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THE MANY LIVES OF HUNTER ERICSON, TELEPHONE MAN 

Artist, inventor, collector-historian, and explorer, Hunter Ericson encodes secret messages into skittery beats. He put his roots down in rave in the early 2000’s as a turntable junky and drum n’ bass head, simultaneously falling in with graffiti culture and practice. As the years progressed, his career as a cellphone tower technician granted him initiation into the mysterious world of telephone esoterica. Triangulated between these three pillars of inspiration—Rave, Graffiti, and Telecommunication—and driven by a frenetic curiosity, the Telephone Man keeps his hands in many arcane realms.  

 Besides DJing and audio production, Ericson’s creative interests include phone phreaking, hardware hacking, synth-building, record pressing, pirate FM radio broadcasting, experimental video production and animation, VHS, tagging and mural-making, graphic design, machine embroidery, screenprinting, writing, and more. His current major project, Telecommunity, involves broadcasting eclectic aural madness into the airwaves from his own repurposed telephone tower in the hills of Pennsylvania, throwing electronic music shows with an ever-evolving cohort of innovative collaborators, staging pop-up museums and art installations, and offering a steady stream of mystical multimedia transmissions to the public at large.  

 As he roams between tower sites on New York City rooftops and remote locations in mountains or plains, Ericson gathers discarded telecommunication equipment and unearths forgotten lore such as Bell labs microfiche stashes. He often utilizes these finds to create Frankensteined instruments and cryptic artworks. He fuses analog synths and monster turntables with anachronistic industrial housings and mutated telephone gear in order to perform live with his own inventions. He recently procured a record-cutting lathe that once belonged to the storied Louis and Bebe Barron, and finds hidden magic in telephone employee service award jewelry. 

 Best friend and co-conspirator Spencer Hutchinson has this to say: 

 “By combining the esoteric with high and low tech, Hunter Ericson taps into the spirit of the machine age of telecommunications, an age gone far away through the folds of time… When will the boy stop?”

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Full stream of Snowdrops' "Arctic Passage," taken from Singing Stones (Volume 1) LP on Gizeh Records, out on October 25.

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WL//WH is pleased to premiere “Requiem for the Forgotten Spectre”, the fourth song from Belial Pelegrim's conceptual fifteen-track opus.
Refined sculptor of equally mysterious and thought-provoking sound narratives combined with intricately textured and multifaceted rich arrangements, wobbling through lucid visions and pensive moods.
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Almost 5 years to the day since his Bricolage debut, "Imitation of Faith", the prolific Belial Pelegrim returns with his latest musical escapade, "The Astronaut's Last Polaroid", and it's a very special one indeed.
This album tells the story of Jack Hawthorne. A 68 year old former NASA astronaut that is now grappling with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Once celebrated for his groundbreaking lunar missions, Jack now finds himself lost in the uncharted territory of his fading mind.
Alzheimer's disease is a subject that is no doubt close to the hearts of a lot of people and it's a subject that Belial has carefully mapped out with the utmost respect.
The music itself is 15 tracks of lucid and harmonic experimental soundscapes that set a transient stage for what feels like a dark yet beautiful dream. There's a tinge of anxiety laced throughout as you would expect with such a theme but it never becomes foreboding. It's more like giant swirls of memories and relics of the past that drift in and out of view.
Belial expertly maps out the journey through hypnagogic tones that resonate with the heart and mind. Fleeting glimpses of rhythmic patterns, flashes of brooding strings and sprinkles of melodic dust. Taking us on a trip through not only Jack's consciousness but also our own. The depth and emotion that burrows its way into each track is of grandiose proportions. At times it feels like we're witnessing a one-man orchestra as we traverse through various realms of classical, glitch. ambient and electronica. A reverie of sonic tapestry.
"The Astronaut's Last Polaroid" serves as a woozy yet visceral reminder that time is not always on our side when it comes to memory but also that the mind is a beautiful place regardless.
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ARTIST: Belial Pelegrim ( @belial-pelegrim )
LABEL: Bricolage ( @bricolage-g5 )
TITLE: The Astronaut's Last Polaroid
CATALOGUE: bc089
FORMAT: Digital
ARTWORK: B Pelegrim
MASTER: B Pelegrim
RELEASE DATE: November 22, 2024
BUY: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-astronauts-last-polaroid-bc089

Full album preview @ youtu.be/RieDpbHlE5Q
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Belial Pelegrim social links:
- https://hyperfollow.com/belialpelegrim
Bricolage Social links:
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/bricolageg5
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/BricolageG5
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/BricolageG5
- Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/BricolageG5/
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PURCHASE: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-astronauts-last-polaroid-bc089

Check WL//WH Blog for more: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-belial-pelegrim-requiem-for-the-forgotten-spectre-from-the-astronauts-last-polaroid-lp-bricolage/

The Astronaut's Last Polaroid (bc089)

November 22, 2024

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WL//WH Premiere: BELIAL PELEGRIM "Requiem for the Forgotten Spectre" [Bricolage]

Taken from the "Here" EP

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Solomon's Paradox

dope lp that has been removed from streaming services. enjoy the vibes //
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Artist: Substak
Release Title: Distortion of Senses
Catalog: EXPBC028
Release: 2024-11-28

Substak - Break Through (Preview)

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Woodland Creatures' first record in their Thematic Cluster Nostalgic Wavs is Sciuridae, a self-titled record at the nexus between the Skwirl and Shīdo monikers, out January 24th.

Pre-order: https://skwirl.bandcamp.com/album/sciuridae
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Sciuridae

Premiere: Sciuridae - Sundara

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words of the artist:
"This mix features tracks from my latest release, Data Curation II, which was released on December 13, 2024, through the label EC Underground. 
All tracks were previously and exclusively released digitally via Roel Funcken's Bandcamp."

Data Curation II Bandcamp: https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/data-curation-2
Mastering by exm / Artwork is a painting called "Boids": shorturl.at/mpnA4

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Roel Funcken officially popped up on the scene in 2010, with his solo debut, titled Vade, out on Ad Noiseam. But fans of electronic music, and IDM in general, have been tracking this Dutch musician for over a decade prior, when, along with his brother, Don, the duo has released some of the genre defining music on labels such as Djak-Up-Bitch, Schematic, Sublight Records, Neo Ouija, n5MD , Arcola (Warp) as the one and only Funckarma. In 2009 the Funcken brothers kicked off their very own, digital-only, Funcken Industry imprint, which hosted a few of their other projects and offshoots, such as Shadow Huntaz, Scone, Quench, Automotive, and the latest from Roel's solo works. Roel continues to influence the evolution of music through numerous releases (Sapper Morton on Analogical Force, Semtinal Convex on Methlab and Prester Hynn on his own imprint to name a few) and active engagement in the community, with music festival curation, mixes on mixlr and soundcloud and weekly playlists on Soundcloud and spotify. 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roelfuncken1975/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roelfuncken/
Bandcamp: https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/music
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Tracklist:

01 / Funck’d - Texensis 
02 / Funck’d - Steve Brown 
03 / Roel Funcken - TharenThesos 
04 / Funck’d - Gown part 2 
05 / Funck’d - Gown part 1 
06 / Funck’d - Bytes3 
07 / Funck’d - Rynth 
08 / Funck’d - Kaben 
09 / Funck’d - Phronima Sedentaria 
10 / Roel Funcken - Kadrex 
11 / Roel Funcken - Escutcheon 
12 / Roel Funcken - Brifford Clyde 
13 / Roel Funcken - Boton Crawl 
14 / Roel Funcken - Goff Mideon 
15 / Funck’d - Flipped 
16 / Funck’d - Frobin 101 
17 / Funck’d - Gob 
18 / Roel Funcken - Coprinellus Disseminatus 
19 / Roel Funcken - Tarvom 
20 / Funck’d - Krow 
21 / Roel Funcken - Drescarpa Ive

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