Emerging from the fertile chaos of Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs scene, Sequence of Events, the collaborative project of Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, presents The Art of Memory, an album that feels both intimate and ungraspable, like recalling a dream that fades upon waking.

Rooted in the post-industrial landscapes of West Germany, The Art of Memory channels the bleak resilience of these environments into its sound. It’s a collage of kraut-infused electronics, shoegaze textures, and industrial pulses, filtered through a lens of introspective psychedelia. “We don't consciously break down or combine genres,” they explain. “Everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.”

From the opening track TAR, with its stoic vocals and drum-heavy propulsion, to the robotic Meagre Gardens, where autotuned chants coil around unconventional drum programming, the album moves like a fever dream through fragmented memories. Soul Divider unfolds like a cinematic journey through yearning and desire, its repetitive pulses echoing the ache of unfulfilled longing, while Nature Hates Life distills pop music through the eyes of a killjoy: “Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” as the band describes it. Even moments of...  more
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Music written and produced by Deniz Ahmet Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns
Lyrics by Joshua Gottmanns
Recorded in Düsseldorf and Berlin
Additional recordings with Alexander Fuchs at Hotel Viktoria in Meersburg
Mixed by Deniz Ahmet Saridas
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Cover and inner sleeve by Deniz Ahmet Saridas, concept by Joshua Gottmanns
Liner Notes: Caroline Whiteley
A&R by Dominik André & Nevesthika Muralitharan
Original Release by Subject To Restrictions Discs
Distributed by Bordello A Parigi

Sequence Of Events - Closed Circuit

Be away from the edge. Steep slope.
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Distribution: Bordello A Parigi (worldwide), The Business (USA)
Licensing: licensing@subjecttorestrictions.ch