ouroboros

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Racine uses sound to transcend the contemporary hellscape. Far from indulging in purely hedonistic escapism or nihilistic detachment, the celebrated Canadian producer confronts difficult emotions head-on, embracing tension and turbulence. Each release reformulates uncertainty into haunted soundscapes bristling with detail, weaving fractured samples, mutant melodies and glacial electronics into a hyper-real reflection of modern living. New two-track single Delirium focuses those same future-seeking sonics into Racine’s most direct – not to mention surprising – work to date.

Side A coalesces the producer’s amorphous electronics into a crystalline dancefloor workout. Soaring vocals clipped from a New Age radio broadcast glide atop ruffneck drums, with noctilucent synth pads and fizzing ambience seeping in through the cracks. Racine’s signature sense of unease and melancholy is still very much present, though here lurking in the track’s low-end and on the periphery; an overwhelming endorphin rush threatening to tip into amphetamine anxiety at any moment. Side B explodes outwards from that same sound palette, dancefloor hooks atomised into formless textures, eschewing melody and rhythm as it reaches toward even more ecstatic heights.

Delirium provides an exhilarating expansion of Racine’s soundworld, demonstrating his prowess as a producer even while moving into new contexts, and speaking to a distinct need for ecstatic release and transcendence.

Mastering by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann

Delirium

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Racine - Delirium I

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Meditation

Tony Gatlif - Arrinconamela

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter And The Spring

byebye granny

HAPPYBIFDAYCAKE

Swing Tony Gatlif /Chant pour la paix

Well... the Forest can see,
you've known every tree,
but the Wind bares it's witness,
it can no longer aquit this,

pretends not know you,

why is God is so great,
if he's making you hate,
till the sweet earth below you,
pretends not know you?

If the prayer consists,
of curse that was hissed,
from the blessing of fire,
to the lonely denier,

Are you gonna sell the cell to the wayful youth?
Are you gonna burn in hell if you speak the truth?

Well... the mountain can hear,
you're in love with your fear,
but the wind does adore you,
so it has to implore you,

something that you have to know,

Why is God so good,
but you don't do what you should,
till the sweet sky above you,
pretends not to love you,
pretends not to love you,
pretends not to love you...

Now it's time for bed,
a pillow for your head,
and tell all your visions to me,

the Sun has gone away,
it's good-bye to the day,
and now we must close eyes to see,

every question is an answer,
ask and you'll see!
every answer is a question,
tell them to me!

forwards my Love,
and we'll wake into dreams,
nestled above,
in the not as it seems,

nestled in dappulous dreams,
nestled in dappulous,

let my lullabies,
close your pretty eyes!

now the day is done,
it's goodbye to the Sun,
and hello to dappulous dreams,

if you find me there,
and you become aware,
the transmission's ripe to receive,

every question is an answer,
ask and you'll see!
every answer is a question,
tell them to me!

forwards my Love,
and we'll both go to sleep,
nestled above,
in the Castles I keep,

nestled in dappulous dreams,
nestled in dappulous...

Fairy Circle Lullaby

Earth's Arms

僕たちの失敗 / 森田童子

Alone*

swimming

fairy floss

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