Here's an upfront preview of the new Bogdan Raczynski album, You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever, out now on Disciples. A collection of warmly melodic audio sketches, underpinned by his familiar lo-fi drums and odd synth patches, we feel this is Bogdan's finest album to date, an eminently listenable sequence of electronic gems. 

Raczynski first arrived on the scene in 1999 with not one but three albums released in quick succession that year alone on Rephlex Records, a unique operator even by braindance standards, rumoured to have been discovered by Aphex Twin whilst sleeping rough in Tokyo. A steady stream of records followed, hyperactive broadsides of percussion set off by a winning knack for the buried earworm hook, much like his mentor RDJ. From his earliest rephlexions on hallucinatory, bassbin-rattling IDM with Boku Mo Wakaran, the outsider junglism of the '96 Drum n Bass Classixxx “compilation” to a mini-album of traditional Polish folk music, Muzyka Dla Imigrantów, his early catalogue is as rich as it is prolific. He also collaborated with Björk and remixed Autechre for Warp's 10+3 compilation. 

In 2019, Disciples began looking after his Rephlex era catalogue, putting together the Rave 'Till You Cry compilation of unreleased gold from the vaults, and reissuing his classic Samurai Math Beats LP. His last studio album, ADDLE, came out on Planet Mu in 2022. 

"Bogdan was a massive inspiration for some of my tracks on the Drukqs album, the fact he was doing it all on a shit PC tracker… totally amazing. This was before 99.9 percent of people used the computer for everything. His records are so underrated." - Aphex Twin

“Classic braindance” - Hardwax 

“Low-budget keyboards, Japanese robots, brown cardboard, child-like melodies, hyperactive machinery, kung-fu, drums, drums, and more drums.” - All Music 

We plan to follow the release of this new album with vinyl reissues of Boku Mo Wakaran and Thinking Of You, and a CD anthology of his early Rephlex albums.

DISC31 Bogdan Raczynski - You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever

From the album 'You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever' out 18 October 2024 on Disciples
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Bogdan Raczynski - djstus

Bogdan Raczynski - coughyspns

From the album 'You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever' out 18 October 2024 on Disciples 
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