Rituals

PAINT 'Exodus' EP
Release Date: 18th August 2017
Label: 20/20 LDN
Format: 12" Vinyl // Digital
Cat No: 2020LDN007

A progressive electronic duo, formed in 2016 by seasoned beatsmith Tsuruda (Darker Than Wax, Team Supreme, Division) and experimental artist Huxley Anne (Dome of Doom/Alphapup), PAINT incorporates all aspects of both member’s creativity. The duo was inspired as the two were coming up in the LA beat scene, often adding visual elements to their live performances while writing genre-defying songs in the studio. Their style draws largely on abstract hip-hop, jazz, bass, and grime influences, but unites these elements into seamlessly painted soundscapes that stand out in the modern sea of electronic music. Their powerful rhythms, colored nuances, and expressive lead synth tones ignite in the PAINT live show, where you can often find the duo mashing custom visuals together while spinning tracks back to back.

“After years of writing together under our solo aliases, this EP has solidified a creative purpose—unifying musical production with a visual aesthetic to elevate electronic music into the realm of art. It also serves a social purpose, placing a man and a woman on equal footing within a technical environment where women are scarcely represented. Fighting against both genre and gender constructs drives our forward-thinking energy inside the musical structure.

When 20/20 LDN approached us about writing an EP, we were ecstatic. They’ve created a platform we value for both the visual aesthetic and their fearlessness in bridging genres within electronic music. For us, working with Ivy Lab on this release is directly in line with our goals of defying genre constructs in order to create art that lives beyond contemporary confines.

This EP is an intellectual apex for us, seeking to defy genres from within their technical and stylistic constructs. By combining sound design techniques from European bass music with the rebellious energy of the LA beat scene, we’ve entered a musical landscape that is not yet defined. The EP’s title, Exodus, represents our departure from genre-based music, opening up a new environment where sound design, aesthetic, synthesis, and culture have become modular tools for exploring the future of electronic production."
- Tsuruda & Huxley Anne

Tracklist:
1. Beast Mode
2. Gaiden
3. Exodus
4. Reverie

https://soundcloud.com/paintofficial
https://paintofficial.bandcamp.com
https://2020ldn.com

Contact Benjamin Smith for more information
ben@echoempire.net // 077 6492 6719

Paint "Exodus" [2020LDN007]

PAINT 'Exodus' EP
Release Date: 18th August 2017
Label: 20/20 LDN
Format: 12" Vinyl // Digital
Cat No: 2020LDN007

A progressive electronic duo, formed in 2016 by seasoned beatsmith Tsuruda (Darker Than Wax, Team Supreme, Division) and experimental artist Huxley Anne (Dome of Doom/Alphapup), PAINT incorporates all aspects of both member’s creativity. The duo was inspired as the two were coming up in the LA beat scene, often adding visual elements to their live performances while writing genre-defying songs in the studio. Their style draws largely on abstract hip-hop, jazz, bass, and grime influences, but unites these elements into seamlessly painted soundscapes that stand out in the modern sea of electronic music. Their powerful rhythms, colored nuances, and expressive lead synth tones ignite in the PAINT live show, where you can often find the duo mashing custom visuals together while spinning tracks back to back.

“After years of writing together under our solo aliases, this EP has solidified a creative purpose—unifying musical production with a visual aesthetic to elevate electronic music into the realm of art. It also serves a social purpose, placing a man and a woman on equal footing within a technical environment where women are scarcely represented. Fighting against both genre and gender constructs drives our forward-thinking energy inside the musical structure.

When 20/20 LDN approached us about writing an EP, we were ecstatic. They’ve created a platform we value for both the visual aesthetic and their fearlessness in bridging genres within electronic music. For us, working with Ivy Lab on this release is directly in line with our goals of defying genre constructs in order to create art that lives beyond contemporary confines.

This EP is an intellectual apex for us, seeking to defy genres from within their technical and stylistic constructs. By combining sound design techniques from European bass music with the rebellious energy of the LA beat scene, we’ve entered a musical landscape that is not yet defined. The EP’s title, Exodus, represents our departure from genre-based music, opening up a new environment where sound design, aesthetic, synthesis, and culture have become modular tools for exploring the future of electronic production."
- Tsuruda & Huxley Anne

Tracklist:
1. Beast Mode
2. Gaiden
3. Exodus
4. Reverie

@paintofficial
paintofficial.bandcamp.com
2020ldn.com

Contact Benjamin Smith for more information
ben@echoempire.net // 077 6492 6719

Paint - "Gaiden" - [NEST HQ Premiere]

Full stream of PAINT's mind-bending cut "Beast Mode," from their forthcoming EP on 20/20 LDN. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/08/premiere-hear-a-mind-bending-new-cut-from-paint/

@paintofficial
@2020ldn

Exodus EP

More info

Premiere: PAINT - Beast Mode

Daniel Fury - Closing Arguments

shell of light edit

Day n night jobot

You wake up. You take a shower. You get dressed. You get out of your apartment. You run to the station. You catch your train. You get to work. You talk to your boss. You smile to your clients. You return emails. You return favors. You return compliments. You return home. You are tired as shit and go to bed.

You wake up. It's Saturday. Breathe.
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Released February 2019 - Emergency Oxygen EP
https://soundcloud.com/emergency-oxygen/sets/emergency-oxygen
https://www.facebook.com/emergencyoxygen

Awakening

I was wondering what were these shadows bouncing on the wall. They were in tempo, they were in tune, they were just in my mind.

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Released February 2019 - Emergency Oxygen EP
soundcloud.com/emergency-oxygen/sets/emergency-oxygen
www.facebook.com/emergencyoxygen

Bouncing Shadows

Don't be a spectator of your own life.

Lyrics by Emergency Oxygen, vocals by Redwood.

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I thought about a trip to an intimate place
Trying to  pick within a million escapes 
Butterflies winding around me in flows of colors
More that I could see
More than I would seek

I had no watch and that was not a day to buy one
Not a day to make a point, not a day to make a difference
Not a day to shine or fall into your arms
Not a day to argue whatever you believe is worth 
Not a day

Kids busy playing around, time running slowly
Melon sun and creamy smoke trails in the sky
I can’t tell if I ever tasted this flavor before 
Or if it comes from someone else’s childhood

There was this group of old men looking at the crowd with gentle faces
And I wished the air could carry their thoughts over to me
Their fears, their pride, their lies
I wonder how does the world look through their eyes

I lied down relaxed and confident
Thinking was irrelevant
Soaking in the green, staring at the blue
And the earth washing my last thoughts away

I felt lighter and I realized I had lost contact with the ground
Free from my roots, my body was elevating
Nothing was keeping me down there anymore
Things had never felt that well in order

There were these air balloons ascending at my pace
And thousands of tiny comets rushing up the sky 
A calm wind across my hair and clement sunbeams
I had never been in this place before

But before I noticed   earth was nothing more than a dot on the horizon
The light weakened, it was warm and peaceful
I had never been in this place before
And I will never be coming back

Butterflies are gone
I didn’t see them dispersing
I missed the chance to ride
And now the door is open

We fly over space at 18 miles per second
We run, we jump, we fall and we get back on our feet
We make money we make friends we make love
We search, we discover, we change our mind, we change our plan
We raise kids we raise walls to break them later
Always building, always destroying
Breaking apart, breaking out, burning out
Your flesh, your guts, your brain are rotting out in a little box
You’re connected to networks that you never explored
You are alone and so are your billions of brothers
Trying to share, dying to shine

There is no time to achieve your desire
There is no meaning to your heartbeat
There is no place where you belong 
No There is no hand to hold along 

We fly over space at 18 miles per second
We run we jump we fall we run we fall
We sent a probe on a 6 years trip to Saturn
And it kept sending pictures from a billion kilometer away
We found remedies and cure diseases

We see more than our eyes can see
We hear more than we can hear
There are thousands of people traveling across the sky, suspended in the air, right now

From where I stand earth is no more than a dot on a blackboard
From where I stand earth is no more than a dot
From where I stand earth is no more

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Released February 2019 - Emergency Oxygen EP
soundcloud.com/emergency-oxygen/sets/emergency-oxygen
www.facebook.com/emergencyoxygen

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