Sylvan Esso

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Taken from the debut album out now.

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Play It Right

On May 5th we will release the debut EP from New Zealand based Shunkan - the guise of the extremely talented and exciting Marina Sakimoto.

Just 20 years old, her debut EP 'Honey, Milk and Blood' is a melting hotpot of sounds and influences. From the yelps of Karen O, the song writing intricacies of Tegan and Sara, the heartfelt chugging pop songs of Waxahatchee to the shoe gaze soundscapes of My Bloody Valentine - its all here.

The 5 track EP will be released on cassette, limited to 50 and housed in fold out card artwork similar to our long sold out Best Friends/Grazes split..

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Shunkan - Dust in Your Eyes

four shadows fall across my shoulder
and go sliding through a crack of something older

to be able in the sunshine
to be able in the way that I’m not now


able in the sunshine

written by jacob richards
nathan bickart- keys
jacob richards- drums
recorded at peach fuzz studios, 2014
mixed by graybus jones


brush dust

Radiant Love

Premiere: Brown Irvin - Bay Fog

‘If + When’ Out Now -
Big Dada / Stream / Download: https://johnkeek.lnk.to/ifSO

Taken from ‘If + When’ released 27th October 2017 via Big Dada.

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If + When

By Your Side (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow & Reinier Baas)

@peace-to-mateo - "Bouquet" 
A collection of hip-hop beats from the past year. Best enjoyed on cassette.

Download/get the cassette: https://peacetomateo.bandcamp.com/album/bouquet

Track List:
1. Yellow Jacket
2. Juggernauts 
3. Light Pool
4. Harsh Rain
5. Art School
6. Sweller
7. Just a Little
8. Dream Cruise
9. Day After Today
10. Bouquet

All songs produced by Peace To Mateo in Detroit, MI for Young Heavy Souls & YHS Cassettes 
Mixed and sequenced by Matt Black at YHS HQ 
Mastered by Eddie Logix at Assemble Sound 
Artwork by Matt Black

Bouquet

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Peace To Mateo - Bouquet (Album Stream)

‘Sentience’ - the human capacity to feel, perceive and experience subjectively; in distinction to the ability to think (reason).

In response to the growing extension of Artificial Intelligence into areas like musical creativity, this polychromatic composition uses music technology as an assistant to the human imagination. This approach is in contrast to different varieties of creativity which use technology to generate musical elements for human editing and arrangement.

Rapidly advancing technology is leading to the replacement of more human activities while also modifying human involvement into roles as assistant, support and maintenance in service to technology. In many respects, because of the digitization/quantization of musical elements in MIDI, music is at the forefront of this trend as we see the impacts of technological replacement of musicians and more recently, songwriters.

Music and art express a different kind of knowledge, intelligence and experience from that of scientific, logical, and mathematical areas.

‘Artificial Intelligence’ is, at best, a simile or metaphor for awareness. Understanding of meaning and relevance are beyond its computational framework, which can, with increasing sophistication, display mere imitations of unquantifiable processes of mind.

As AI amasses ever-increasing quantities of information, hierarchically organized and structured through programmed algorithms, the conception of ‘artificial intelligence’ is being extended into similes of ‘consciousness’ and ‘creativity’. This idea seems to presume that increasing quantities of information somehow transform into (or become a surrogate for) awareness and the meaningful understanding and expression of sentient qualities. In contrast to the statistical idea of ‘quality’ of information, ‘qualities’ are based in sentience - subjective awareness, perception, experience, meaning and emotional expression - as well as intelligence.

Recently, IBM’s Watson (AI computer), Google’s Magenta Project, and Sony’s Flow Machines software have been promoted as ‘composing’ music, and as demonstrating musical ‘creativity’. They accomplished this artistic simile by compiling musical data and analyzing the data by given rules (logic, forms and patterns of musical expression), then producing variant combinations under algorithmic control. Maybe a better characterization of this AI process would have been a ‘generative variation’ of musical forms and patterns.

While a remarkable technological advancement, this generative process of AI music is fundamentally different from a human creative process based in empirical understanding, and subjective meanings associated with musical expression. The human creative process in composition uses musical languages to express aspects and qualities of human sentience.

Musical meaning and relevance have always been immersed in a context of time and place, of subjective and collective awareness, aspirations and concerns. In our era, human music and art, while seemingly under threat of replacement and obsolescence to AI, are in a position to clarify the distinction and capacities of human ‘sentience’ and artificial ‘intelligence’. And in this process, hopefully help us gain a deeper awareness of both, balanced in application, as synergetic rather than competing processes.

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jacob richards

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