Schism

Missed Signal 909

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - 142atavism (Snippet)

Faff - Voicenote (Snippet)

Catatonia

Digitone fell

New release available at Defunkt Records!  
https://renegadeandroid.bandcamp.com/album/all-tomorrows-today

Midlife shimmers like sunlight on a cracked mirror, reflecting both beauty and pain with equal intensity.

The body, once vibrant and tireless, whispers reminders of its limitations, yet it carries the fierce resilience of having weathered life's storms - a tapestry woven with threads of loss and liberation - the bittersweet ache of letting go, intertwined with the joy of newfound freedom.

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"All Tomorrows, Today" is the echo of countless futures whispering through cracks in the present, each possibility shimmering with potential and peril. It's a dance between hope and acceptance, embracing the fleeting beauty of now while recognizing the endless river of tomorrows yet to flow. It's a whispered reminder that every heartbeat ripples outward, shaping the tapestry of time, weaving all pasts, presents, and futures into a magnificent, unknowable whole. In this cosmic dance, the weight of all tomorrows rests not just on future horizons, but on the choices we make right now, in this precious spark of the present.

Dedicated to my love Emily.

released January 26, 2024

© Defunkt Records 2024.

DEFUNKT008
RENEGADE ANDROiD - 'All Tomorrows, Today' EP

Written and produced by Shawn Shackleford.
Original album artwork by Daed
Mastering by Julien "Stazma" Guillot at Electric Voyage Studio in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

All Tomorrows, Today

Sciatica

As you well know, electronic music is so amazing because it is capable of merging with any musical style. Apart from this, you are not subject to particular instruments, so it is not very complicated to evolve and open new paths. Among all the musical fusions and derivations that we have been able to hear in all these years there has always been one (I don't know if I should call it a genre) for which I have had a special weakness, Braindance. Anyone who is influenced by more acidic sounds, syncopated bass, funk drums and nostalgic pads will be deliciously grateful for this new album from FLUCTUOSA _ VODOR L ZECK. In my opinion they are masters in this style. While Fluctuosa honors a very original and refined composition that becomes addictive, Vodor makes use of the iconic 808/606/303 combo to develop delicious funky (sometimes Jazzy) tracks that transport us to the golden era of electronic music

Here we have 80 amazing minutes that we hope you all enjoy.
Remember that when everything turns gray and boring, Braindance has always saved the day.

Fluctuosa - Dotty Fawn

not really loudness mixed whatsoever, only minor limiting. maybe I'll do that later.. :p

Int_ren

found this old track in my hard drive - i really miss making music <3 
hope you like it

CoolB

Beeper

POSITIVLAND. Records Made with Love (the One that Is In The Air)
London + Sant Joan de Mollet 

 Out now  12" Vinyl PSTVLND 02
by Faff
https://positivland.bandcamp.com/

Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.
www.desslab.net

Faff - 142atavism (Snippet)

Positivland

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