Wonderful evolution of sounds. Everything in its right place.

this is my sort of evolution - slow, patient, and it definitely rewards the listener for sticking to it.

Really a great, mind-expanding piece of music, brother!

sold out! i discovered this beautiful album too late!

Lovely build throughout. Wonderful piece.

Taken from my "Between Worlds" album out now on Soundtracking The Void. Cassettes are sold out but digital still available.

https://soundtrackingthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/between-worlds

https://soundcloud.com/soundtrackingthevoid

Fragile X - Between Worlds (Masters)

Between Worlds

Hiraeth

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-circle

Taken from the See Blue Audio release page.

The story of ‘The Inner Circle’ goes back to 2016 and ‘The Outer Circle’ released on Bricolage. Subtitled ‘A Semi-Conscious Experience’, it captured the mood of a Sunday morning after a long weekend and travelling home on a busy subway train from the West End of Glasgow. Field recordings made on the journey were used as the basis for a series of tracks that reflect this special post-clubbing state of mind.

Field recordings also form the core of ‘The Inner Circle’, but whereas its predecessor was a little raw and rough around the edges, this long overdue follow-up is more refined and thoughtful, more mature even, in terms of both production and ideas. This is also reflected in the setting of the field recordings: 10pm on a quiet weeknight and travelling from the south side of the city. In both cases, the destination and final stop were the same – home – but ‘The Inner Circle’ is more introspective in tone. Essentially, this is the story of the subway environment expressed through music.

This second collection of five tracks, predominately beatless, begins with ‘One Way’ and the implication is clear: this journey has an ending. As often happens, we experience a sense of exhilaration when entering a subterranean world, and the dreamlike, slow-motion synths are reminiscent of ‘Departure from Nowhere’ and ‘Colour in Motion’, the opening tracks on ‘Maps of the Lost’ and ‘Chromatherapy’ respectively, both released on See Blue Audio in 2020. This is followed by ‘Kinning Park’, a suburb of Glasgow, and we are now fully immersed in an underground world of metal and machines. There’s a feeling of anxiety, even claustrophobia, to this track with its eerie bleeps and shadowy sounds.

As we reach ‘Shields Road’ and closer to home, the atmosphere is lighter, lifted by ethereal washes of electronica and trippy beats, which appear for the first time on ‘The Inner Circle’. Then it’s onto the post-industrial area of ‘West Street’ with its euphoric ambient tapestry of sound, which breaks down to an electronic pulse taken from a field recording of a train in motion, a hypnotic sound that surely resonates with us all.

Finally, ‘Home’ as the train pulls to a stop, and we pass through the ticket barrier and into the cool night air. Exquisite and cinematic, it’s a sublime ending to the story, but as is often the case, tinged with sadness now that the journey is over. As in life, most journeys are a bittersweet mixture of highs and lows, tension and excitement, communication and contemplation.

‘The Inner Circle’ is a musical dialogue between a mechanical underground world and the stories of the travellers through that world, as imagined by Fragile X, who fleetingly appear and disappear in the short stops between stations. The field recordings are far more than just background sounds, and they have been looped and integrated into the music that surrounds them. Trains approaching, brakes screeching, doors closing, tannoy announcements, cables buzzing, dripping water and the clang of metal, the buzz of commuters, the very stuff of life. In the context of 2021, it’s also the sound of the slow and hopeful return to normality from the coronavirus pandemic.

Mastered by Richard Jones at Dark Fidelity Hi Fi Studios.

The Inner Circle EP

The Inner Circle

My new album "Human Condition" was released on Cue Dot last month.

"It’s an album that poses more questions than answers. An album exploring what goes beyond human. Do we transcend? Do we just waste away? Does it matter?

What is important is the present and how we can be better for ourselves and others around us in every aspect of our lives. This album is a representation of the six stages of the human condition. Birth, growth, emotion, aspiration, conflict and mortality. An exploration of the essentials of existence and how we can be more than the sum of our parts."

Available at the link below.
cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/human-condition

Mastered by Rick Jones @richard-jones-215

Fragile X - Human Condition (Masters)

Human  Condition

Human Condition

A Question I Have Become For Myself

Our third release of 2023 comes from Urgula. Following on from his much lauded "Frequency Wars" EP on the label back in 2020, the Glaswegian producer returns to Bricolage with his first full length release in the form of "Caustic Manifest(o)".

An album inspired in part by Italian futurism, the dark and hypnotic soundscapes on show here give privy to the idea of traversing through galaxies, planets and moons. With dynamic, pulsing and energetic movements, we launch from earth and are propelled upwards into orbit and beyond with a cluster of dystopian bleeps and alien-like atmospherics that teleport us into a hyper space soundtrack of serrated percussion, spiraling modular tones and extra terrestrial sound design.

This is club music for the worlds above us.

@urgula

Caustic Manifest(o) (bc078)

Caustic Manifest(o)

Urgula - Arrakis (from the "Caustic Manifest(o)" album)

Yürük

When the Artificial Intelligent Wars are over will the machines have any regrets?

Audio/Visual @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjgO_gxnvOg&t=10s

Taken from my "Panzer Kunst" EP on @disintegration-state

Available @ https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/panzer-kunst-2

Panzer Kunst

Panzer Kunst EP

The Cyborg's Lucid Dream

"Departure from Nowhere" is the opening track from my upcoming "Maps for the Lost" EP on See Blue Audio.

@seditiondjs

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/maps-for-the-lost

Maps for the Lost

Departure from Nowhere

The title track from my latest EP.

"Maps for the Lost" was released on the, Barcelona based, See Blue Audio label on July 17th @seditiondjs

A musical travelogue in five parts.

View the A/V on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/9AA0EZ98X0M

Full EP @ https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/maps-for-the-lost

"Colour in Motion" is the opening track from my second EP on the See Blue Audio label.

https://soundcloud.com/seditiondjs

Releases 20th November. Pre order available below.

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/chromatherapy

Chromatherapy

Colour in Motion

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/all-it-was-was-something-beautiful

All It Was (Was Something Beautiful)

"Reverie" is taken from my upcoming album on the @soundtrackingthevoid label

The "Between Worlds" album will be released in March.

https://soundtrackingthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/between-worlds

https://soundtrackingthevoid.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/soundtrackingtv
https://www.instagram.com/soundtrackingthevoid/

Cassette and Digital

Reverie

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.

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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

"The Great Brain Robbery" released via Bricolage on April 14th.
Cassette and digital here : https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-brain-robbery-bc077

"The Man With The Plastic Brain" released via noci miste records on October 28th.
Cassette / Mini Disc / Digital here : https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-with-the-plastic-brain

"Mind The Gap" released via Waxing Crescent Records on August 12th.
Vinyl / Digital here : https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mind-the-gap

"Human Condition" released via Cue Dot Records on February 18th.
CD / Digital here ; https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/human-condition

Music released on Bricolage, Waxing Crescent, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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