Pretty Chill

Las Wolski is @alexrainer + @lethatechnique

Las Wolski

Alex Rainer

Lethatechne

Las Wolski is @jordasz + @lethatechnique.

Manipulated recording of drums and bass made at Studio Savant in Kraków, late 2011, that was unused for a Hobo Codes song.

"Lethatechne, or, Forget the Rock & Roll" on Lethatechnique: http://bit.ly/1JZVasB


Fancy Success

"Lethatechne, or, Forget the Rock & Roll" on Lethatechnique: http://bit.ly/1JZVasB

30-036

Manipulated/processed guitar + vox by @alexrainer

Las Wolski - White Plains Hound

Buttoned-Up

You roll a 4 on random.org: the sound of a solar energy generator in the year 2044.

You walk into the kitchen to the window that gets the most sunlight: she is making lunch and remarks that there is a lot of sun today. Open the door to the pantry: in the corner is the generator’s heliosonic space. It is a small machine but through its tubes and flux capacitors flow all of your necessary stellar bursts. Kneel down to read the current levels: the generator’s tones are vigorous today. The clouds roll in and out, the thick street trees waver: the generator flutters. The hallway light is switched on: the generator beeps again. You grab a jar of pickles off the shelf: stand listening and frozen with the desire for light. You leave the pantry and close the door: back into a vision of the only sun.

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More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Gizmodo Home of the Future at:

http://homeofthefuture.gizmodo.com/


Memory of the Future: Solar Energy Generator (disquiet0123-homeofthefuture)

The Upsetter (Mogwai Remix by J Cummings)

Beat 3

Calgary

The complexification for this project was based in the collaborative process between @alexrainer and @lethatechnique (aka Las Wolski): sitting down together late Saturday afternoon in the middle of a Central European heat wave, deciding on samples to use, wielding Ableton Live and a Korg nanoKontrol with four hands, meshing processed samples of the distant "Complexification" tracks with local field recordings, deciding on pitch shifting and resonator notes and beat repeats, digressions into discussing the tritone (“the Devil’s interval”) and initial impressions of "Making Music" by Dennis DeSantis, figuring out how to finalize while keeping the track short and varied, and trying to stay hydrated. Break for a walk to Corner Burger in Kazimierz and for Żywiec Białe throughout the evening. The result is a short slice of sinister heat wave dub.

Manipulated beats from the beginning, bell-like synth sounds from the middle, and scattershot percussive sounds from the end of “Complexification0010GB." Added field recordings of a drunk singing down ulica Chodkiewicza, a random streetside whip-slapshot sound, and some revelers toasting at Forum Przestrzenie. Counter-balanced the whip-slapshots with a recording of a big ole China cymbal from the previous week’s drum session at Studio Savant. Threw “Complexification0010SH” into Ableton’s Granulator for another instrument to generate complex textures.

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More on this 188th Disquiet Junto project (“Take a provided track and make it more complex”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/06/disquiet0188-complexcomplex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

More on Complexification:

http://entracte.co.uk/projects/guy-birkin–sun-hammer-e187/

Ul. Chodkiewicza Summer Rips (disquiet0188-complexcomplex)

Las Wolski is @alexrainer + @lethatechnique.

Las Wolski - Two Bolt

Deeply loveable Parisian label Antinote has been blurring music's lines since their 2012 conception, with the diverse releases that have prospered from their base within the city's 11ème arrondissement walls. Not one given selection from Antinote's vaults has made for dull listening – from Iueke's cassette-only techno and Geena's explosive house, to Syracusee's soda pop and the frank exploration of human fragility in Nico Motte's Life Goes On If You Are Lucky.

Antinote now welcomes back the versatile DJ, producer and experimentalist, D.K. (Dang Khoa Chau), for his second release with the imprint, Island of Dreams. D.K.'s self-ascribed aesthetic influences come from 1980s and 1990s digital culture – Super Nintendo, American teen movies on VHS, Daryl Hall and John Oates on MTV – these of which he transposes into a musical idiom of dated synth melodies, power keyboard chords, tropical drum machine rhythms and raw bass lines. These are exhibited comprehensively on today's Debut, and the only house-y tip of the record, "Raindrops". A feel-good track totally retrospective in nature, "Raindrops" tails off the synthetic, virtu-real world of D.K.'s Island of Dreams with the utmost satisfaction.

D.K.'s Island of Dreams drops on March 4th. 

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D.K. "Raindrops" - Boiler Room Debuts

Las Wolski - How To Win (When You're Sitting Back)

Las Wolski - Centraal

“One can only arrive at the experience of the transcendental – if it is reached at all – when one is oneself in a position of un-knowing, that is, of humility; namely, while remaining in the world of technê he or she begins to venerate a certain kind of experience, acquires it, makes it one’s own, realizes it, sustains it, repeats it – without burdening its sense, its essence with its own great questions.” - László Krasznahorkai, “The Acropolis in Sunglasses”