2026
** Through Global Frequency (remastered) to be released on vinyl LP by 12th Isle.
(expected by the end of January, pre-order here)
Watch AV Live Set 2024 - 2025 full mix online.
2025
** December 5: a collaboration with Torii Wolf – wax on the sink (single)
** Music for No Man's Air, a film by Gerco de Ruijter & Peter Delpeut, more TBA soon.
** Vistas, a bandcamp playlist.
** Urban Scapes rework: a new submission to the Disquiet Junto.
** Limited edition tape now available on Metalabel.
** Sold out European premiere of 'YYDC Somewhere' at the Oriente Occidente Festival (9-5-25).
** Through Global Frequency - Aunt Nadira in Cameroni's new mix for Radio alHara.
** Nature's Voice added by the great Meitei / 冥丁 to his playlist Jul. 2025.
** New signing with Pingipung, for a second album with Pierre Bastien: Nuits Sans Nuit - Out 30-05-25.
** First publication on Metalabel: Through Global Frequency - Out 27-05-2025
** Memories Of The Forest (Zoosemiotics Rework) released on Resonance: 10 Years Of Vibrational Sounds From The Heart Of Invisible Inc (a 2LP vinyl compilation) invisible-inc.bandcamp - Out 20-05-25.
** Music for Presenting Rage, a choreography by Camryn Stafford, premiere at Gibney Dance 05-16-25.
** Bandcamp AV film: one-time live stream; RSVP - 30-04-25.
** Intifada Records Vol. 1: Beirut fundraiser, 33 artists (e.g. Bogdan Raczynski, RAMZi, Observable Hues, Howie B, etc) Out 29-04-25.
** Your Words Against Mine [Uncloud Remix] - Out 20-04-25.
** Video by Ines Kooli: watch on YouTube.
** All revenue for downloads of Singles 2020 - 2022 (compilation) will go to Earth Percent, starting April 2025.
** Aphex Twin [mostly mellow] for Supreme: surprised and very honored to discover that 'Little Star' has been added to Aphex Twin's playlist for Supreme ;)
** Slow Dance (with Pierre Bastien) licensed to Are We Good?, a documentary film by Steven Feinartz about Marc Maron.
** The People United (track with Lucille Cornelius) added by Stefan Christoff to Palestine At The Heart Of It All, a mix for Radio AlHara.
** Mini tour in February (Geneva, Lyon, Basel, Tenay, Turin); more info on live page.
** A Looming Presence in FBI Radio's Utility Fog - Best Of 2024. (by Peter Hollo).
** Unspeakable Visions in Phonica Records - Best of 2024. (by JD Twitch).
** Compilation: The Tangled Hours, out now (DL only).
** Project: Hoe weet je wat je weet? (scoring films for Steven Elbers & DJ set)
2024
** Interview with Kems Kriol for Operator Radio 12-12-24
** Knekelhuis hosts an evening at Garage Noord 28-11-24
** Start residency with Ines Kooli for Uncloud 2024.
** Mix for Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, September 18th.
** Viva Voce featured in The Wire Mag's 'Adventures In Sound And Music' by Meg Woof for Resonance FM.
** Echo Transformations featured in BBC's Music for the Darkling Hour by Hannah Peel.
** AI Brainfire & So Far Yet So Near played by GK Machine for Pingipung / Kiosk Radio and Buena Vida.
** Where Old Meets New featured in a new Free City Radio mix Global Solidarity by Stefan Christoff for Radio Alhara.
** De Concertzender bestaat 40 jaar: voor dit jubileum korte optredens in Zaal 100 van Michel Banabila, Romke Kleefstra, Polar Twins, Paul Glazier, German Popov aka OMFO, Vanity Project en Luka Schuurman.
** Recording with Lucille Cornelius for Diem25 NL: The People United (free download).
** Film project 2024 with students from Lucerne University for scoring Nomis Award videos. (Gropper Film).
** Mix for Kiosk Radio (Outsiders series).
** My second album for Knekelhuis, Unspeakable Visions out now on bandcamp.
** Buy your TICKETS for YYDC Somewhere - New York Live Arts here.
** New set on soundcloud: May 2024 Mix.
** Just in: new Knekelhuis LP (out 6-19-24).
** Music for Duality by Artius Dance Theatre (24, 25, 26, 27 may 2024)
** Spider, Spit and Broken Bells in Just Above The Surface by YYDC, now with Oregon Ballet.
** Coming up in june: Yin Yue Dance (commissioned score for Somewhere) premiere at New York Live Arts.
** Sixth collaboration with Machinefabriek, out now on bandcamp: A Looming Presence.
** The Unreal Realm: limited edition CD of 100 copies.
** Two tracks featured (i.a. with Mehmet Polat) in a Free City Radio mix Open Eyes For Gaza by Stefan Christoff for Radio Alhara.
** Now in theatre: Timeless Tide (YYDC)
** New set on soundcloud: March 2024 Mix.
** Coming soon (April 5th), a hand-numbered ltd CD: The Unreal Realm (edition of 100).
** Single with Cengiz Arslanpay, now on bandcamp: Stop The Genocide! End The Occupation
** Muziek voor Hard Cut Paradise, première 2 maart in Theater Rotterdam.
** Listen to Diagonals Feiner Musiksalon German radio broadcast (ORF) special on Baba Soirée (scroll to 101:15):
** Pingipung mix streaming on soundcloud:
2023
** Out now: Babaa Soirée
** Stray Carrier Pigeon with Pierre Bastien streaming now on bandcamp & soundcloud.
** Pingipung single Slow Dance with Pierre Bastien:, watch video on YouTube.
** SIgned with Pingipung for upcoming vinyl LP: Baba Soirée with Pierre Bastien: order here.
** Signed with YYDC for scoring two upcoming choreographies by Yin Yue with BalletMet and for New York Live Arts.
** Film project 2023 with students from Lucerne University for scoring Nomis Award videos. (Gropper Film).
** A 60 minutes new film to be premiered at the 25th international multimedia presentations- Ambient Festival Gorlice
with a live music performance. (7-7-23)
** Night Eyes, an EP with Dave Liebman, out now on bandcamp.
** Guest mix for Mitamine Lab on Resonance Extra: Episode 49.
** Breathe: 10 track compilation, exclusive on Bandcamp & Apple Music (04/28/23).
** Music for Artemis, a new upcoming film by Martijn Veldhoen.
** Tightrope (limited edition CD) now shipping.
** Observatory II - Sax Version: single with Mete Erker.
** Solénoïde - Mission 226.
** Mix for Mitamine Lab.
** Interview for Disquiet Junto Profiles.
** Video by Jeff Greinke for Dust To The Sky.
** Knekelhuis - Oddity Influence mix & short interview for Oddity Radio
** Tightrope, an 8 track album featuring Jeff Greinke, Oene van Geel and Maarten Vos.
** Moshimoss Earth Visitor rework (single) February 27th.
** Guest mix for Patterns Radio.
** Hidden Patterns, hand numbered limited edition compilation CD.
** FRAMED (Conny Janssen Danst) with music by Michel Banabila, Oene van Geel, A Winged Victory For The Sullen and others, in the theaters in 2023.
** 1 minute track contribution for '+' by Rutger Zuydervelt (February 17th, 2023)
2022
** New collaboration with Pierre Bastien: BanBas Aura (single) - listen on bandcamp.
** On Substack: This Week In Sound - win a free Uprooted CD
** Repress of Echo Transformations - shipping around October 18th.
** September 27th: joining global launch #MusiciansForPalestine
(artwork by Susanna Gonzo)
** New podcast: September 2022 Mix.
** Flow State interview + playlist.
** Second pressing (hand numbered limited edition, CD in wallet) of Uprooted (2019).
** Limited edition CD: Singles (2020-2022), compilation in digipak.
** Contour 2022 - Gerco de Ruijter & Michel Banabila on vimeo.
** Echo Transformations in HHV top 50 list for 2022.
** More Research From The Same Dept. cassette tape version.
** One Moment In Time cassette tape version.
** Winter Sketches cassette tape version.
** Third collaboration with Stijn Hüwels & Cok van Vuuren: Massive.
** Single: Sounds From An Unforgettable Place.
** Spider, Spit & Broken Bells licensed to SF Danceworks.
** Camera - single with Olaf Keus.
** Guerilla Tactics licensed to WMU Dance.
** EP: Monochromes.
** Opening Kunstenlab 2 mei om 17:00 - installatie van Teodora Ionescu met muziek van Nobuka & Michel Banabila (via EscRec)
** New collaboration with Cengiz Arslanpay & Oene van Geel: Waking Memory.
** HOME - Conny Janssen Danst, the film edition, now streaming online until May 7, 2022.
** Little Ox awarded as best animation at Music and Cinema Marseille.
** Bandcamp fundraiser: #StandWithUkraine.
** Listen to: Orbital Resonance.
2021
** Mix for Hamon Radio.
** Echo Transformations at Drums & Chants
** R.I.P. Hannes Vennik (1959 - 2021)
(photo credit: Jacky van Dijk)
** New signing with Knekelhuis: vinyl LP + DL: December 13, 2021 - Echo Transformations.
** Echo Transformations VPRO Luisterpaal.
** Video for Echo Transformations by Keziah Philipps.
** Interview with Knekelhuis.
** Conny Janssen Danst HOME (2021/22 remake) Maarten Vos live cello & electronics / soundscape by Michel Banabila.
** Listen on bandcamp: Still, by Maarten Vos & Michel Banabila: cello & sine tones.
** Volkskrant podcast serie: Een Soort God, van Simone Eleveld & Anneke Stoffelen (muziek: Rutger Zuydervelt & Michel Banabila / sound design: Mona de Brauwer).
** Out now (vinyl & DL) on EscRec: Reiko by nobuka, with contributions by Machinefabriek, Michel Banabila & Marina Tadic.
** Drowning Angels; listen on soundcloud.
** New collaboration with Pierre Bastien: Ancestors Mix.
** Burgeon, recordings with Ümlaut & Salar Asid.
** Descending The Mountain - soundtrack now on Spotify
** E.T (Extra Terre Version) performed by Gaspar Claus, (cello) available on vinyl and cd (Tancade).
** Muziek voor VPRO Tegenlicht.
**Sound design for Camera Arts (2 NOMIS videos).
** A video for E.T. by David Kleijwegt, on Knekelhuis' Youtube channel.
** Alienation - single on bandcamp.
** Remastered version of 'E.T.' on Knekelhuis compilation 'And Felt Like...' (vinyl LP).
** Spider, Spit and Broken Bells in a choreography by Yin Yue Dance, originally made for WMU, streaming in Threshold via Peridance Center, June 27th.
** Recording with Jeff Greinke: Latitude and Longitude.
** Recording with Cengiz Arslanpay: Yek Nefes.
** A guitar version of 'You Little Wonder' by Italian guitarist Sergio Sorrentino.
** A video for Secunde Reprise by David Kleijwegt, now on Bureau B's Youtube channel
** Framed, Conny Janssen Danst - watch it now online (April 1 - May 30, 2021), tickets: here.
** New signing with Bureau B: 'Wah-Wah Whispers' (full length compilation album - vinyl / CD / download).
** Limited cassette edition of Red Tape Sessions (100 copies) by Staalplaat: now available at bandcamp
** Interview met Co de Kloet over Wah-Wah Whispers bij Co Live!
** Music for Descending The Mountain, a film by Maartje Nevejan.
** Music for Little Ox, a short animation by Patrick Vandebroeck & Raf Wathion.
** Watch a new video for Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Guernica (excerpt - recreation 2021) on Jump Cuts with Le Jeune Ballet du CNSMD.
** Kroky, a track with Maryana Golovchenko & Oene van Geel, now available on Oene's new album at Zennes Records.
** Second collaboration with Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren: Across The Sky
** EP: The Three Stages of Endurance
** Music in Framed, a new show by Conny Janssen Danst.
** Conny Janssen Danst Live @ VPRO Mondo (music: Eyes of the Witness)
2020
** Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium: Cahier 2, download (PDF) - video sketch by Steven Elbers / music by Michel Banabila.
** Collaboration with Robert Jarvis (trombone): An Agreement Of Sorts (single).
** A track with Machinefabriek, 'Cassina', is part of a compilation (Ambient Layers), out on 7K! Records - December 4th, 2020.
Other artists on the compilation include Adam Wiltzie, Herdis Stefánsdóttir, Robert Lippok, Rutger Hoedemaekers, Lisa Morgenstern, and many more.
** Translations, featuring piano versions by Jeroen van Vliet, and more.
** Commissioned soundtrack for the exhibition Dreaming In Everywhen at the IMPAKT Festival (October 28th till November 1st, 2020)
** Oblong Hobnob: on bandcamp (October 13, 2020)
** To Yemen With Love: Concertzender special by Cobie Ivens.
** With Gareth Davis: States of Consciousness.
** Lithium by Alex Haas, including The Woods & The Sun Comes Out, featuring Michel Banabila & Bill Laswell
** Listen Zoosemiotics on Bandcamp.
** Scripts of the Lagoon, commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut (start of Exploratorium 2020 project).
** Various Artists compilation (35 tracks) bandcamp exclusive 'To Yemen With Love'.
** Muziek voor NTR doc over Ernst Happel van David Kleijwegt.
** Asambe Ekhaya (ZuluBlue) 2013 single with Philisiwe Twijnstra, (now remastered) on Spotify.
** Limited edition CD's for All Connected & Live 2015.
** A Trace Of Inevitability by Yin Yue / Dragonfly II, available June 22 – 29 online at Front Row Festival, Pennsylvania Ballet.
** Kroky - recording with Oene van Geel & Maryana Golovchenko on soundcloud.
** Third collaboration with Scanner online: The Spaces You Hold.
** Red Tape Sessions 2016 - 2020 - with Jacobus Derwort & Hanyo van Oosterom (download / cassette).
** All Connected - 14 track album out now (download / all portals)
** In Other Words (Radbound & Bilaa Mix) in Annabelle Lope Ochoa's 'Shibuya Blues' by Tulsa Ballet (streaming May 1)
** One Moment In Time, a collaboration with Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren.
** Always There (single / download) on bandcamp.
** Due to new governmental regulations concerning Covid-19, Krackle #2 - Worm, is cancelled.
** Spherics III (EP / download).
** Secunde ambient remix.
** Spider, Spit and Broken Bells licensed to WMU.
** Submission to the Disquiet Junto: 'Disquiet 0419 - Dischoir': Junto Voices.
** Second mix for LYL Radio, January 10th.
** Movements, music for dance (2LP vinyl album / 2020) via Norman Records and Squidco.
2019
** The Ripple Effect with Gareth Davis on USG sampler (compilation CD / 2019).
** Banabila & Machinefabriek track for Eilean 100: Sasquatch (compilation CD / 2019).
** Winter Sketches ---> bandcamp.
** New recording (single): 'The Woods' with Alex Haas & Bill Laswell, now on Spotify.
** Ballet score commission from Patrick O' Brian Dance collective, world premiere New York, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, November 14th, 2019.
** Ballet score commission from Yin Yue Dance for the Philadelphia Ballet, world premiere Philadelphia, Merriam Theater, November 7th, 2019.
** A Sense Of Place (Nan Wang / 2019) op het Nederlands Film Festival.
** Submission to Disquiet Junto: Malka Older - The Divided, part 7/9 - Junto #400.
** A Sense Of Place (Nan Wang / 2019) bij Pleinbioscoop 17 Augustus 2019.
** Mix for Dublab.de in Laura Not's "Sounds Unsaid" Wednesday 21:00 - 22:00, August 7, 2019.
** An interview with Mike Lazarev for Headphone Commute's "in the studio" series.
** Muziek voor 'Helden Van Het Máxima', docu van Paul Rigter (Avro Tros TV).
** Video by Nan Wang for Breaking Point.
** Mix for The Something Something at RedLight Radio.
** Five download codes for the (digital) version of Uprooted to give away to Ambientblog readers.
** The Uprooted Orchestra - disquiet.com - by Marc Weidenbaum.
** Uprooted, featuring Gareth Davis, Oene van Geel, Gulli Gudmundsson, Alex Haas, Peter Hollo & Stijn Hüwels.
** Eric Giessmann's Sand Wanderer is vimeo's staff pick.
*8 In Other Words (Radbound & Bilaa Mix) in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's 'Shibuya Blues' by Tulsa Ballet.
** Pol Derlicht Variscoop 2.3: with Gerco de Ruijter & Nan Wang films.
** And We Fall And We Murmur And We Sing; Martin Hoogeboom collaboration project, now on bandcamp.
** R.I.P Jacobus Derwort (1952 - 2019).
(photo credit: Camille Blake)
** Ambientblog Exclusive 'Sounds for Dissolve' (music for Gerco de Ruijter's 's installation): Bandcamp.
** Pareidolia (Nan Wang) on IFFR 2019.
** Banabila & Machinefabriek 5 - Entropia (Eilean Rec).
2018
** Texture Syndicate - Michel Banabila & Willem Cramer.
** A Sense Of Place: video by Nan Wang.
** Extended version Stop Motion: music for videos by Gerco de Ruijter.
** Imprints recordings.
** VoizNoiz 2LP Ambient Music Guide's Best Reissue 2018.
** Six Pillars guest mix on Resonance FM 104.4FM.
** Steamin' Soundworks VoizNoiz 2LP vinyl reissue out now.
** Transform rework by Machinefabriek: Ambientblog exclusive.
** Video with Gerco de Ruijter: Seinpostduin [52° 6'32.29"N / 4°16'34.73"O], on youtube.
** Score for 'The Thirsty City Ciudad Mexico' - documentary for World Water Atlas by Alexander Oey - Doxy Films.
** In Memoriam of Dmitry Vasilyev: tribute album on Kormdigitaal.
** VoizNoiz remix by Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel: out now: bandcamp.
** VoizNoiz 2LP vinyl reissue (ltd): order at Norman Records.
** Recordings 2018: Everywhere Else Is Just Right Here now at bandcamp.
** Score for 'Beyond Mountains', a War Child trailer by Gábor Deák.
** Between Sweet & Salt / #4 Zeelandbrug (video)
** Sounds for an upcoming project by Gerco de Ruijter
** Exclusive mix for LYL Radio, One Off show
** UAV & Guerilla Tactics featured in 'Begin Again', a work by Yin Yue Dance
** Dejan Radovanovic video for Our Alien Voice on vimeo
** Yin Yue Dance for New Dialect: music by Gareth Davis, Machinefabriek, Michel Banabila, Christopher Gluck, Hildur Gudnadottir
** Early Banabila/Saka recordings now available online via Steamin'Soundworks at bandcamp
** Grid Corrections (Gerco de Ruijter & Michel Banabila / 2016) at Variscoop 3
** Extended digital versions of the 2013 Banabila & Scanner 7" vinyl single in the iTunes stores
** San Francisco Balllet Guernica video trailer featuring Jump Cuts
** Jump Cuts signed with SF Ballet for upcoming new choreography, Guernica, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
** Just Above The Surface (bandcamp - download / 2018)
