Ultra Lo-Fi rec of my set at Sanctuary, Denver. Thank you for having me!

Thorjn Live @Sanctuary, Denver 19062025

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from @glitch-dot-cool enfant terrible to unbound crooner, there are few more implacable, earnest and radically shifting entities in electronic music than Copenhagen’s @zack-christ - The 2024 EP 𐘲(𐘨)𐚎𐘲𐝥𐃀𐘡𐘴𐝂 evinced an archly disruptive approach to glitch music, gutting to the rubble of computational noise any expectations of a lofty ambience + waveform post-expressionism dyad, only to interject those same ambient climaxes whenever it was they would most sublimely strip a person to a soul. Then turned up this February’s Underbearing. Underbearing is miraculous. At times a confessional and exultant pop record, at others destructing any expectable structures of glitch and noise into a tableaux of sounds and shapes beyond categorization.

Zack’s mix is a mirror of the mind that produces this music. Contiguous are, and linked by an unquestionable emotional logic, chittering, stunted glitch and metal, grunge and chamber pop. Little is more important here than an openness of feeling. Genericity, associability, taxonomical means by which to synopsize an artist are disintegrated in the face sheerly of expression. Sequentiality, excusatory entrancement, the disappearance of the conductor into the comfiture of predictability - any such notions are evaporated in the reappearance of the conductor as an immediacy. I cannot not see the sparkle of an apotheosis of possibility because I am shown at every turn a music that is not simply sufficient but essentially contributive to an entirety of irreplicable beauty. And that is again where the conductor disappears - into the music that says all that is before these words and into all the afters they should never need to say. And something emerges like a person, disappearing and reappearing. Agleam in their disappearance and reappearance, and agleam in the states between.

As a final word, Zack wrote of the show -

With this mix I have attepted to curate:
The highest level of underground culture
Music that brings me joy
A few of my own tunes (including a little teaser at the end for my next record that drops on 19th September)

Tracklist:

zack christ - untitled
death's dynamic shroud - Just To Be Needed
AIHVHIA - Don't Get High Hopes
Chevron - Kingdom
Kaiji - Derming (Fm Shade Extract)
Tyondai Braxton - J. City
ZA! - Somos Todos
Untold - Sing a Love Song
Zhea Erose - NOXYLILITH
Mátyás Wettl - É
Thy Slaughter - O Fortuna
Vladislav Delay - Rakkine
Yvyy - Sommer Tempest
Tettix Hexer - Den Tetris der ikke aer en mus fanger ingen Rrrelguitar (zack christ remix)
Tettix Hexer, zack christ - Down The Gore Lore (KLASKET MIX)
zack christ - ID-WIP
Rustie - Black Ice Mudra
Napalm Death - You Suffer
OTTO VON SCHIRACH - Triangles (Live in Tokyo)
Schock Terapi - bonusbarn af sumfundet
Aidan Baker - Closure Axiom
Kaiji - MJUI
zack christ - MCDONALDS (feat. Feather Mountain)
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album

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Realist Alive Radio 016: zack christ

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I will open the ground beneath you
Let it swallow your voices first
Your words will choke you
Your tongues will blister in smoke

I will turn your blood to fire
Your hearts will beat in agony
Every pulse every scream
Every breath a confession

I will burn your homes from within
The walls will whisper your sins
The air will taste of metal
And your shadows will flee from you

I will make the night eternal
The sun will beg for mercy
The stars will turn away
And leave you blind in heat
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