Afrikan Sciences 
'Circuitous' LP
PAN 54

Peerless rhythmist and sonic explorer Afrikan Sciences makes his PAN debut with 'Circuitous,' the third full-length, freeform offering from the New York-based artist.

At the nexus of Afrofuturism, science fiction, transcendental free jazz, and future hip hop, this new work from Eric Porter Douglas casts itself and its creator in a liminal zone most recognizably charted by astral traveler Sun Ra. ‘Circuitous’ follows from nearly a decade of releases for Deepblak —the Oakland-rooted imprint of frequent collaborator Aybee— and shares common blood with both the elevated consciousness of late '80s club culture and contemporary West Coast beat scene

Built around Douglas’ signature polyrhythms and complex melodies, the unorthodox agility demonstrated throughout the album’s fourteen tracks reflect his long history of live, improvised sets combining multiple turntables, upright bass, and a command center of digital tablets and controllers. Each track maps the artist’s own movements, tracing paths of flight, highway trajectories through tunnels and over bridges, and rides through rough and gated neighborhoods. If familiar on the surface, deeper or repeated listenings to ‘Circuitous’ reveal the dynamic multiplicity embodied within.

'Circuitous' is a free and unbound body of work—one that defies easy classification yet translates fluidly across multiple environments—compiled over double LP in order to fully realize the scope of Afrikan Science's sonic palette.

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Afrikan Sciences 'Circuitous' (PAN 54)

Listen to James William Blades' haunting soundtrack to Grace Wales Bonner's spring/summer 16 LC:M presentation.

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Step into a seven-minute sonic odyssey where sound flows in endless waves. *Waves of Pleasure* unfolds through warm, atmospheric synth layers and understated rhythms that breathe in sync with the ocean’s rise and fall. From the serene, shimmering opening, you are drawn into a growing tapestry of melodic currents that envelop you in weightless tranquility. Each shift feels organic, guiding you between meditative stillness and a quiet, hypnotic momentum. Rich textures and subtle details invite repeated listening, revealing new nuances with every journey. Ideal for late-night reflection, deep focus, or moments of introspective escape, this track doesn’t just accompany you—it carries you into the heart of its boundless, flowing soundscape.

Waves Of Pleasure

Truth. American history Y. Inspired by Fictionalive No More Questions. This one is trance electro with  samples from Detroit 66. It's a stab with satire looking at the absurdity of American culture with respect to American culture. Think Pastiche, Dada-esque sound scape that paints a picture of the generation that we are, the struggles we come from, the turbulence we rise above, and the challenges we have yet to deal with. How do we cope? We are here. Now.  The past is a myth, the future does not exist, the presence is a gift. We follow our passions and stay the course.  We focus and hold no bars.  How do we survive? By perseverance. 

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Thomas William's 'Tuition' featuring Kid Kairo and Chun Yin is taken from his Annum Contra EP, released November via Plastic World.

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Thomas William - Tuition featuring Kid Kairo & Chun Yin

Taken from 'Detroit, MI 1997 - 2001' EP by Heathered Pearls, out December 8, 2017.

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Memory distorts itself, reshaping past & future alike. Rosewater Ctz’s ‘Crushed’ EP exists in the space between fantasy & recollection.Its ethereal soundscapes, guitars and driving drum breaks depict a fragile utopia. The 6 track EP alternates ambient and club tracks, weaving together states of absence and presence.
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R. Elizabeth is the recording name of London-based artist and academic Rachael Finney. Every And All We Voyage On is her
solo recording project’s second full length and is a focused distillation of her practice in sound art and her knack for pop
minimalism. It follows a long sold out release on Where To Now? Records and a prolonged period in which she concentrated
on artist residencies exploring her interest in recorded sound and voice. Immediate and natural, Every And All We Voyage On
manages to sound joyful while tackling complex themes, handling everything with an improvisatory touch. The songs are full of
air and light; infectious, melodic and off-the-cuff.
Recorded using a single 80s Casio keyboard, reel-to-reel tape manipulation, piano and vocal, Finney’s practice with R. Elizabeth
belies a studious attention to detail. Her academic work is often focused on analysing sounds – particularly voice and language –
divorced from meaning and R. Elizabeth challenges the listener with overtly emotional tropes: sweeping portmento lap-steel
guitar keyboard tones on Back From Ten suggest a nostalgic melancholy when it intersects with the narrator closing her eyes,
realising she has nothing left to give. The lilting vocal cloaked in reverb is disarming, with an almost child-like surrender to the
undertow of the song. On Tragedy And Trade there’s a rough grace to the mixing with visceral, manipulated tape sounding like
the artists’ hands are literally in the speakers wrenching the melodies in mid-air. When it intersects with chants about the “gaps
and the silences” it has an eerie, hauntological effect. R. Elizabeth is constantly playing with sound and song: a Wonderland of
perceived emotion, the listener’s perception of what they’re hearing constantly in flux, it’s deceptively simple and deserving of
repetitive listening.
Cut Piano opens the album and introduces a documentary-feel which the album upholds through-out. It’s the sound of the artist
mangling a tape of her own piano recording, twisting it out of shape and suggesting a bend in reality. We’re listening to the artist
becoming a ghost in her own machine, a 3rd or 4th generation copy of an emotion rendered a long time ago, chilling and playful at
the same time. An Image Is Different bursts out of this with a sunny Casiotone beat, a melodic contrast that also introduces
Finney’s vocal. It flitters between a gorgeous repetitive melody ruminating about the nature of reality and a seemingly careless,
conversational tone. The effect is joyful, but you don’t really know why. The lyrics instruct someone (you? The artist?) to “go
outside and break someone’s neck, make it feel so real” before ending with R. Elizabeth nonchalantly stating “I dunno, to be
honest I don’t really care” as if on the phone to someone they’re bored with. It would be jarring if it wasn’t so catchy and uplifting.
The title track is a slow-tempo meditation with droning synths providing the background to slow, dragging tape sounds and
grounding, just-out-of-focus vocals bunkering down in the mix. The methodology suggests the work of Broadcast: there’s a
loping bassline that propels the track forward but the duet/duel between Finney’s haunted vocal and the soloing tape warble
provides aural snakes for the listener’s ear to follow.

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