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The November 2021 edition of my radio show on Evosonic, first broadcasted on November 16.
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The show is live on air every third Tuesday here: wwwevosonic.de/live

"Kölner Wohnzimmer" Mathias Schaffhäuser's November 2021 Charts Show on Evosonic Radio

〜 Taken from Debit's album 'The Long Count', out via Modern Love on Feb 18th 2022 〜

Delia Beatriz’s musical output straddles two distinct artistic poles; her debut solo album, 2017’s acclaimed “Animus”, oozed from sensual, beatless soundscapes to high-octane club music, while her 2019-released EP “SYSTEM” harnessed tribal guarachero elements while simultaneously scraping ideas from industrial techno. 

On “The Long Count”, the Mexican-American producer has inked her most rigorous statement to date, sublimating opaque ancestral knowledge into vaporous AI-stirred fog banks, activating an ancient rite that reaches into tomorrow. It’s audacious electro-acoustic archaeology that sounds disorientating, anachronistic and arcane.

“The Long Count” is rooted in research Beatriz made into Mayan wind instruments – whistles, ocarinas, flutes and trumpets – using the archive of the Mayan Studies Institute at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the oldest and largest collection of its kind. Developing a set of digital instruments that could be played using different types of temperaments and scales, Delia processed these sounds using machine learning techniques to shuttle the distant past into our extant artistic universe, peering into Mexico’s pre-colonial history and weaving those ideas into complex tonalities gleaned from musique concrète and contemporary electro-acoustic music.

The ten tracks of ‘The Long Count’ form a ritual that’s a few footsteps out of time – neither a part of our present, nor the past. Beatriz describes the Mayan instrumentation as ancestral technology, part of a world that’s not so much been forgotten, but purposefully erased. And although it’s impossible to know exactly how Mayan music may have sounded, it’s feasible to converse with history using modern technology to conduct a ceremony of remembrance.

Beatriz’s soundscapes are haunted by indistinct, shared memories and centuries of pent-up emotion, and are as intentional, direct and meticulously crafted as the work of Deathprod or Thomas Köner. Her microtonal compositions are psychedelic to their core, shapeshifting through dimensions and painting complex mental images, while retaining a stylistic focus and lucidity that’s all too rare. Although “The Long Count” was nurtured by machines, human experience is coded into its DNA – an ancient-future heirloom that whispers through countless generations.

File under magick concrète.

All tracks written, produced & mixed by Delia Beatriz
Additional Machine Learning for Audio by Isomov
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Album Art Photography & Creative Direction by Debit
AI Album Art by Moisés Horta Valenzuela

The Long Count

Debit - 2nd Day

Great selection of tracks curated by DJ Hell for Mexican Radio Station Beat 100.9 FM

Dj Hell for Beat 100.9 FM, Mexico 04.03.2022

Shrimps of Life (Strings of Life/Derrick May) unf loop

Hot Room Linda Lamb Tiga Remix

Mando Diao - Black Saturday (Starstruck Remix)

arranged with ableton live, played on a nord electro 6d

Moderat//Bad Kingdom (Keyroll)

Eine Aufnahme vom Celebrate Life Festival ohne die Tentakel.
Am Anfang Peng alleine mit Gitarre, der erste Song ist eher so ein Insiderscherz mit dem CelebrateLife festival. (es ist ein eher spirituelles Festival) Dann kommen irgendwann Vier schöne Menschen hinzu die ich am Tag vorher kennengelernt habe die mit mir zusammen weitere Songs spielen. (Oboe, akkustikgitarre, akkustikbass, cajon und beatboxer)Das war gerade wegen der spontanität ein schöner Abend der irgendwie ausuferte. Es hat großen Spass gemacht. Hinten wird es immer abstruser aber auch epischer. 
Die ungefähre Reihenfolge:
CelebrateLife-song; Gedicht; Es ist; Oha (nur das Ende); Sie mögen sich; Sockosophie; Parantatatam; Kündigung2.0; Kugelschlucker; verkackter Freestyle; Keine Ahnung; DerAnfang ist Nah; Flotten von Mutanten

Shrimps of Life (Strings of Life/Derrick May) unf loop

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