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"one by one these desires are wiped away"

"wanting less" out 27th of september
mu-tate.bandcamp.com/album/wanting-less

Produced and mixed by mu tate
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Cover photo by panddr
Center labels by Art Crime
Design by mu tate

one by one these desires are wiped away

The newest release from 29 Speedway, UltraBody, is a compilation record featuring the music of Jake Muir, Pent & Dylan Kerr, Nexcyia & mu tate, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos, Kamran Sadeghi, Tati au Miel, James Hoff, Eric Frye, qwqwqwqwa & sop.io, Muein, & Maxwell Sterling. The record is emblematic of the artists who have performed at 29 Speedway shows in New York and Europe during the past two years, and is the third in a series released by the label.

The record investigates how the self, spirituality, and language are intertwined with the intervention of subjectivity by new technologies. With increasingly sophisticated tech, and the supposed ability to remake the world and ourselves, what differentiates our individual discretion from the will imposed upon us by software? Quoting Walter Chaw, “Decades of rampant, unregulated and ill-considered technological leaps have begun to evolve, to mutate, humans at a biological level”. This haphazard acceleration towards a techno-utopic transformation of humanity has faulted, and as William Gibson put it, is leading us to live in a “half assed singularity”. In this reality, artistic processes are influenced by excessive access to computational tools and assistance, but not utterly controlled.

This in-between state of dominion is explored on UltraBody. “Incoherences” samples the utterances of Dylan Kerr’s voice processed between Pent’s percolated glazes, muddying the gulf between vaporous ambient and reflexive sound design. The voice on James Hoff’s “A... ...Cha.... A... I feel l” was created by trying to get voice cloning technology to sing a gps data stream, the music an extrapolation from an earworm he got stuck in his head while shopping in Kyoto. On “Plogue Chain”, Eric Frye’s most speculative sci-fi observations spiral into a glazed pool of digital cacophony, while Kamran Sadeghi’s “Formula Fiction” is an experiment in (un)controlled generativity. Incorporating minimal pings from a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction, cello bits evolve on “Assimilation”, a collaboration between Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos.

On UltraBody, sound has no separate existence from space.

James Hoff - A... ...Cha.... A... I Feel Like A Ghost Uh

Comechelet x ϙue - TIME

ϙue x Comechelet - Flora

Experimental duo 'games' present 4 new recordings that show off their full-spectrum production. A hauntingly exciting and beautiful escape from silence, Quarter Tone Sub is an exploration of bass, distortion and compression – reinterpreting composition and engineering.

Written/Produced by Jorge Camacho & Lawrence Goodwin
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Art by Jorge Camacho

stimul8

XENIA REAPER returns to INDEX:Records with ‘Gambling’ – a requiem to noughties trance-euphoria, with a contemporary ambient twist. A collection of nine deep, emotionally-explosive tracks that wrench your heart, as much as your gut.

Exclusive to this edition is a made-to-order transparent 12” LP lathe, cut by Disc Archive in Berlin – super limited though, so get your pre-order in ASAP if you’d like a piece.

Written & Produced by XENIA REAPER
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Lucas Dupuy

XENIA REAPER – Gambling (previews) [INDEX019]

@ursulasereghy
@mondoj-org

First time on our premiere program for the great Polish label Mondoj, set to release  Ursula Sereghy’s ‘Cordial’ LP on April 18. The Prague-based musician delivers a unique, playful approach of music production, between microcompositions accumulation and overwhelming sound design. Sounds unravel and reform: fragments of voices, reshaped textures, the shimmer of manipulated recordings all bending into semi-familiar contours. Here’s the heterogeneous yet harmonious music of the post-internet era, bringing you the comfort you didn’t think finding in such a ludicrous place.

Out on april 18 in casette and digital:
https://ursulasereghy.bandcamp.com/album/cordial

Comechelet x ϙue - TIME

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