ronja, built "DarkNightRite" — an eerie glitch-witch score, made to sit inside the witches, the giant wolves, and the occult imagery Rei and the atelier redesigned the prologue around.

As ever, the truth, forty-eight thousand times a second — this one just happens to be a haunting.

It's the first title live on the Press' digital flipbook site.

Together, NxN, are building new visuals, audio, movies and more.

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/5f194cb188.html

17/07/2026

"Come you rich, hear a story poor. From our pockets you'll take no more."

Amarah is back on The Tapes, and she’s brought a match with your name on it with the incendiary WE GASOLINE.

A dub-punk riot, it's a high-wire lyrical sermon over a brutal, red-lined stepper beat cooked up by darkStylus.

A siren call to join a revolution against those robber-barons of your pasts, presents and futures, because…

"All along, deep down, you knew you’d see this scene.
When you take everything from people, you make them gasoline."

🔗 Out now on SoundCloud.
https://on.soundcloud.com/hdMtWgd6A7pHTJszpq

13/07/2026

Meet the makers behind Ronja's terrifying new track for The Tapes 'No Cover No'

Interview article up on our Substack now

https://thedaturatapes.substack.com/p/im-so-cold-here-at-your-window?r=8ith6d

12/07/2026

"My once lover, you'll discover, my revenge is like no other…"

What happens when you sink a betrayal into bottomless moonlit water?

It comes back from the black for revenge.

On Soundcloud now. Ronja pulls an ancient Scandinavian ghost story up from the deep and drags it straight into the modern circuitry of The Datura Tapes.

"No Cover No" is Scandi-noir stripped of its sleekness and re-engineered as an intimate, terrifying act of vengeance. Driven by a commanding feminine contralto, dissonant microtonal choral pads, and a suffocating acid-bass growl, Ronja's new track is an insatiable shadow.

You can't escape her, there is only the freezing weight of the lake.

Recorded on The Datura Tapes.
"The Truth, forty-eight thousand times a second."
— Mujiki

Audio Engineering: darkStylus / TDT
Visual Direction & Costume Design: Rei Zarhane (FugaceFugace)
Curation: Mujiki Stream the spell via the link in bio.

https://on.soundcloud.com/08d6nH7GdwR3etknBh

15/06/2026

Phew, we have arrived at our new home. The tea chests are still packed but we've set up the mics, mixer and the magnetic tape is rolling.

As you may have noticed The Datura Tapes has its own website now
https://www.thedaturatapes.audio/

Check it out for tracks, artists, artefacts and the DarkArc Studio, vault here in Florence

Also studio chief and head cat herder Mujiki has opened up The Tapes' Substack fanzine tranceasmission

Here she's rocking the 'Zeppelin' coat by sister atelier

https://substack.com/

Come see The Truth, forty eight thousand times a second.

Baci, Mujiki ###

14/06/2026

Catch us if you can.

We’ve been quiet. Not because the tape stopped rolling, but because we were rebuilding the studio foundation from the concrete up.

https://www.thedaturatapes.audio/

Welcome to the new digital home of The Datura Tapes—now fully unified as a creative trinity with Datura Press, and under the global NxN () umbrella. Built to house the sound, the text, and the physical artefacts exactly how we intended. No algorithms, no corporate noise.

Following on from Lillit Vega's Palermo Promo, darkStylus has taken the master stems of Amarah’s first release for us "Y'Catch On T'Me" and dragged them down into the cellar. The Sly Stepper Mix dials the tempo back into a sultry, suffocating menace—thick sub-bass, fractured syncopation, and a groove that feels like driving thru the Kingston backroads in the tarmac scorching noonday heat.

The visual identity for this transmission comes straight from the boards at FugaceFugace. Rei Zamane designed and executed the bespoke 'Quadrillah' coat and structured suit worn by Amarah in the archival portrait—a sharp, tactile silhouette engineered to match the heavy geometry of the audio.

Transmission [DarkArc-014] is officially live on SoundCloud.
https://on.soundcloud.com/iWTTvlE9HdmPcxkBTe

The archive is open. Hit the link in our bio to dig through the new frontline: interviews, uncompressed tracks, text fragments, and physicalities.

— Mujiki

10/06/2026

The Datura Tapes are rolling.

For the longest time, this archive lived in the margins—frantic GroupMe chats, bleeding eardrums in crowded coffee bars, late-night master sessions under duvets, and crashing on the digital sofa of our sister house, . We were just throwing frequencies into the dark, hoping someone would tune into the signal.

Consider www.thedaturatapes.audio our digital eviction notice from that era.

We finally have our own architecture. More space for the artists, the unedited tracks, the midnight mixes, and the deep vaults of the DarkArc Catalogue. It’s the central mix-desk connecting us directly to Hana’s crew at in NY and the visual masterminds at right here in Florence.

To mark the new frequency, we’re collaborating across the trinity on a series of physical and digital drops that blur the line between text, garment, and sound.

We had to start with Lillit Vega—the voice that initiated the archive with killer track, The Great CollideHer. She’s wearing FugaceFugace’s 'Palermo' suit inspired by her home town, captured in the violet shadows of the city ahead of her new single, 'Holiday'.

Explore the vault. And if you’re 'a Firenze', find your way to DarkArc Studios.

The Truth. Forty-Eight Thousand Times A Second.

— M.

06/05/2026

Acoustic fragility meets cinematic shadow. "Before I Turned Into A Tree" is streaming from the DarkArc. 🕯️🎙️

Etta Vale's new track, the haunting poem of loss and grief and a great 'what if' in her life is out now.

Coat, new Darcansas felt coat from sisters FugaceFugace

Now on soundcloud…
https://on.soundcloud.com/NuSGzHtEYieSaU1Y3R

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