Das nimmt ja eine echt krude Wendung. Sehr kuhl

Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

"In May, 2022, at least for a moment, we were absolved of our sins as the outline of the amoral face of pure consumption at the center of our galaxy was revealed to us.  Reflecting back to us the macro and the micro forms of our existence, its gravitational forces consume, distort, and deform all known structures, sounds, and rhythms.  As a result of this warping, familiar musical elements are deterritorialized to create new forms, but they simultaneously run the risk of collapsing into their own black holes of signification.  

As black holes are both galactic destroyers and creators, this is a space of creation/desire and death/destruction.  Ultimately, the outside observer can not see when one falls into a black hole.  For the outside observer, the person falling appears to slow down and eventually stand still. From the perspective of the falling person though, their experience of time is unchanged.  Their descent is rapid and violent.  In the end, time is fractured in the distance between the observer and the participant, simultaneously being crushed in the infinite density of the blackhole and also perpetually existing, frozen at the edge of the event horizon."

The accompanying collection of curated screenshots, texts,  and charts can be found here - 
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFOodHLOsE/4QmunJ8V4RGC0Mgrrn7vMQ/edit?utm_content=DAFOodHLOsE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

The curation of these images is an ongoing process and subject to change.

BONUS: https://youtu.be/2tI6o-Bn5jQ 

This project was generously supported by the Musikfonds NEUSTART KULTUR program.

we were lost, forever (preview)

Guest mix by Lain Iwakura aka @bill-b-wintermute (Graz)
SOPHIE – Is It Cold In The Water? (KAVARI 'Deluge Of Tears' Mix) 
Buffy the vampire slayer (Bootleg)
Abadir – III (Ice_eyers Third Eye Exercise Remix) 
Badawi & Vengeance Tenfold - Dstry<All>Prfts (Shackleton Remix feat. Vengeance Tenfold)
Regis – Blood Witness
Wona – Lament 
natsumi hirota - it's not happening 
Ghostwerk – IDKFMRNDCYCLE 
Dahjyn – Summer of the Sigh (Thegn Remix)
Backxwash – Spells (feat. Devi McCallion)
Govlink - Heartlink
OUTBACK & MANAPOOL – FUTURE PERFECT
Nymphomatriarch - Blood On The Rope
Jlin - Connect The Dots
DJ Yig – Burning 
ptwiggs – The End Is The Beginning
Slikback – Ram
Black Dresses – Understanding
Akira Takemoto (Serial Experiments Lain OST Bootleg)
Moor Mother - Time Float

Sun People
music by: FFT, Frozen Border, Glances, Zersetzung, Tristan Arp, Tomas Urquieta, Aeus Dex, Ibrahim Alfa Jr., Oyubi, Dreams, Bastiengoat, Bisweed, Ben Pest, Sun People, Laksa, LCY, Sayang, Yung.Raj, Willis Anne, Zoe McPherson / Jana Rush, EQ WHy, Theater 1, alllone / A.Fruit, DJ Pulse / Foul Play, Hajj

Listen to the show:
Thursdays // four-weekly on Sub.FM // 5pm-7pm (CET)(Live)
Fridays // bi-weekly on Radio Helsinki // 22h-24h (CET)(rerun)
Thursdays // bi-weekly on Radio Helsinki // 13h-15h (CET)(rerun)

Send promos & dubs: simon(at)sunpeople.at
Download the show via: archive.sub.fm/?s=Sun+People&submit=

Lain Iwakura // Sun People - 01/06/23 - SUB FM

This mix was originally assembled by Marc Richter aka Black To Comm for the Typecast series in September 2009 to accompany the album release of "Alphabet 1968" on the Type label.

Artwork: Wooden Veil / Christopher Kline

Sasha Frere-Jones | THE NEW YORKER
“Black To Comm is more like an abandoned museum of late-twentieth-century instruments whose exhibits are still running at half power. The music feels linked to the repetition and crunch of krautrock, so I was satisfied, sort of, to find this fantastic mix by Richter called “Fuck Krautrock” on the Type Records Web site. I assume the title means to acknowledge that he knows what his tastes sound like, while asserting he’s moved on. Krautrock was very 1993, which probably means it’s also very 2010.“

FUCK KRAUTROCK!!!

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