Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 96
Release date: 7 September 2018
pre-order album: bit.ly/2JxE61G / bit.ly/2uxWLWx

'Another Life' is the debut album from Amnesia Scanner, the Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala.

Founded in 2014, Amnesia Scanner's approach is informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience. System vulnerabilities, information overload and sensory excess inform their work, which has found a home in both clubs and galleries.

Building on their mixtape 'AS Live [​]​[​]​[​]​[​]​[​]' (2014), Amnesia Scanner’s critically acclaimed audio play 'Angels Rig Hook' (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young Turks, 'AS' and 'AS Truth' (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools. The most striking detail of ‘Another Life' is Amnesia Scanner's use of both human and inhuman voices. The latter is provided by the latest addition to the production unit, a disembodied voice called Oracle, which represents the sentience that has emerged from Amnesia Scanner.

Oracle's vocal performance ranges from exuberant mania to anxious dread and beyond. Coupled with the pop song structures that Amnesia Scanner employs for the first time, the avant-EDM productions of ‘Another Life’ evocatively explore a schizophrenic present marked by narratives of a slow apocalypse or salvation via technology. Indeed, the lullaby of 'AS Another Life' swings between trill hope and casual threat, lending a precarious gait to the song's staggering rhythm. The album's first single, 'AS Chaos', is its most powerfully direct track, with Pan Daijing’s English and Mandarin vocals taking over for Oracle. At its peak intensity, as in ‘AS Faceless’, Amnesia Scanner's doombahton overheats into nu-metal-gabba.

Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. They collaborate with PWR Studio for their design and visual direction. The AS live experience is co-created with Stockholm-based Canadian designer Vincent De Belleval. When unplugged from the Amnesia Scanner stream, Haimala works as a composer and producer with a wide range of musical and visual artists, and Kalliala co-directs the think tank Nemesis.

The album is mastered by Jeremy Cox, featuring photography by Satoshi Fujiwara, and visual direction from PWR Studio.

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Another Life

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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