Squats do not generally come with electricity, which is a problem if you want to make electronic music in one. Kirril Schreiber worked around it by building in fragments: short loops, quick sketches, pieces meant to be used live rather than laboured over.

The equipment was second-hand and often simply found, old nineties computers, cassette decks, battered pianos and broken mixers pulled out of squatted buildings or off the side of the road.

Two decades on, the catalogue runs deep. A self-titled album landed on Tartarus Records in 2021, and 01/23 - 07/23 followed on Owlripper Recordings in 2023. Sound design for film and theatre and mix engineering for bands sit alongside all of it.

Session 1 gathers an hour of his own productions from across various labels, with a few collaborations folded in. There are two further sessions behind it, and both are worth your time.

The first session sits at just under an hour. Predominantly, it features tracks that Kirril let loose via Revok, although in the session you’ll also find a whole bunch of self released tackle, and even his remix of Acid Replika’s Meltdown makes an appearance, too.

If you have heard Kirril’s output before, then you will know what to expect here. Dark, distorted, industrial sonix being the order of the day. It is not a comfortable listen by any stretch of the imagination, but then this sort of bone-grinding electronic experimentation isn’t meant to be.

That doesn’t make it any less visceral, though. The whole session heaves like some sort of mutated bionic organism. Yes, this is machine music, but it has so much life to it that you can almost feel its breath on the back of your neck.

There is little need to sit and review each track as it lands in the session, given the fact that these tracks are already available elsewhere. Just know that combined into a singular session, this is a journey, and one we wholeheartedly encourage you to take.

This is the sort of mix/session that rewards the patient listener who gives it the full hour. We’ve picked up all three and plan to listen to them back to back for the full experience. Given that Kirril is only asking for a single Euro (or more; pay a bit extra if you can), this is definitely worth a trip to Bandcamp for.

All three sessions are waiting there now; go and grip ‘em.