Cluster Archive - 31/05/2020 A

Ma Chi No Go Mi

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Noah Creshevsky is an early pioneer of electronic and collage music who has been composing since 1971. He was trained by Luciano Berio at Juilliard and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, collaborated with John Cage on the track “In other words” for the EM Records release ‘The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky’, and later became a teacher and director of the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College and a visiting professor at Princeton University.

‘Reanimator’ is a collection of Noah’s work spanning over three decades, including the new composition “Belle de Jour”. Other pieces like 1980’s “Strategic Defense Initiative” — a blend of kung fu movie sounds, bell samples, and pitch-shifted abstract sound design — are clear precursors to the flourishing post-90s computer music movement, while “Lisa Barnard Redux” and “Tomomi Adachi Précis” — collaborations with vocalists Lisa Barnard and Tomomi Adachi — also combine a modern classical sensibility and exhilarating computer collage.

Reanimator

Strategic Defense Initiative

Artist: メトロノリ Metoronori
Album: メトロノリ works '14-'18 ペール
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: November 2, 2018

Music by Hikarie (Metoronori)
Visual art by Keith Rankin

Metoronori メトロノリ - 輝く年 (18)

YGRADE PROUDLY PRESENTS [YGR002] -- 
"Fragmented Environments" by gonima 

fragmentedenvironments.magoni.info 

Fragmented Environments is a collection of synthetic spaces, that, while fabricated, feel warm and familiar. gonima is a master of juxtaposition. Skittering aggressive rhythms, rapid changes in time signature and cold digital synthesizers work together to subvert their stereotypical identities. What would usually be perceived as a harsh, challenging palette presents itself in a gentle and inviting format. Fragmented Environments is not social music, but rather encourages tender introspection. A work that captures all the chaotic moving parts of life, yet still brilliantly maintains its normalcy.

symmetrical

@slugabed
@samuelorgan

THIS FRIDAY ALSO THIS AS WELL AS IVY LAB, S280F REMIXES & A NEW DIRTY PROTEST FROM SLUGA HIMSELF

SMASH THE BUY LINK

Slugabed - put the runes on u (Samuel Organ Remix)

For Bráulio

Toiret Status is Isamu Yorichika from Yamaguchi, Japan. His new work Otohime is his first vinyl record and his second album on Orange Milk following ◎omaru◎ in 2016. Otohime includes collaborations with Co La, and Yoshitaka Hikawa. He has also released music on the labels Noumenal Loom, Plus 100 Records, Pedicure Records, Wasabi Tapes, and Slagwerk.

Isamu began making music as a drummer for noise and hardcore bands which led to his first solo recordings in 2015. As Toiret Status he has said that he wants to create work resembling the idea of food going through digestion, excretion, and then flushing. This cycle is like the regurgitation of sounds sampled from his daily life: movies, video games, and field recordings. The sources are digested and then flushed back out as a different color.

I watched a Toiret Status performance in Fukuoka Japan in a shrine on top of a sumo ring. The show promoters were serving Japanese BBQ (Yakiniku / Yakitori) with a distinct common Japanese BBQ sauce and Heinz yellow mustard, and it was possibly some of the best food I have ever had. While I was eating I watched Isamu aggressively move around the sumo rink using a nintendo controller as a midi device, triggering intense bursts of sound. The first two steps in his goal - consumption and digestion - were happening to me when I first met him. The dedication Japanese people often display in art was also apparent while watching his performance; it felt like a congealing of "Japanese-ness" with the sumo rink, shrine, food, joyful and absurd music all meshing together in a quick burst.


Isamu’s new Toiret Status record Otohime is named after a fairy tale queen (with magical powers?) who lives undersea and entertains travelers by giving out gifts like jewelry. In Japanese this title could be an apt pun for - sound queen. However, Isamu stated that the title is a wishful statement about how his music would be utilized in the future. When people flush a toilet, he hopes his music might play and become a funny reminder of the Japanese emphasis on politeness and social tact. He likes the idea of turning something awkward into something fun. Toiret Status uses romaji (English letters written in Japanese phonetics to describe a foreign or new idea that is not in the Japanese tradition) for his album title, to hint at a pun and imply the desired function of the music while simultaneously alluding to Japanese folklore - a queen who makes music.

OTOHIME

Toiret Status - #67

Artist: Ervin Omsk
Album: Peilen
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: April 24 2020

Ervin Omsk is a pseudonym of Germany based musician and visual artist Sven Fritz. His debut album Peilen is a tactile piece based on a spatial approach, using oscillators, claps, percussion, flutes, speech fragments, noise and many other sources to approximate a sense of texture and terrain through sound. Each track forms acoustic and electronic images of varying dimension, expanse and density, ranging from shrubby vegetative miniatures to filaments and voids. Equal care is put into the music’s texture, timbre and negative space.

Music by Sven Fritz
Mastering by Matthias Gros and Sven Fritz
Thanks to Stephan Engelke and Benjamin Bascom
Visual art by Keith Rankin

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/peilen

Ervin Omsk - Seltsame Schleifen

"recovery girl" is the quickly growing side project of visionary galen tipton. Their debut EP was explosive and high energy, and is now being fleshed out into a full deluxe edition album featuring the single gross/scratch + remixes by MAXIMAL LIFE, P H Y S A, Mariode, Space Candy, Braz_OS, and bean boy. Digital release May 1st, & cassettes coming soon ~

all original songs and vocals produced, mixed, mastered, and sung by galen tipton
Soundcloud ~ https://soundcloud.com/galentipton
Spotify ~ https://open.spotify.com/artist/4yk43MhqPWsrrzoRyoMZhv?si=g6OGmHoLQ6mkeksNw22Hcw
Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/genderlessgenderfulgirl/
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/galenwctipton

art by gutuc krocax (fka tissue hunter)
Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/gutuc_krocax/

~ stream/download ~

recovery girl - big loud & violent (Space Candy Remix)

TRANSFORMATION. The open-submission compilation from DESKPOP & Hyperpop, focusing on evolution.

art by Cobysoft Joe

most songs mastered by Galen Tipton

TRANSFORMATION [MP3s]

Friends Without Faces - What We Do

Enjoy your stay here.
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Some of our favorites albums on Bandcamp:
https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-japan [Death's Dynamic Shroud - Neo Gaia Phantasy Live From Japan]
https://christtt.bandcamp.com/album/no-lives-matter [chris††† - no lives matter]
https://quietearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/volume-00 [Disworld - Volume 00]
https://cierramyst.bandcamp.com/album/witness-of-another-world [C!erra My$t - Witness of Another World]
https://paradiserecordshtml.bandcamp.com/album/love-disorder[Cheer Squad - Love Disorder]
https://leegamble.bandcamp.com/album/mnestic-pressure [Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure]
https://laurelhalo.bandcamp.com/album/dust [Laurel Halo - Dust]
https://ultraista.bandcamp.com/album/sister [Ultraista - Sister]
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Playlist on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpHSC8eWWL8&list=PLUHCZCDVpfdqXcLQ3aWppnoGISGjesmdr&index=2&t=51s
[Vaporwave, plunderphonic, concrete, ambient, noise, lofi, chiptune, live coding, IA, experimental and interesting music] 
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Playlists on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oSaxIlusNL9XJmnzwdpCu [Music Box by Cluster Archive]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Kjj2jlLMXbj1z1hIZVOWd [Live From A Moon Shaped Pool - Thom by  Radiohead Office charts]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60hshd11sVXhfFePbyVsWQ [PURE LIFE by Vapor Memory]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4539JHr01vrt2NLVxtT6b6 [Dream Catalogue by Vapor Memory]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPsDXxQmD40rEaAJ90tKV [TROJAN 420 by  Trojan Records]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1x4xkhnHFxR4OD9HOTBASX [NEO GAIA LEGEND PLAYLIST by Local Visions]
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Some of our favorite albums onTIDAL:
https://listen.tidal.com/album/26222823 [King Tubby - The Roots of Dub]
https://listen.tidal.com/album/97558201 [Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort]
https://tidal.com/browse/album/70601804 [Various Artists - Dream Disc, Vol. II]
https://tidal.com/browse/album/66139603 [Various Artists - Noumenal Loom Compilation 2]
https://listen.tidal.com/album/88544948 [Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong]
https://listen.tidal.com/album/101001850 [Daniel Pioro - Dust]
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