Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Exegesis

Following releases on Eternal Dragonz and Gãy, ONY’s Children of the Apocalypse was produced after a return from Vietnam in late 2019, through multiple lockdowns, up until the present day. 

Children of the Apocalypse takes its name from a documentary about the enduring multigenerational destruction caused by the US military, who dumped Agent Orange herbicide over a third of Vietnam during the War. Circling personal narratives and family migration throughout the EP, the cover artwork is a portrait taken by ONY of his grandmother in her old flat in Montpellier, where she moved to as a refugee alongside his grandfather and their seven children. Defined by its heavily textural atmospherics and cinematic composition, Children of the Apocalypse serves as an attempt to in ONY’s words: “soundtrack the video game I will never create and a reflection on my family history, what it means to be Vietnamese in the south of France.”

ONY (Thierry Phung) is a DJ and producer who has been crafting stories on his genre-bending monthly NTS show since 2015. He mines whatever he finds to craft an immersive and strange musical environment. His shows are by turn dark, ethereal and uncanny, often all at once.

Children of the Apocalypse is written and produced by ONY 
Mastering by Harry Murdoch

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Replay du mix de @golce-dabbana pour @olga_productions lors de notre passage sur @radioalhara dans le cadre de la sortie de la première compilation du label DÉLITEMENT.

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evo-lation three is evo-natura's third fundraising compilation and it's featuring Ioannis Nafpliotis, Europa, Quit Life, Griigg, Bademjan, TONTO, Xuri, Cleworth, Vanity Productions & Daniel S. Bøtcher.

The project focuses on field recording manipulation with the help of hardware and digital editing.

All the earnings will be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects (https://www.edenprojects.org/)

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Artwork by Karina
Art Direction, Curation & Cassette Design by Ioannis Nafpliotis
Curation Assistant Thanos Tsalamas
Mastering by Panagiotis Vaxevanakis

evo-lation three

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https://powerpuertorico.bandcamp.com/album/power-puerto-rico-compilation

"100% of the proceeds of this compilation will be donated to The Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund, a grassroots organization working on recovery and rebuilding in the areas most affected by Maria."

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