https://rhunterrrr.bandcamp.com/album/dead-ambient
https://soundcloud.com/rhunterrrr
https://soundcloud.com/ububoi

Dead Ambient is organised chaos as electronic music — or perhaps more appropriately, bordering-on chaos. It's a continuous folding, then refolding, of recycled material into threads that twist around one another in a kind of linear collage — a brutal origami. You'd be hard-pressed to explain exactly what is occurring from moment to moment — pure repetition is scarce, and noticeably striking when deployed — but Dead Ambient doesn't suffer for this. There is a consistent logic to these arrangements and forms that doesn't feel overwrought, or laborious.

Be they composite facets of 'classic' ambient, corroded hi-def sound-design, net concrète, or more immediately identifiable vocal detours, all the materials are smoothed and contoured into vibrant passages. Certain segments hearken back to the sublime cacophony of Berlin’s Janus, while others call more to mind the textural fascinations of other producers operating out of ‘Australia’.

Those familiar with r hunter’s prior output will be treated to an upscaling of the scope toyed with on rrrrrrafael. For those of you who haven’t yet ventured into this territory, Dead Ambient easily sits outside the catchall musical connotations of both ‘death’ and ‘ambience’. There are clear allusions to the departed, be...  more
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released November 14, 2020

mixed by Asher R H Elazary and Joseph Buchan
mastered by Joseph Buchan
photography and design by Ed Dean
additional design by Asher
piano on "in retrospect" and "in perpetuity" by Ubu Boi
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100% of album sales from Dead Ambient will be donated to the Djab Wurrung Protectors Fund. The Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy is protecting sacred birthing trees on Djab Wurrung Country from a proposed VicRoads highway extension. Read more and support here:

chuffed.org/campaign/djab-wurrung-protectors-fund

www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/06/18/removal-sacred-djap-wurrung-trees-act-cultural-terrorism

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This record was made on the land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

r hunter - Dead Ambient

r hunter - in perpetuity (ft. ubu boi)

r hunter - in perpetuity (ft. ubu boi)

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