ouroboros

When I aim at the sun
Eyes that never blink
When there's nowhere to run
Hair smothered in ink
A choked escape, forever home
Faith in fainted memories
But at last,
We Meet In Reverie

We Meet In Reverie

Hunt - Growing Thin From Reaving

wish @ NINA (live)

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Scorpions, Bats & Spiders (PAN 139)

pre-war club-only sketch that i made to feel less awkward playing to actual dance music crowds, never intended for a release

Famous Eyes (Live 2021)

Thirty-fifth Cime show on @radio80000

w/ @victoirevital (00:00:00 - 00:29:47)

Softworld & twinflamegirl - dadaduu
Scotch Rolex - The Eleventh Voyage
Christian Coiffure - Thorns of Reminder
ASDA - Killer of Men
Amnesia Scanner - Scorpions, Bats and Spiders
Marcelleria Mobile Di Me - Just You and Me
Bombardier - She
Kelman Duran - Raisa
Asifeh - Sabbeh
Emin Gök - Ode to a Belly Dancer
Bonaventure - Complexion (Ziur Remix)
Daseplate- Dust Mask

& @esileelise (00:29:48 - 1:00:24)

Elise
Ein - 126
Stella Fortuna - volz
HÉRISSÉ - Vicegod
Takemasa - Doukutsu
The XX - Angels (Eisebelle's angel machine remix)
Damn Whøre - Insomnia (feat. Mhramor)
E_DEATH - Haunting Ground
RougeHotel - Sync 2
Nahshi - Spiral
Kurama - Thistle Plate
LEGACY - Arrival
èvia - glare
online threat - coda
Gotye - Somebody That I used to Know (Blood of Aza Remix)

Artwork by www.instagram.com/vertigooooo

September, 12th, 2023

Cime w/ Elise & Victoire on Radio 80000 (September, 12th, 2023)

SILV-O M32 EP

The debut EP from artist and producer, Silv-o, Released February 8th via DJ Python's label Worldwide Unlimited.

M32 music video - youtu.be/EDDwfoqJojc?si=UHDUKTHf3kdXDowe
EP Launch @ Ormside Projects: youtu.be/uCQ6gDsR7hQ?si=wCy3dBl2lQtPUQgw

Visualisers by Silv-o

Music video by Silv-o & Bailey Marklew
CG - Innes Evans
Camera Operator - Ruben Neviazsky

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/silv.o/
Bandcamp: https://silv-o.bandcamp.com/
Label: https://worldwideunlimited.bandcamp.com/

Blues

Following the events of "Annihilation", xato presents the second part of his personal odyssey, "Irrational Fear".

"Irrational Fear" explores the dark self with intense drone recordings being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2020 and 2022, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

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