Canadian born, Berlin based producer Aquarian makes his full length album debut The Snake That Eats Itself on Bedouin Records. This record follows his collaborative EPs with Deapmash as ‘AQXDM” and is his first solo release since his 2016 experimental mixtape for Quiet Time.

Nearly five years in the making, The Snake That Eats Itself is Aquarian's most complex, diverse and emotive work to date, plunging his trademark UK sound-system / techno hybrids into a self-contained, cinematic universe streaked with heavy influences from industrial, IDM, drone and dark pop music. Written in Brooklyn, New York in a deeply transitional, yet seemingly endless period preceding his relocation to Berlin, The Snake That Eats Itself refers to the Ouroboros, a mythological serpent symbolizing the cycle of birth and death and infinity itself.

The Snake That Eats Itself pits Aquarian's most abrasive and brutal moments next to his most wistful and introspective. Viscerally thick layers of tape saturation envelop the album as sludgy synths ooze against brittle atmospheres; breakbeats fragment, explode and disintegrate into swarms of delay and noise; scorched, metallic percussion - sampled from a year-long demolition and construction project next to his apartment - forge the rhythmic backbone of the album. These elements, however, seamlessly make way to startlingly crystalline and shimmering ambient passages, offering a sense of reprieve along with them.

The Snake That Eats Itself is accompanied by art direction and a collaborative live A/V show by acclaimed artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.

AQUARIAN - THE SNAKE THAT EATS ITSELF [Bedouin Records]

Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself

Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian makes his full length album debut The Snake That Eats Itself on Bedouin Records. This record follows his collaborative EPs with Deapmash as 'AQXDM" and is his first solo release since his 2016 experimental mixtape for Quiet Time.

Nearly five years in the making,The Snake That Eats Itself is Aquarian's most complex, diverse and emotive work to date, plunging his trademark UK sound-system / techno hybrids into a self-contained, cinematic universe streaked with heavy influences from industrial, IDM, drone and dark pop music. Written in Brooklyn, New York, in a deeply transitional, yet seemingly endless period preceding his relocation to Berlin,the title of the album refers to the Ouroboros, a mythological serpent symbolizing the cycle of birth and death and infinity itself.

The Snake That Eats Itself pits Aquarian's most abrasive and brutal moments next to his most wistful and introspective. Viscerally thick layers of tape saturation envelop the album as sludgy synths ooze against brittle atmospheres; breakbeats fragment, explode and disintegrate into swarms of delay and noise; scorched, metallic percussion - sampled from a year-long demolition and construction project next to his apartment - forge the rhythmic backbone of the album. These elements, however, seamlessly make way to startlingly crystalline and shimmering ambient passages, offering a sense of reprieve and balance.

Tracklist:
01. End Credits
02. Blood Sugar
03. Sketch 2 (Song for D.O.U.G.)
04. Ouroboros
05. Tarp2
06. New York, An Eternity
07. Hate Is A Strong Word (Part 1)
08. Hate is A Strong Word (Bruxist Part 2) 09. Letting Go At Arm's Length
10. 365 Days And Counting

The Snake That Eats Itself​ is accompanied by art direction and a collaborative live A/V show by acclaimed artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.
Early support from Aphex Twin
Artwork by Sougwen Chung
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Aquarian unless otherwise noted. Tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10 mixed by Dean Grenier
Additional engineering by Dean Grenier on tracks 7 & 8.
Mastered by Goth Trad

'Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1' taken from Aquarian's debut album titled 'The Snake That Eats Itself' that will be released on Bedouin Records on February 14th 2020.

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@aquarian's track "365 Days and Counting" will be released through @bedouinrecords on 24th of January: http://bit.ly/Aquarian365

The Snake That Eat Itself

365 Days and Counting

Aquarian - 365 Days and Counting

February 14 will be an even more special date in the calendar this year, as @aquarian's debut album 'The Snake That Eats Itself' is dropping via @bedouinrecords.

'Letting Go At Arm's Length' comes towards the album's close as its most wistful moment, pairing mournful vocal harmonies with a melancholic aural backdrop.

Out digitally on January 24 and physically on February 14. Pre-order it here: https://bedouin.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/bdnx004/aquarian-the-snake-that-eats-itself

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Premiere: Aquarian 'Letting Go At Arm's Length'

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