AI—F launches with its inaugural release in the form of a taut three tracker from label boss Løt.te.

‘A Lattice of Virtually Identical Nodes’ takes its name from mesh networks, and explores the use of mobile technology and meshnets as a communication tool during recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

‘Hülya’s Eye’ is a tense, syncopated stepper that keeps the pressure at maximum throughout with immense sub bass and high-pitched digital static stretching the frequency domain as far as it can go. Samples from various protests and films provide context for the unrelenting tension, while the hyper-digital sound palette points to the growing role that technology is playing on the streets where the oppressed resist power-hungry governments and their henchmen.

‘Tunnel Under the Base Station’ is a dirtier, grimier affair that sounds like a rugged hi-tech engine hurtling through earth deep below the surface with steady and unstoppable force. While the elastic sound design and the syncopated hi-hats induce claustrophobia, the tribal percussion and the epic synth lead pry the space open, creating an impossible sense of space and time.

‘Eavesdropping Guoanbu Agent’ takes the elastic synthesizers and metal clangs away from the dance floor to a much darker, seedier place. Rhythmic synths converse with iron rods (dragged across the basement floor), growling frame drums, and wooden percussion played with force and urgency. The horns that arrive around the 5 minute mark release the tension while expanding the emotional scope of the closer.

‘A Lattice of Virtually Identical Nodes’ charts an exciting new course for Løt.te's sound, bringing together his hyper-textured technoid sound design with an appetite for breaking free from the confines of techno's familiar rhythmic structures.

A Lattice of Virtually Identical Nodes

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Label run by Løt.te.

AI—F releases music and sound works that strive to shed light on the use of mainstream and emerging technologies by and against oppressors such as authoritarian governments and greedy corporations.

All proceeds from AI—F Løt.te releases donated to relevant causes.

All works licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Løt.te is Mehmet Irdel (born 1978), a Turkish artist, producer, dj and designer.

He’s currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where he runs AI—F, a record label releasing music and sound works that explore use of technology by and against oppressors such as authoritarian governments and greedy corporations.

Upon moving to the US from his native Turkey at age 18, Mehmet started composing electronic music initially influenced by Warp Records and A-Musik artists, and later by industrial and experimental acts like Coil, Muslimgauze, Z’ev, Einstürzende Neubauten and Aube.

In 2010, he founded the ambient/noise project Divine Slime, which blended electronics with traditional instruments from the Middle East and East Asia. He also co-founded the art and design collective and record label Rote Productions, through which he released experimental records and artworks until 2015.

Mehmet started producing and releasing music and performing under the Løt.te name in 2014. He’s released records on The Bunker New York, Robert & Leopold, New York Trax, Mysteries of the Deep, and AI—F.  Mehmet has performed globally both live and as a dj, at venues such as Berghain (BER), Pickle Factory (LON), Contact (TYO), Nowadays (NYC), Good Room (NYC), and Bossa Nova Civic Club (NYC).

Since 2017, he's been producing and exhibiting politically-charged long form audio and audiovisual works that take inspiration and adopt techniques from filmmaking. These works have been presented at galleries and performance spaces in both USA and Turkey.