https://allbuttonsin.bandcamp.com/album/abi

Download

Artifacts

Frenetic Neutralist

Released November 21, 2021
https://scalq.bandcamp.com/album/apatheia

Gobo

Album: AAI
Thrill Jockey, 2021
Thrill 537

Mouse on Mars, the Berlin-based duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with an inexhaustible curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. Operating in their unique orbit within dance music’s nebulous echosystem, the duo’s hyper-detailed productions are inventive, groundbreaking but always possessing a signature joyful experimentation. A genre-less embrace of cutting-edge technologies have ensured that each Mouse on Mars release sounds strikingly modern, a fact made more remarkable when one reflects on the duo’s 25 years of making music. New album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes Toma and Werner’s fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further. Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers and longtime Mouse On Mars collaborator/percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo explores artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, summoning their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.

AAI compiles some of the most immediate and gripping music in Mouse on Mars’ extensive catalogue. Emerging from a primordial ooze of rolling bass and skittering electronics, hypnotic polyrhythms and pulsing synthesizers propel the listener across the record’s expanse. Hidden in the duo’s hyper-detailed productions is a kind of meta-narrative. Working with AI tech collective Birds on Mars and former Soundcloud programmers Rany Keddo and Derek Tingle, the duo collaborated on the creation of bespoke software capable of modelling speech. What appears to be Louis Chude-Sokei narrating through the story is in fact the AI speaking. Text and voice from Chude-Sokei and DJ/producer and programmer Yağmur Uçkunkaya (DJ Rayne) were fed into the software as a model, allowing Toma and Werner to control parameters like speed or mood, thereby creating a kind of speech instrument they could control and play as they would a synthesizer. The album’s narrative is quite literally mirrored in the music - the sound of an artificial intelligence growing, learning and speaking. Artwork was provided by the inventor of the computer graphics language Processing, Casey Reas, a further exploration of technology’s application in the context of art.

In Chude-Sokei’s text, as machine learning advances, robots begin to develop language, conscience, empathy - “anarchic” and unpredictable qualities. Drawing parallels between the evolution of human and machine, AAI uses technology as a lens to examine deep philosophical questions. The question of how we use technology and world resources feels particularly poignant and timely as we head into 2021. AAI posits that we must embrace AI and technology as a collaborator to break out of our current cultural and moral stagnation, and to ensure our survival as a species. As Werner explains: “AI is capable of developing qualities that we attach to humans, like empathy, imperfection and distraction, which are a big part of creativity. We need to get past the old paranoia that fears machines as the other, as competitors who will do things faster or better, because that just keeps us stuck in our selfishness, fear and xenophobia. Machines can open up new concepts of life, and expand our definitions of being human.“
https://www.thrilljockey.com/products/aai

New Definitions

From no/op — digital release here:
https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/no-op

no/op

magnangam

meshdotmg

Album: Auxilia
Label: Defunkt
Mastered: Robin Harwood
Release: Jan 19 2018

www.defunkt.co
www.fivesteppath.com

1. Otto Von Schirach - Bermuda Triangle Rescue Squad (Houston Edit)
2. Subjex - Cryptofunk
3. Datach'i - Behind Squares
4. Takeshi Muto & Hearts of Darknesses - Positive K
5. Terminal 11 - Deeper to Sleep
6. Daed - Acerbus
7. Hitori Tori - Sacksmiths Are Plenty
8. Gareth Clarke - Zamboni (Simple Plaque)
9. Cygnus - ne0-ge0
10. Five Step Path - Refeld
11. Milo Tech - Hunchord
12. Acid Jeep - Sample and Hold
13. Yakul - What The Problem Is
14. The Flashbulb - Patch 36

"Auxilia (LATIN) - help; assist; heal 

Defunkt Records is proud to present Auxilia - a collection of electronic music featuring local and international artists united to raise funds for hurricane relief in Houston, TX. 

All proceeds from this compilation are donated to the Greater Houston Community Relief Foundation - ghcf.org 

Thanks to the artists who contributed to this release and to the community for the support! 

____________________________ 

Defunkt Records is an electronic music and visual arts collective based in Houston, Texas focused on techno, electro, braindance, breakcore, digital hardcore, acid house & jungle music. 

Since 2015, Defunkt Records has hosted audio/visual showcases and is internationally renowned for featuring live hardware performances by some of the most innovative artists in the electronic underground."

Five Step Path - Refeld

I wrote this in a hostel within about 25 minutes while on a solo Journey in Prague. I played it live before HUVA Netowork a few days later in Rauchenwarth, Austria <3

Lonely in Prague 2010

The White Willow

The White Willow - Radio Version

Bandcamp: https://antistandardrecs.bandcamp.com/album/vvv008-ksw-chase-for-the-coal-idol
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1zpZtXhtk6gN3ip2XEtIT9?si=kcJSPTk7Rh25BpJ4ZESluA

>>> @loscilosci @exerspool @aaol-crtd

(preview mixxx by @ilthinkd)

KSW ✮ Chase For The Coal Idol [preview mixxx]

Video Oficial por Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYf9SzXSdc

Escuchala en Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/2H4LGlVBbSmjesAsqxS4UN?si=KvIELhn3R8ScbMn2I63Jgw&utm_source=copy-link

Escuchala en bandcamp


https://revelium.bandcamp.com/track/los-dias-pasan


KSW ✮ Chase For The Coal Idol [preview mixxx]

Antistandard Recs

Recent comments

Revelium

Antistandard Recs

Antistandard Recs

Antistandard Recs

Related tracks