"Patterns" installation opening May 14th 2016 7-10pm at SIGNAL, 260 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

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Swiss artist Wildlife! may be best known to the Mixpak audience as a producer adept in exploring the outer fringes of dancehall-tinged club music, but his larger story is one deeply rooted in a wide-ranging, lifelong exploration of sound. After years of touring his own soundsystem and studying audio engineering, he turned his hand to production, making leftfield riddims with Jamaican artist Terry Lynn, straight-up club productions as Wildlife!, and releasing two full albums under his experimental electronic music moniker, Young Palace. In 2015, he finished up his MA in contemporary arts practice (where his concentration was acousmatic music and sound installation), and has since had sound installation work featured in gallery exhibitions worldwide.

“Patterns” is Wildlife!’s first official release for Mixpak and undeniably his most uncompromising record to date. It is a 7-track examination of the principles and constraints of club music - a series of experiments with divergent ideas of rhythm, bass and sound design. Often dark and unsettling, “Patterns” is made up of untrustworthy rhythms, a heavily industrial sound palette and machinic melody evocative of dystopian sci-fi. It is club music broken down into its various components and then deliberately reconstituted into something new. His process here is like that of a delicate sculptor crafting intricate interlinked pieces, yet the results assault the senses with blunt force. Ultimately, “Patterns” is a carefully considered sonic world that encapsulates Wildlife!’s interests and ethos - dexterously testing the boundaries of where sound becomes music and music dissolves into sound.

On May 14th, Wildlife! invites you to experience the record in a physical space, by translating "Patterns" into an immersive sound installation at SIGNAL Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The site specific installation is in collaboration with artist collective Nitemind (who have previously worked with Korakrit Arunanondchai and Tim Hecker) and visual artist Jesse Hlebo.


Patterns

Wildlife! - N° 005

Dumuzi's Dream

@ikotu on the keys and bass
kaya ep /// --->  http://bit.ly/2uNoiEr
cover art by kokoschka

i likeylikedat

12HOLY HOURS

funky 17/18 rhythm study.
yes, it's Big-L backwards.

Smoking Big

fiery 13/14 rhythm study.
look at 'em planty lips
let your ass groove to this... just feel it!
don't try to understand it

Mother of Riddims

more music: https://ndru.bandcamp.com
contact: ndru.music@gmail.com

Discovering new territories of rhythm and bass music fusing everything that the palette of dub, dubstep, trap, drum'n'bass, juke and percussion heavy experimental music has to offer.

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg participating in the sound experiments of DAF (Dynamische Akustische Forschung: https://daf.adbk-nuernberg.de), the project-based sound class of Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars).

Mother of Riddims

N'dru

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