when you're hot around the narcs

Out now on C36 Cassette and digital

011 / 36 mins runtime

Overtime at the office. Smile. Co-workers talk behind your back.

Lixer and Splash Soldier Splendid mumble, scream and narrate the 9-5 routine.

Tales of class issues and discrimination are being force-fed through arcade- and cotton candy machines. Kermis.

Their voices glide and sink into oversaturated soundscapes of daily news, empty words, and bland, oily meals.

Violently sweet, sonic patchworks of life in the matrix emerge.

The government watches.

[Circling the Monopoly Board]

A rollercoaster rides through your friendly neighbourhood. All is well. > Barrel roll onto the flipside of trimmed front yards, picket fences and social niceties. Beware of the dog.

£​$​₿ navigate through toxic environments. Camouflaged with masculinity, blending into the shadows, secretly scanning their allies through the checkout. Surveilled. Before they disappear into the feed we catch a glimpse of their sensitive selves.

Recorded between November 2019
& March 2021 in Utrecht & Limburg NL

Dubbed to cassette July 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by
Lixer Manski (@farfetchd-2) & Splash Soldier Splendid (@wimwimwimwim)

Design by Luca van Grinsven

£​$​₿ MONOPOLY Shadow Edition

Lunetten Shadow Banking - £​$​₿ MONOPOLY Shadow Edition [excerpts]

Sim Card Hølder

SIM CARD HØLDER - Contrailsnake (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner)

Inspired by The K Foundation
ALL RITES REVERSED Ⓚ

This Mix is dedicated to commando Pata-NO! UNLTD 
https://soundcloud.com/pataproxy
https://soundcloud.com/whitecolors
https://soundcloud.com/t-c-43
https://patanounltd.bandcamp.com

More Disinfo about TOO COOL:
https://apple-oleander-pxjz.squarespace.com

"Blurbing Out: Too Cool

A specter of nihilistic terror to all mediums… 
a Post-Neoist détournement of the book medium and artist book medium alike and beyond, a deconstruction of encyclopedic-metaphysics, a transmedial implosion of theory/praxis; Too Cool remains all of this and more!

If you’re looking for “art” or boilerplate techno-metaphysical science then look elsewhere or perhaps nowhere, but if you’re looking for the pataphysical disappearance of referentiality than look no further! 
A list of contributors to Pata-No UN LTD’s UNNO (Unidentifiable Non-(Narrative) “Objects”/Ogjects) series Too Cool includes a imaginary solution transnetwork or “dream team” of pataphysicians, deconstructors, and Post-Neoists including Monty Cantsin, Luther Blissett, Karen Elliot, Kiki Bonbon, Istvan Kantor, Blatella Germanica, Mireille Perron, Zkymicx, Pseudonovalis, Linda Stillman, Gary Genosko, Norman Conquest, No Cantsin, the OuTransPo (Ouvrior de Transmédia Potentielle) and unknown countless more! Wether taken as the remains of a collection of cut-up experimental Post-Neoist & pataphysical zines and fragments or a simulacra sui generis transmedia textual anomaly, there’s plenty to overload demarcation and misreading of any kind."

MMXXI

TOO COOL Mix

Notes of snowflakes filling cracks in the pavement, glimmering in the light from a distant window. Crisp fog settling on an open field. A light dusting of pollen on the windshield. Tiny twigs rearranging underfoot. Furtive glance of recognition between two toads.

Thank you, Levan, for sharing a shard of your inner most self around our campfire.

Limited edition cassettes: https://inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/erozia
@levanshanidze

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Music/Mix: Levan Shanidze 
Artwork: Inner Most
Digital Mastering: Inner Most
Cassette Production and Mastering: seven.rec tapes

Erozia

Gather

Levan Shanidze - Lake called dread

Los Angeles duo Xen Model provides three tracks that incorporate playful, intricate programming within an effective rhythmic foundation. At every turn are new textures and micro-edits that come together to form engaging and beautifully balanced soundscapes.

BULB 2
Lively breaks and thick modulating pads accompany morphing vocal and mallet samples.

Produced by Xen Model (@xenmodel)
Mastered by Xen Model
Cover art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi
Words by Holden Carroll

Releases April 22nd, 2022

Quark

Bulb 2

Xen Model - Bulb 2

[EGC0.81] TRAXMAN > 21:53

Island of Angels w/ Bride, Wevv & Mark Allen Soul - 01/06/2022

220922

Solo Kurzweil.  Created in Real-Time in my home studio.

Photo  by Richard Carr.

Year of Music: October 29, 2025

Taken from Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043). 
Out now on tape & digital at Genot Centre.

Produced by @amselysen.
Mastered by @wimdehaen.
Album cover by eurasiandesert.
Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE (GEN043) by AMSELYSEN is a dense setup of signal interferences, of jacked up, spliced, reconstructed digital snippets, of outbursts whose amplitude overcooks the microphone's defenseless circuitry. Anxious with unreleased energy build-ups, the music is always pregnant with a double quality, something like a dagger made from ice, the possibility to shatter or crumble into a thousand shards combined with the looming threat of clean rupture posed by the blade's edge. Digital distortion is used here to unmask materials, to frontally attack them and expose their shimmering metallic face; pitch-time processing dilemmas get dodged by exploding into the high frequency gleam embedded but hidden in their algorithms. Completely removed from the "Lo-Fi" paradigm seeking warmth or nostalgia, the present degradation-reconstructions result in newly audible chirp figures, the sparkle of aliasing and the descent into the grainy territory of microscopic sound events. From a more panoramic perspective, these tracks are continually transforming contraptions, with looping frames accelerating, doubling, halting or stuttering, overloading, seemingly struggling to buffer, sometimes mixing with immiscible materials to form a glistening suspension of new sound material.

// Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) about the album
"Stemming from confusion, indignation, and feeling disoriented, Hypnagogic Surge appeals to dream-like lenses that reinterpret the everyday world; words lose clarity and are reduced to phonemes and their perceived energy, well-known advert jingles and hit songs are obfuscated and develop into undecipherable melodies, feelings ranging from relief to aggression flash quickly into succession without rhyme or reason. In the awareness gaps of the dream state, information is made up and averaged into confusing erroneous approximations — here translated in the poised presence of aural artifacts such as bad mp3 bit rate shimmer, 1/8in inlet pops, bad aliasing and interpolation, unshielded cable radio interference, fake stereo, inverted polarizing, etc
Amselysen’s nightmarish interpretation of the hypnagogic state is heavily informed by tropes surrounding hardcore music, only this time the tropes are removed from their context and reimagined before reappearing into the album, thus resulting in a hyperreality; a simulacra of hardcore, intensity and dynamism. Remediating genres like punk, techno, metal, rap and noise through distant mimicry and radical sampling, Hypnagogic Surge approaches liminal reverie with a garish maximalist attitude."

// Amselysen artist bio
Amselysen is Montreal-based intermedia artist Hakeem Lapointe’s latest musical project. It focuses on approaching experimental electronics with a critical lens, bridging the gap between conceptual spaces typically reserved to institutional practices and accessible aural aesthetics. Usually described as an outsider artist, never privy to the music academia and alien to most of the underground scene, Lapointe sheds all concerns for musical conventions and pursues their own sonic obsessions, which commonly sit in the leftfield genre. Their current work process ponders on indeterminacy, plunderphonics, hyperrealities, cultural foraging, and hypnagogia.
Works, outside of their own visual practice, include scores and sound design for short films, performances and installations in various exhibitions, including the After Hours at the McCord presented under Kent Monkman - Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.

SIM CARD HØLDER - Contrailsnake (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner)

Blueberry Records