Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 83
Release Date: 5 April 2019
Buy: https://bit.ly/2OMcSsJ / https://bit.ly/2UivhmG

Lexachast is an ongoing collaborative work by Amnesia Scanner, Bill Kouligas & Harm van den Dorpel.

Initially birthed as a joint, improvised performance between Amnesia Scanner and Kouligas at the ICA, London in 2015, it was later recreated and extended with visual artist van den Dorpel into a 15-minute online-only audiovisual work – known simply as Lexachast.

Since then, it has expanded into a live show that has been performed at Transmediale, CTM Festival, Unsound Krakow & Adelaide, Next and LEV Festival and during Paris Fashion Week in collaboration with the brand Ottolinger. Now to be released on PAN, is a new document of Lexachast in its current, full-grown form.

Whilst broadly inspired by the experience derived from and exposure to algorithmic patterns as generated by visual artist Harm van den Dorpel’s specially-devised program, the work is a sonic reference to the fallouts of avant-EDM and cyberdrone. This in turn is simultaneously mirrored by the perturbing visuals, created by a unique algorithm that sources and blends various filtered imagery from DeviantArt and Flickr in real time – with a bias towards the NSFW, extreme banality, and ornamental melancholia. The results were a perfect fit for the deliberate intention of non-intent, an anti-video of sorts, which ended up as a defining element for the project.

The artwork is created with Harm van den Dorpel’s ever-evolving, image-sourcing algorithm and it is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin

Lexachast

Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas - Lexachast V (PAN 83)

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Piece of Stone LP on Pointless Geometry Label:
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Across the course of three chaotic EPs, Polish DJ and producer Bakblivv has made a name for himself infusing pop motifs with ballroom's unmistakable queer thump and the heaving post-industrial sonics of deconstructed club music. Driven by excitement, celebration and ecstasy, Bakblivv uses complex sound design to break down the boundaries between genres, and maintains the energy of his production work in his freewheeling DJ mixes, finding a common language between vastly different modes of expression.

Previously hosting radio show INTRAKCJE at @radiokapital -> https://radiokapital.pl/shows/intrakcje/

identity cartographies 
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RESET$REALITY
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'Atlas, activity and alternative reality' EP on @nawia
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30% dj

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