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Bit Rot (Infinite Machine, 2022)

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Artist: Various Artists
Album: Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Cat.No: CHI029
Master: John Hannon
Artwork: Chloé Delarue
Release Date: 16/07/2021

'Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society' is a sound editing project led by Chloé Delarue, a visual artist based in Geneva (ch) in collaboration with Adeena Mey, a curator, art critic, managing editor of the magazine Afterall (Central St Martins, London, UK) and researcher/teacher at Ecal (Lausanne, ch).

Together, they gathered sound artists Jaeho Hwang, Lafidki, Ayankoko, Pisitakun of the Chinabot label and the performer-composer Seth Ayyaz in a desire to bring together horizons of thoughts with a singular tonality in resonance with the TAFAA* cycle. The release is a continuation of the deployment of Chloé Delarue's solo show - TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH, which took place at the Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center in Annemasse (fr).

The four compositions resulting from this meeting are materialized in a hybrid compilation.
Each of the tracks, affected by the aesthetic spectrum of TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH, results from unique paths that each sound artist builds in their own works. This compilation released in the exhibition space and in its vinyl form, was infused under this particular atmosphere with the aura of sodium, as an echo of the previous opus TAFAA - ACID RAVE. The title evokes territories in wasteland and multitude of theaters of an urbanity that has become tropical for one night. 

For Chloé Delarue, the environment produced under TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH and its aesthetic feeling is linked with the dissemination of these four tracks. As she says, it becomes “like the deep trance of a noise invisible to oneself but that we perceive thanks to the questioning of its own imperception, the work no longer looks at itself, it injects itself.”

The vinyl title TAFAA - Random Activity (...) is borrowed from Gustav Metzger taken from an extract from his Manifesto On random activity in material / transforming works of art in July 30, 1964.


Chloé Delarue constitutes what she calls environments under the influence of the TAFAA perception system, an acronym for Toward A Fully Automated Appearance.
TAFAA is a conceptual organ that she builds as a cognitive outgrowth allowing her access to the reasoning that feeds her work. It is under this name, indexed by a number or a subtitle, that each occurrence of her work has been presented since 2015.
Thus, she probes the ambiguous relations that our society maintains with its multitudes of transfigurations, real or simulated, at the time of permanent interconnections and raises questions relating to changes in perceptions and cognitive transformations of our beings under the visible and invisible authority of cosmotechnics.

 Chloé Delarue and Adeena May have already worked together, notably on the group exhibition Neo Geography I & II (Neuchâtel, ch and Seoul, kr) where Adeena Mey was curator with Kyung Roh Banwart and where Chloé Delarue produced the sequence TAFAA - SO O AM (2017), and more recently with the text Retroactive feedback. On Chloé Delarue’s TAFAA was written by Adeena Mey for her first monograph published by Periferia editions in the collection Cahiers d’Artistes - Pro Helvetia.

The vinyl was produced by la Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center (fr) and distributed by Chinabot and Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center.

Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society

Jaeho Hwang - Dystopia

An epilogue born out of frustration and emotional destiny to express dialogue, deprived of speaking-in-tongues. Travelling into space, reassembling a monolithic tool, @jacinthlatti designs emotion through the translational medium.
 
Newcomer, diving head first into production with a shape shifting approach, expressing a versatile set of influences— but nonetheless limited to breaks, ambient and techno.

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Jacinth – Ancient Something

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Taken from SBKT044: Prettybwoy - Tayutau Remixes
Release date: 1st October 2021
Artwork: Wang Jingxin
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Prettybwoy’s debut album ‘Tayutau’ gets a UK remix package from Cooly G, DJ Q, Mr. Mitch feat. miles and Pinch.

Tracklist:

1. SLT (Mr Mitch Remix feat. miles)
2. Island (Cooly G Remix)
3. Destination feat. lIlI (DJ Q Remix)
4. Mikoshi (Pinch Remix

Tayutau Remixes

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Prettybwoy - SLT (Mr Mitch Remix feat. miles)

IM094 - @softassnow - Bit Rot
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: January 21st ,2022
Format: 12" / Digital

The Norwegian-born/Berlin-based electronic duo Soft as Snow returns with their most powerful statement yet. Their second full length 'Bit Rot' perfectly captures the friction of our contemporary existence in which smooth digital surfaces are locked in conflict with messy physical realities. The crumbling of fantastic European infrastructure is mirrored by luxurious synthwave and ecstatic trance crumbling into nightmarish, corroded cyberscapes.

The songs on 'Bit Rot' create a wide variety of zones in which pleasure and discomfort come together organically and seamlessly. Even as these songs are eaten alive by oppressive atmospheres and destabilizing glitches they never lose sight of their strong melodic underpinnings. Tracks like 'Always On', 'Soft Body Hard Dreaming' and the terrifyingly intense title cut are like visits to a rave inside a paranoid microchipped brain, while 'Rubber Boy' presents electro-industrial funk sung by a caged mutant. On the more restrained tip, fluorescent ballads like 'Hollow' and 'Quiet Anger' evoke the feeling of slipping into a fugue state at an all-night convenience store. This is European nightlife imagined as biomechanical horror.

The album was mixed by Ville Haimala of fellow nordic club destroyers Amnesia Scanner, and the striking cover art features a sculpture by Norwegian artist Camilla Steinum. To further elaborate the album's themes in the visual realm the duo is creating a music video and live A/V show with 3D artist Guynoid, including a special latex suit made in collaboration with AGF Hydra. In this way, 'Bit Rot' grows beyond the album itself into a larger project exploring the fluidity of body and identity when the digital and the physical fuse as one.

Bit Rot

Soft as Snow - Pure Mood (IM094)

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released September 23, 2021
Cover art by Cristina Capetillo @criss90
SoundCloud Master por Santa Niña
Bandcamp and streaming Master por Norman Maldonado

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Bit rot

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Soft as Snow -  Always On

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Hollow

Tremor

Pregnant with Success is an ode to my mother, to all mothers, to anyone who's ever planted a seed, to anyone who's ever created something, to anyone who's ever waited patiently for something to come into fruition.

Pop for You (prod. by Shy Guy)

Christina Aguilera (Expanded Edition)

Genie In a Bottle

Pain Is Love

Always On Time (feat. Ashanti)

Hot Shot

Angel (feat. Rayvon)

Prod. by HM Surf

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Let me know you bout to babe
Beg for me and say my name 
And when you are I pull away 
And start that shit all over again 

(Hook)

Baby we can get messy as you want 
I wanna roll around in all your love 
You got impeccable taste. won’t waste a drop
Follow me to my room ya u can come 

Come x4
(With me)
 You got impeccable taste. Won’t waste a drop.
Follow me to my room yeah we can come.

 (Verse1)

You’re so close 
We’re so close 
You’re so close 
You’re so close to me 
I could drown although I could float bb 
Get the boat 
Baby you the goat to me 
River flow stickier than spilled honey 
Get the soap 
Need a little more 
Was there an explosion in here
Uh oh need a Gucci goggles n a winter coat 
Let me make it rain baby you can snow in me 
With the aim, gun cock n blow it baby 

Bilingual I been speaking in different languages 
Be like ouu papi 
Careful with the fuckin Hitachi 
You might cause a fuckin tsunami 
I aint got no fuckin rouge on me 
This aint NARS this how YOU got me

(Hook)

Baby we can get messy as you want 
I wanna roll around in all your love 
You got impeccable taste. won’t waste a drop
Follow me to my room ya u can come 

Come x4
(With me)
 You got impeccable taste. Won’t waste a drop.
Follow me to my room yeah we can come.

(Bridge)

Let me know you bout to babe
Beg for me and say my name 
And when you are I pull away 
And start that shit all over again 
X2

(Verse2)

I never tasted something so good 
From that same place 
I could do it again n again n again n again 
I’m just washing ya washing ya washing ya sins 

Pick ya target I know I where I want it 
Slippery when wet be careful where u walking 
I can’t stop it 
Cant control my body 
What the hell you doin to me

  
(Hook)

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