Astral VIP - Dugong & Nipuna - Refuge Worldwide [10.11.23]

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

DJ OJO 16.1.23

More @hdfk: http://www.movement.radio/podcasts/haunted-dancehall

Haunted Dancehall (22.12.2023)

CYSP (https://soundcloud.com/herman240p & https://soundcloud.com/jonteprippz) for https://soundcloud.com/dekatmemwa

De Kat Memwa x Retreat Radio: CYSP (20/01/24)

Downtempot-pourri taken from a live recording at Ohm Town in Nantes. 


Bienvenue chez Christian Coiffure w/ Christian Coiffure (26/01/24)

`Cliche - The Third Planet (demo)` from the forthcoming album `Omniscience`

Originally aired January 27th 2024

"BEAT SCENE"
A Little Soul - Pete Rock
For The People -Pete Rock
Get Dis Money - Slum Village
Why Like This? - Teebs	
Arrow Root - MF DOOM	
Jackie - Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program	
Dubs That Don't Match - Prefuse 73	
Bouncers - Oh No	
Play the Keys (Instrumental)- Black Milk	
The Red- Jaylib	
Love Planet Science - Ge-Ology	
Won't Do	- J Dilla 
Robot Snares Got No Cadence Or Balance - Prefuse 73	
1685/Bach - Nosaj Thing
Melt! - Flying Lotus	
The Payback (Gotta) - Madlib		
Take It Back- Madlib	
Return - Samiyam		
Toe Fat (Ghettozone) - Madlib	
Don't Cry	J Dilla - Donuts	
wen uuu (Teebs Remix) - Shlohmo	
1983 - Flying Lotus	
Spoons (Shigeto Remix)	- Shlohmo	
Antigravity (Low Limit remix)	- Shlohmo	
Needs Deodorant- Mono/Poly	
Evergreen - Shigeto	
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COMMUNITY CRATE 
tape cleaner - @screerunning
Nani -  @textchunk
BASIS - @hood-joplin	
Senseless - @textchunk	
Sibon - @djeity
Black Tusk - @captivatebeats
4 stepperz - @angelscience	
Sykohtropik - @wavesofhoney
Metro - @siadic
Find You (Ghost Five) - @looting_music	
Daisugi - @agimat_iha	
Clubmoss- @destratavan
No Ctrl -  @origintxt, @emrrldcity
sza snooze ukg - @ggmothra
Tuff	- @origintxt, @emrrldcity
One Second -	@foreverhomesick @taal-mala
Liberation Hardware - @looting_music	
Sour Gummies WIP - @thefallowtwin
hidden bell style - @djsuncat

Pattern Language Episode 2

idk practice ig. i fucking hate being sad.
just cleaned my room and thought id upload as well, might come back to this and work on the melody and drums more. for now just have it as it is, slowed and reverb at the end lmao

i hate being stuck

Fragile

Track 2 from the 'Lullabies for Parasomniacs' album by Disco Outcast.

`Cliche - The Third Planet (demo)` from the forthcoming album `Omniscience`

cliche.biocodes

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