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"It's like I've lost control of my left foot. It just won't stop tapping. And my neck! It hasn't moved this much since Ministry at Lolla '92!"

"Is that 10/8? Or 5/4? It must be 10/8 right? Or maybe 10/4? That's it, its 10/4. Gotta be. No, don't shake your head at me, my great grandmother studied piano at the Conservatory of Lyon. I know these things. My father was a musician too. He spent the years before my birth on a tour of the east coast with his band. He once told me..."

"Is that Chemical Brothers? Or the Prodigy? That technical electronical music stuff... I'm an old-school rocker, you know that. Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan... but that Prodigy, he had some hits in my college days! What was it? 'I am the fire man?' Something..."

These are just a few accounts from the bewildered yet astonished old-timers I passed by while blaring Govlink's new EP MASTER OF CEREMONIES in Tallahassee's historic midtown. The sound system belonging to my 2013 Hyundai Elantra is far from state-of-the-art, but even so, tracks like "Beam Trace Lagomorph" and "punchingdownintheair" grace my stereo with a swagger and a swank that can't be ignored. Even if you're sick and tired of club music, tasteless, or old, you'll find something — or a lot of somethings — in this little release to marvel at. Heather's effortless blending of all things ELECTRONIC and COMPUTER hasn't failed, not even once, to draw me in and keep me there. Do yourself a favor, and buy five copies of this album. Or ten. Right now. Make it a hundred actually. Go ahead. Or I'll find you...

-Computer man

Written and produced by Heather DiStefano
Mastered by Kaho Matsui
Artwork by Heather DiStefano
Album description by Computer Man

sink

sens algo99x

beam trace lagomorph

all my heroes love me too

positivity!!!!!

ty to my friends ella and gigi

♘ Keep ♞ a ♘ place ♞ for ♘ me ♞

BLOOD MOON

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@c0mput3rm4n is one of the more unreadable and consequently rewarding producers in the world. To condense the Cm corpus as amalgamating plunderphonics, concrète-dungeoncore, distressed sampledelia and the musings in collage of an absurdist arcade cabinet, would yet understate. There is a constancy in Cm’s work (across a number of aliases) of repurposing and recontextualisation, assertions of dreams as memory, memories as dreams, and a sincere will to provide a sonic picture of musical sites where everything is retrievable yet decayed into dubiety.

So at the same excursions do we find Cm for his Realist mix. Oneiric atonality, snippings of prior visual media equal parts bawdy and angelic, familiar drum patterns worked into dissonance and instability. Composed of work that inspired (and outtakes from) the awesome 2025 album More, the mix continues an enquiry into the the peopled possibility-spaces of medial marginalia.

Thus the memories of the machines and the people memoried by machines, beneath which lies a beauty of nostalgia. But a reframed nostalgia that is not a static romanticism of the inaccessible but a piratic attitude where nostalgia funds a bold series of hope and farce. Between hope and farce emerges a poetry of specks and slivers, where retrieval constitutes an indeterminate yet essential intimation of reality.

tracklist -

HikkieP - Diary, Diary, Diary, Blank
d'Eon - Intro
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Coldcut remix)
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Fiddle-Dee-Dee!!
Coaltar of the Deepers - DI++
Coaltar of the Deepers - DI++ (sadesper record mix)
Nobukzazu Takemura - Long Long Night
Bug Bus Piano - Life Above Ground
Shudder to Think - Love Catastrophe
Luminousorange - Puppy Dog Mail (Fast)
Computer doctor - Gueromixx2
Computer doctor & MouseMan - More outtake3
Computer doctor - A tiger striped cat
Computer doctor - WALTZ OF PENUT
Laura Shigihara - Zen Garden
Dream Dolphin - Canon A 3 Con Suo Basso Und Gigue
Sadesper Record - Siesta
Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming
Color Filter - Painter from New York
Michael Jackson - Xscape (Original Version)
Towa Tei - Last Century Modern
Foodman - Mizuburo
Osamu Sato - Soulless Awakening
James Ferraro - Flamboyant
Cakedog - Lockdown (Roland SC-55 Demake)
Gibby(-Dj) - Wound
serpuline - r◡zʜ
Spotline - Eukaryotic expansion

art by https://www.instagram.com/grinnallll/

Realist Alive Radio 023: Computer man

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