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 II (PAN 83)

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Not your run-of-the-mill working-class Eastern European non-binary DJ. The producer, vocalist, but also visual and digital artist strives for innovative sound design and visceral body response, despite (or maybe coupled with) raw emotion that permeates their musical output. They’re a proud member of the Ciężki Brokat crew (with whom they run the annual Warsaw Pride official afterparty), co-creator of Radio Kapitał, Polish ambassador for Keychange and SHAPE Platform 2021 resident.

Their own music has morphed several times throughout the last 15 years – from industrial or purely synthetic timbres, through polyphonic singing with Pleśni to a perplexing fusion of rhythmically and sonically jagged compositions, bass-heavy club tracks on their EPs, 'Gusła (Human Rites)' on Tańce, a limited vinyl release on London-based 51-53 Records, 'Doolska' and the latest, more experimental 'Lamenty' EP.

They presented their music during numerous festivals (Unsound, CTM, Schiev, Up To Date, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Les Siestes Electroniques, Audioriver) and an assortment of clubs (including the legendary Berghain) in Poland and abroad (Berlin, London, Prague, Oslo, Copenhagen, Ljubljana). They remixed tracks by Kamp and Baasch, recorded mixes for Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, HӦR and CRACK, composed and created impromptu live music for interactive theatre plays: Method of National Constellations, quadraphonic sound for Jawić się, music for a Women’s Strike street theatre Manifesta and original score for Ideologix, a US-written and directed queer opera.

In the club their seventeen-year experience of supporting queer, anti-fascist and underground scenes results in an almost annoyingly disparate selection of the most forward-thinking sound offered by today’s scene. In their series of DJ-sets and club nights they blend unusual rhythmic patterns kicked up a notch with their improvised vocals.

Piece of Stone LP on Pointless Geometry Label:
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/bakblivv-piece-of-stone

Booking: bakblivv@gmail.com

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 
https://bakblivv.bandcamp.com/album/identity-cartographies

RESET$REALITY
http://bakblivv.bandcamp.com/album/reset-reality

'Atlas, activity and alternative reality' EP on @nawia
https://nawiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/naw03

𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 / 𝘂𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀

*2022*
25.11 Kinoteka PKIN, Warszawa
16.10 Unsound Festival 2022, Kraków
07.10 Spatif, Warszawa
24.09 Klub Pogłos, Warszawa /b2b Avtomat
13.08 Sanatorium Dźwięku Festival, Sokołowsko
29.07 Sharing Of The Fruits Festival, Pustynia Błędowska
15.07 Mazury Club Festival 
02.07 Lucyna Festival, Kacze Bagno
18.06 Święta Krowa, Kraków /b2b Nadezh No
17.06 Scena Berlin, Kraków
11.06 La Pose, Warszawa
04.06 Lokum Stonewall, Poznań
27.05 La Pose, Warszawa
19.05 Jasna 1, Warszawa
18.02 ᗰᗩᘔᑌᖇY ᑕᒪᑌᗷ: ᑕOᑎᔕEᑎᔕᑌᔕ, Warszawa
*2021*
05.11 Chmury, Warszawa
23.10 Lenin, Kraków
09.10 Komuna, Warszawa
24.09 Szpitalna 1, Kraków
18.09 Święta Krowa, Kraków
11.09 Marsz Równości w Katowicach 
25.08 - Destroy The Patriarchy, Sopot
21.08 Czuła jest noc, Wrocław
20.08 Duże Lokum Stonewall, Poznań
14.08 Szpitalna 1, Kraków
12.08 Boogaloo Beach Bar, Warszawa
08.08 Zaczarowany Ogród, Warszawa
06.08 Hotel Cracovia, Kraków
09.07 Święta Krowa, Kraków
03.07 Duże Lokum Stonewall, Poznań
28.05 Skład Solny, Kraków
*2020*
09.08 Hevre. Kraków
08.08 Święta Krowa, Kraków
24.06 NURT OPEN AIR 2020, Tyniec
18.07 Piękny Pies, Kraków
30.04 Święta Krowa, Kraków
18.04 BAL, Kraków
18.04 - COVID Room 3.0
19.03 BAL, Kraków
07.03 Hevre, Kraków
14.02 Baza, Kraków [LIVE]
17.01 Święta Krowa, Kraków [LIVE]
*𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗*
06.12 STK 47, Kraków
27.10 Święta Krowa, Kraków [HYBRID]
03.10 Avant Art Festival 2019, 999, Warszawa [LIVE]
06.09 BAL, Kraków
22.06 HEVRE, Kraków
20.06 Święta Krowa, Kraków
16.05 Secret Location, Kraków [LIVE]
10.05 HEVRE, Kraków
29.04 Jak Zapomnieć, Kraków
16.03 Warsztat, Kraków
16.02 Scena Supernova, Kraków

70% producer
30% dj

South of Tuscany
Founder w/ @benC of Shikkeria and her pulp side, Technosfranta

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org