Gradually, the latest album by Julien Mier, is a sonic journey that delves into the transitions of life, identity, and the blurred boundaries between art and personal growth. With a trilingual brain, Mier reflects on how language shifts have shaped his sense of self throughout his life and the music that he writes. Gradually is his exploration of shapelessness—an urge to break free from rigid musical genres and get closer to his most fundamental expression. The album is composed of nine tracks, each representing a distinct cultural and linguistic influence, all tied together by the theme of gradual evolution.

The first section, Ciel, Soleil, and Espace (French for Sky, Sun, and Space), draws on Mier’s French heritage, evoking the feeling of childhood memories bathed in a warm, nostalgic glow. This fluid, atmospheric section mirrors the soft, ever-changing air, symbolising a time of pure, untainted intention. It feels like a hazy, sepia-toned dream, as fleeting and elusive as the scent of an old friend. The gentle flow of the music mirrors the flow of wind, effortlessly shifting from one element to the next, a reflection of the innocence and clarity of youth.

The second section, Steen, Zee, and Zand (Dutch for Stone, Sea, and Sand), channels the influence of Mier’s childhood in a small Dutch dune village. These tracks are grounded in the hard-edged textures of electronic dance music, a genre that introduced him to a world of rhythm and movement. With a sonic palette of blues, greys, and more defined shapes, this section captures the solid, enduring forces of nature—earth, water, and stone. It’s a sonic landscape rooted in stability, a foundation from which everything can grow. The tracks build from the fluidity of the first section into more structured, rhythmic territories, mirroring the natural transition from childhood innocence to the discovery of deeper, more grounded musical influences.

The final section, Scrap (a collaborative track with the Japanese producer Daisuke Tanabe), Soil, and Spark, dives into the exploration of the world beyond familiar borders. Mier’s relocation from the Netherlands to Australia in 2016 is reflected in these pieces, which grapple with the contrast and complexity of different cultures and environments. These tracks are tinged with rust-red hues and a sense of eroded beauty, evoking a more fragmented, distorted view of the world. The music here is marked by tension, conflict, and the erosion of once-solid forms—symbolic of the digital and ecological storms that shape our modern existence. The closing piece, Spark, signals a new beginning, a hopeful initiation into the cycle of renewal.

The album artwork for Gradually is a conclusive visual representation of this journey, captured in the final frame of an analog film roll that began in the Netherlands and concluded with an image of the streets of Sydney, Australia—a perfect metaphor for the album’s narrative of gradual transition and discovery.

For Julien, this new album marks a deeply personal return to his roots, is the culmination of six years of growth—both personal and artistic, and the first release under his real name during this period. Free from conceptual or genre limitations, the album is an intimate statement.
While releasing music as santpoort on the LA label Friends of Friends allowed him to explore a narrative, lo-fi identity, this release reconnects with the detailed, exploratory sound design that first put Julien Mier on the map. 

All music written and produced by Julien Mier (julienmier.bandcamp.com)
Recorded on unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, on whose land we meet sonically.
Additional performance by Daisuke Tanabe on track B3.
Mastered by Jack Prest.
Artwork by Aleix Font.
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Decay is a necessary and decisive process for the health of the human psyche.
Let what you once feared run through you. Take a new form; benefit from your primitive instinct. Fuck off what you think is unnecessary for your rebirth.

"Unnecessary" is the title of the second release on A Flooded Need. Previously tangled in the most slippery meanders of electronic music with strong punk and wave reminiscences, 1/2 of Hyperlacrimae alongside 11xxx27, @nocturnerror approaches this work in a totally different way. The six tracks of the EP, in fact, represent a melting pot of hybrid influences between audacious bass music, cinematic and cacophonic IDM, totally deconstructed techno - stripped of its dance component - and dirty rave jungle.

A1. And When That Day Comes
A2. Distressing Chrysalis
A3. Breaking Silence (Don't Keep Away the Gloom)
B1. So Useless / Zoe
B2. About a Pair of Female Assassins
B3. Dead Confessions (Three Times More)

CASSETTE / DIGITAL
Pro-Dubbed Tape, J-card 2 Panels, UV printing on tape.
Only 50 copies available.

Digital album + Cassette release February 13, 2020.

Unnecessary

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From the cassette/digital release "Ubiquitarchia" by Metadevice
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A quick follow-up to 2019’s Studies For a Vortex, composed during the quarantine months in Portugal. Gone are many of the “warmer” elements and the obvious human touches that comprised the full length debut, with no scrap metal, no drums, and no vocals outside of the occasional samples. In its place, we’re confronted with 8 tracks of cold, synthesized throb and terminally doomed electronic currents, threaded with crackling skuzz, shuffling debris, and ominous interference. It’s a stripped down and despondent recording, about the loss of what we have as human beings, our capability to feel, experience and create, and most certainly appropriate and befitting of current times.

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In the first episode: Evil Twin; science fiction narratives and manifestos lead their performance. Wide collage of emotions, a thought and imaginary that arises from the resignification of organic identities in order to confront the programmed sound and visual model. This time will be evil restless and breaks.

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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/11xxx27
Label: https://soundcloud.com/infidelbodies
Album: Black Market 
Format: Cassette/Digital
Release Date: December 21
Buy: https://infidelbodies.bandcamp.com/
11xxx27 returns on Infidel Bodies with a new tape release 'Black Market'.
A dense mix of noise/ambient textures and hints of primordial electronic sounds give birth to an EP with a strong isolationist and reflective character towards the current technological domination.
"Domination of technology" refers to the devious control of every aspect of our lives (social media, surveillance, data mining, fake news, etc.).
It is a controversial and aberrant space of confrontation where recognizing whether we are fruitors or slaves of technology becomes complicated.

Black Market is a mostly ambient/experimental album inspired by unusual combinations and spatial properties of audio.
Samplers, field recording, synthesizers and sound processing are the tools of 11xxx27, which engages in a subversive process to illustrate its vision of the modern world.
Mystics, LKSMN and Mod21 also take part in the project with featuring and reinterpretations, enriching the sound flow of Black Market.

Tracklist:
A1. At the end of time (Pleasure)
A2. Oblivion feat. Mystics
A3. Be the worst you can be feat. LKSMN [Tape Only]
A4. You make my skin crawl
A5. Driving me backwards
B1. Surgical mode (No feelings)
B2. At the end of time (Pleasure) (Mod21 version)
B3. Granular tears
B4. The day before I was born

IB013 - LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE
C-50 Tape Pro-Dubbed, J-card 2 panel, A5 insert,
Transparent box with electronic material + Stickers + Download code

credits:
Written and produced by Erminio Granata with the addition of collaborations with Davide di Bernardo, Pietro Rianna and Manuele Chiaravalloti.

Recorded between May 2018 and February 2019
Mastered at Red Dungeon (Naples)
Artworks by Flavio Ceriello
Layout and Cassette design by Erminio Granata

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