Club music culture necessarily shifted gears in many ways during and after the course of the pandemic. Older participants found their way into other interests and younger participants took new reigns to orient spaces they felt good inside of. The agenda for the music, and the cultural industry surrounding it at large, took a more frivolous and “fun” turn. Clubs needed to recoup lost money, people needed more refreshing catharsis for their nightlife escape, and in some pockets scattered around the globe a newer and younger cadre of producers/promoters/DJ’s pulled optical cues from a scattering of “darker” influences to give an alternate aesthetic to the aforementioned “vibes” culture. In the midst of this, a large polarization of conceptual energy shifted within the compositional and utilitarian machinations of the club music culture leaving behind the brooding and cerebral placeholders for a different kind of enjoyable hedonism. Terrestrial Paradise’ “Artificial Hell” harkens to another prescient time before that shift occurred. “Artificial Hell’ might just be an illustration of what all of this fun escapism encapsulates.

Terrestrial Paradise is the latest moniker from Montreal come Los Angeles based producer Jaclyn Kendal. Having developed and cemented her sonic positionality with releases on North American labels like Ascetic House and Summer isle over the years, as well as a series of monolithic live sets, Bank is pleased to announce Kendal’s Terrestrial Paradise first full length album “Artificial Hell”. Over the course of nine recordings, “Artificial Hell” gives a master class in pressurized industrial techno of the slower variety. Fitting with the legacy of Bank’s output since it’s inception, Terrestrial Paradise’s aesthetic sensibilities sit within the canon of a certain tinge of club music imbued with a sense of natural grit, sans pretense.

“Artificial Hell” nods to artists like Scorn, Regis, and 400 PPM while maintaining it’s own territory in the landscape of cerebral and brooding rhythmic techno. Ominous, mechanistic drones sit above succinctly exacted percussion composition and sound design. Throughout “Artificial Hell”, Kendal shows her proficiency with the push and pull of building and releasing tension. On tracks like “Salvation” and “Relativity” she melds her synth wash wallscapes with driving percussion, serving as both a hint and counterpoint to the the entirety of the latter part of the album taking on spartan ambient compositions as a way to keep the listener in a subdued stasis. This album is a statement piece from a long time participant in the North American underground music sectors. It reminds the listener through perilous, considered rhythms and darker drone impositions to cement themselves back into a place where not everything is always a good time.

Terrestrial Paradise - Western Ave (BNK-042)

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chicago, US

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Autogenesis - Terminus EP
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https://soundcloud.com/auto-genesis

Ancient echoes reflect off futurist forms.
A sonic portrait of the post anthropic figure.
Alien and intimate.

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https://autogenesis1er.bandcamp.com/album/terminus

Artwork by Xpearl
Video by niph
Mastered by Borg Queen at Syntonix

STPLNT009

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Steeplejack operates on Stolen land.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land.
We pay our respects to their elders past, present, and future.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

PREMIERE - Autogenesis - Mechanology

Autogenesis - Terminus EP

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https://soundcloud.com/auto-genesis

Ancient echoes reflect off futurist forms.
A sonic portrait of the post anthropic figure.
Alien and intimate.

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autogenesis1er.bandcamp.com/album/terminus

Produced by Autogenesis
Remixes by Zara https://soundcloud.com/zaraolsen and Obelisk https://soundcloud.com/obelisksydney
Artwork by Xpearl
Video by niph
Mastered by Borg Queen at Syntonix

STPLNT009

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Steeplejack operates on Stolen land.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land.
We pay our respects to their elders past, present, and future.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

Autogenesis - Terminus EP Sampler

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Release Date: 090424
Artist: SAM CLARKE
Courtesy of the Affix Broadcast Network

ABN110424 SAM CLARKE

Anti-Alias with Emma Rak - 04/04/2024

digital vandalism 

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A1 Kyvernovroxi
A2 Gefyra
A3 Scraping Off Wallz 
A4 Babyblue16

B1 Smoke Em
B2 Back2thefunK
B3 Forest Dealer
B4 Aksies 2 Dromou
B5 Smoke Em [LEDA Remix]
Kypseli Trading Center of Dreamz [DGTL eXtra] 

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https://zelaarchives.bandcamp.com/album/flokxistenz-zela004

FLÖKOSH - flokXistenZ [ZELA004]

produced by @boi_leeway

ltd dubplate edition (20 pcs) b/w Nebuchadnezzar 'Swimsuit Edition'
http://www.lost-domain.com/doma13-x

both tracks are from the forthcoming CD/DL compilation Dear Ghod (DOMA13)
http://www.lost-domain.com/doma13-cd

and the angels were repulsive_______

Leeway – Rushcutter

lostdomain

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