Not Our Place To Question Why

"Unearthing Buried Chapters" album is due via Amek Collective & Etheraudio Records on May 12. 

TRACKLIST •
001 Set Forth with one blessing 
002 A Heart with no Instructions feat Mariya 
003 Pursuit For Those With Kindness
004 Our Choices Are Pre Paid
005 A Prophecy keeps hope alive 
006 Scars Beyond The Reminders Of Pain 
007 Knowing Your Limitless Potential 
008 Atoms Gasping For Oxygen 
009 Can’t Erase Your Mistakes 
010 Landscape of the construction.

❑ Written and recorded by Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov
❑ Mastering by Ivan Shopov at Etheraudio Records
❑ Artwork by Ivan Shopov
❑ Label: Amek

Pre-order on vinyl & digital from: https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Knowing Your Limitless Potential [Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov]

The movement of historical time is catalyzed by the cycles of production that constitute our social totality. When these cycles and this linear march entwine and lose any semblance of mutual control, their inexorable trajectory is towards rupture. Emergent cycles of higher complexity and abstracted alienness to those of us subjected to them exacerbate the very dynamic from which they were borne, but offer the only way out: fracture.

Released through Abstrakt Reflections. Click the "buy" link for free download.

Fracture Cycles

Endlessly Tangent Cycles (CLAUDE Remix)

Thorn & Water

My entry for the @anthony-baldino Twelve Twenty Two remix contest, hosted by @methlab-recordings. Unfortunately my entry did not win, but I had a lot of fun making this track. 

Congratulations to @romanowitch, whose track I had the privilege of listening to before the winners were announced. It is absolutely fantastic and I look forward to its official release.

Anthony Baldino - Twelve Twenty Two (Man From Sol re-glitch)[Free Download]

When I Think

This EP was entirely written and recorded in the cable kingdom of bleeps and bloops in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria during their tradition of Martenitsa. While Ivan Shopov was working on his project Kanatitsa with Avigeya, Valance Drakes was into a rookie year for Amek, working on the collab LP with Ivan and working on his debut album for the label (An Angel In Alliance With Falsehood).

“Much love goes out to my brother Ivan Shopov for the art piece, mastering and doing a remix for the project” – Valance Drakes

https://www.abstraktreflections.net/releases/valance-drakes-not-taking-this-gratitude-for-granted/

Valance Drakes - Instinct Will Never Betray You

My friend @Poztman asked me if I wanted to remix a track in his upcoming album. I got weird with it.

Check out the buy link to download or stream the original, this tune, and the absolutely sick remix by my friend @Abroxis.

Art by the brilliant @Daturahex

Poztman - Majestic Miasma (Man From Sol Remix)

"Larger than the will of any individual, the totality of modern human society is simultaneously one constituted by our actions yet also a gestalt entity obeying an emergent logic of its own. Constellations of processes and events act in discordant symphony largely blind to each other, while together they constitute a distributed machine serving solely itself at the price of human abjection. Conceivable solely as an abstraction, but concrete to the very core of human objectivity, this totality is profoundly human in origin but absolutely alien to our needs. Its very shape is contingent upon the trajectory of history from which it emerged, a trajectory which is now dislodged and savagely dragged along as the totality cycles itself blindly forward in time, obeying nothing other than the immanent logic of capital. Ignorance of totality matters not to it, as those who possess knowledge of its contours are no less objects to its continual unfolding. 

The horizon of its trajectory offers a fractal vision of futures such as ecological collapse, mass refugee crises, escalating pandemics, genocide, and more. Like the shards of a kaleidoscope, these morph in and out of each other, their causes and consequences all intertwined with the horrors of this perpetual unfolding of global capitalism. To grasp this all as a human is to accept it, for there is little else one can do." (Man From Sol)

https://soundcloud.com/man-from-sol

Gestalt Logic Constellation

We’re very proud to present you our “10 Years” anniversary compilation.
Abstrakt Reflections / 2010 – 2020 / Release #100

Featuring: Valance Drakes, Flint Kids, closeyoureyes, Ivan Shopov, Amotken, Zohell, Blockdata, Metalogue, Man From Sol, c0ma, Hypercube, Lokom, Zeuge, Michael Valentine West, mōshonsensu, ZZY, Broken Thoughts & Vladimir Belayev.

https://www.abstraktreflections.net/releases/va-10-years/

Not Our Place To Question Why

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