Trinity

Fontanel

kiCK iiiii

Fireprayer

Arca - Tapped In

You have trekked far. Your journey has brought many obstacles your way, but now is your true test. 
The path through the dense wild was treacherous, but your effort, determination, and wit have brought you this far.
The air around you becomes humid and dense as fog rolls in all around you. You hear the endless array of birds, crickets, frogs, and other forest creatures, whos sounds have become a familiar background, suddenly cease....
The setting sun had no chance at piercing this veil of darkness. 
You light up your torch in vain, hoping that any light would be better than no light, but your efforts feign sight.
An icy wind rushes over you. A chill settles in.
You trudge on. Blind. Silent. Cold.

An opening in the path leads to a clearing. You're only aware of the clearing because the shadows of the trees seem to spread further and further away from you. What was once a dense, brush-ridden trail, has become a field where the closest tree seems miles away.

The fog clears. 
Before you stands a monolith of stacked stone.
A huge gated door sits at the base of the behemoth.

"BEWARE COWARD!!!" A booming voice from above cries.

The door before you opens...

Enter The Dungeon

POTUS (prod. m27s)

Happy halloween!

Short improvisation played and recorded live on the Digitakt 2 through Analog Heat +FX.

Threatening Age

Arca's second in UNO's GIVEITAWAY series.

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://unonyc.com/giveitaway

Stretch 1 from Arca arrives April 19th

Arca - Truly Carrying

「2 Blunted」

Time

Arca - &&&&&
Format: LP (Special etched vinyl edition) / DL
Cat.No. PAN 100
Release Date: 18 September 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Arca
Fully remastered & first-time release of individual tracks

For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &&&&& was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an impending co-production credit on Kanye West’s Yeezus in 2013. It included cuts of sound and beats that were too weird for that pop project, while becoming a piece of experimental art that what would come to define what is by now broadly known as a ‘post-club’ sound. It’s music that is as visceral as it is experimental; made as much for the mind, as it is for the body.

Released with no warning seven years ago, &&&&& became a bridge between Alejandra Ghersi’s time partying and collaborating with her queer peers, while still living in New York to the next stage of her career releasing on Mute in London. She’d go from making beats for rapper Mykki Blanco and fashion label Hood By Air, posting lurching bass reworkings of pop hits on YouTube, and producing her first fluid mixtapes with DIS Magazine, to finishing off this seminal mixtape on the synths in Daniel Miller’s studio.

After dropping three impressive EPs the year before, &&&&& marked a transition. Continuations and extrapolations of material from Stretch 1 and Stretch 2 appeared in the mangled RnB sampling of “Century” and Arca’s signature vocal layering in the pitched flow of “Waste”. Along with the fluttering, muted heartbeat of “Obelisk”, and the lumbering piano chords of “Mother”, fourteen sonic sketches were elegantly woven together into a single, downloadable whole.

As Alejandra’s course turned toward moving to Europe from the United States, &&&&& became a remarkable challenge to the form of the mixtape, which was a relatively new trend taking hold of the online-oriented underground at the turn of the 2010s. But where many, if not most mixtapes where treated simply as a showcase of individual tracks presaging a more ‘official’ release to come, &&&&& was a complete piece in its own right. “I wanted to make something that was my best work,” Alejandra says about a record that has stood the test of time, “I listen to it very fondly today.”

Now, with the lifespan of the Arca project nearing a decade, Alejandra has entered a new era of ‘non-binary pop’ with her fourth album, KiCk i, out on XL Recordings. It’s more important than ever to look back while forging ahead, and &&&&&’s ground-breaking hybrid dance music is a good place to start:

“A sense of possibility, a sense of the unknown; punk attitude, respect for classical music and formality; cyberpunk, anime, sexual tension; trauma, innocence, fear of death; kink, lots of weed, and wanting to connect with people, but not on the terms of a status quo. That kind of sums up &&&&& for me.”

The release is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, with artwork by Jesse Kanda.

Arca - Tapped In

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