Brussels-based Adriaan de Roover has spent more than a decade working in the folds of experimental electronic music, releasing on labels such as [PIAS], Consouling, and Fog Mountain. His practice moves between music production, installation work, and composing scores, including recent projects for a fashion exhibition and a 4DSOUND work co-produced by STUK Leuven and MONOM.

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dudal is the project of Pieter Dudal, a Ghent-based sound artist and musician. As founder and curator of the labels Dauw and blickwinkel, he moves between lo-fi melody, slowly evolving textures, and delicate electro-acoustic structures. His debut album Can You Say It Again appeared in 2021, and he hosts a monthly show on Brussels’ Kiosk Radio.

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The duo’s album lands on VIERNULVIER Records, a label focused on music that is unafraid to go against the grain. As the in-house imprint of Ghent’s VIERNULVIER Arts Centre, it brings together local and international artists whose work often intersects with visual art or performance. Process, risk, and material experimentation sit at its core, making it a fitting home for a project built on the small details of tape, time, and hands-on craft.

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dudal & de Roover’s upcoming release, pivot rotations, captures two years of tape loop explorations between 2021 and 2022, weaving together fragments from live performances in Ghent, Brussels, and Eupen’s Meakusma Festival. Recorded live and later assembled as a continuous sound collage, each piece carries the grain of its making - worn tape, sun-bleached grit, accidental bleed from older recordings, and the creaking bodies of ageing machines with slightly unstable motors. Instead of smoothing these out, the duo treat them as part of the material, letting imperfections guide the shape of the music.

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Minimal Collective shines a light on the mind-wander-inducing track c. Listening to it recalls what Dutch writer Leonhard Huizinga once said about Javanese gamelan, an early influence on what we now call ambient music: ‘This music does not create a song for our ears; it is a state, like moonlight poured over the fields’. What distinguishes c is its expansive drone and the way it unfolds in a fluid, non-linear manner. Across thirteen minutes, it remains absorbing yet gentle on the ear, showing how ambient music can hold attention without demanding it. It opens a spacious place to think.

Full tracklist

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1. a

2. ab

3. b

4. bc 

5. c

6. cd

7. d

8. e

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pivot rotations will be out on November 21st, 2025. Pre-order a copy via Bandcamp.