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 - Voicenote (Snippet)

Mostly with Latin American origin. Nu cumbia, acid house and few specials.

01. La Decima Vittima - Danza Macabra (snippet)
02. JAVIRO - Antes del amanecer
03. Dissemblance - Attaquer le Soleil
04. Plastic Toy Sounds - Cuando Era Niño
05. Ato 05 - Kumbia Aire
06. TRJ Sound System - Cumbia de los Buenos Sentimientos
07. El Barba Dub - Cumbia locochona
08. EL GUSANO - hematic cumbia feat. nap
09. ViolentlyRami - No me invitaron
10. Crespi Drum Syndicate - Colada Talk
11. Baüzer Vep - Vu-Vu Be-Zon
12. EL GUSANO - cumbia puerka feat. el pulpo y la momia
13. Conjunto Media Luna, Maria Mallol Moya - Baile en el Infierno
14. A/B - 48.2188, 16.3324 (ZwölfachtelBreak_09)
15. Crespi Drum Syndicate - Sofia
16. EL GUSANO - desvelao feat. la momia
17. Chupame El Dedo - Bolillo Cafre
18. El Satánico - Batucada Satánica (Interludio)
19. Conjunto Media Luna - Villa Incepción

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The Endless Echo
Pye Corner Audio
GBX045 LP, CD & DL
5th April 2024

The Endless Echo

Pye Corner Audio - Counting the Hours (clip)

Another World Another Time

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210224 vers

Sound Of The System #46 : Objects In The Mirror

Broadcast live on reboot.fm Berlin - 09.03.2024

Electronome: Bass Commander
Emperor Machine: Pro Mars
Rabbits Wear Boots: Sensual Synthetic
Arkademode: Data Entry
Frankie Bones: Funky Acid Makossa
Bang Elektronika: Aktivierung
Out Of The Ordinary: Immer Wenn Er Ein Pillen Nahm (Bizarro Universe Edit)
Panka Panka: Uuhhhhh
KLF: Higher
N-Joi: Adrenalin
KLF: What Time Is Love
Robert Miles: Children (Edit Mix)
Karassimeon: STSFXN
Radial Gaze & Ludviq: Ruins of Argos
Alegria: Danger (Alien Remake)
Peach Nox: Orange
Frank Blake: Rogue (Della Remix)
Joe Lewandowski: Cosmic 
Krishna Goineau feat. MCL: La Forgeron (Curses Edit)
Tim Paris: Version A ft. Telemark (Cosmo Vitelli Remix)
Sworn Virgins: Lazer Beam
Max Jones: Drain
Laughing Eye: An Die Freude 
Alessandro Cortini: Batticuore

Cover illustration: painting on ice by David Popa 

(used exclusively for illustration of the audio archive and promotion of the cover artists work, no copyright infringement intended, please contact SOTS if you feel you are not credited appropriately or that this is an infringement of your rights and we will credit accordingly or remove the image)

Sound Of The System #46 : Objects In The Mirror

Suga On My Tongue (EDIT)

Funkerman - Speed Up (Nathan Katz Edit)

STUTTER HOUSE - INSTRUMENTAL DJ - FREEDL CCBY

Deep Bloom

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Sound Of The System is a Berlin-based electronic music production duo created by Plastique De Rêve (NOO) and Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed) with a monthly radio show on Berlin's independent artist radio station reboot.fm

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