FLASHBULB

Music Video: https://youtu.be/_6nRYU51My4

Presenting my HYPERGLITCH series EP - Multiverse! 

I am beyond excited to share this with you, as it has been in the works for quite a while now! A huge thanks and a shoutout to Woulg for curating the HYPERGLITCH series and giving us this opportunity. I am honored to be a part of it! As well as a huge thanks to Detroit Underground for taking the series further!

Album description by @woulgmusic:

"Melancholy isn't just a feeling in this album, it's a taste, it's a texture, a shroud that encompasses you while you listen. Abroxis has an incredible talent of pulverizing you with heavy, lumbering beats and basses and somehow pulling you out of your body and letting you float over top of it all with his synth lines. This album is really a synthesis of the brutal and the beautiful. It's a sort of emulsion of the two in a way that seems almost impossible. It reminds me of that type of silence; the type you only hear in the worst situations. When time slows down. When the driver loses control of the car on the highway. Swerving from left to right as he overcorrects. There isn't enough time to really think anything, you know he's going too fast. There's that moment where you feel frozen. It's the moment where you know what is about to happen, but it hasn't happened yet, and you're trapped just waiting for it. That's when time slows to a stop for a moment. That's when the silence really settles in. Abroxis has somehow crystallized that feeling into the sound of an entire album. 

I think a core aspect of everything that I tend to think of as "hyperglitch" has a taste of this melancholy, but with Abroxis, it's really on full display. There's something unique about the way that really elaborate, intricate and at the same time brutalizing sound design can describe the sort of helpless violence that can accompany a deep sadness. And the sadness, despondency and apathy can be depicted so accurately with exactly the types of textural, hyper-detailed synth manipulation that is on display in Multiverse."

Composition, production & mastering by: @Abroxis
Released by: @detroitunderground
Artwork by: ANTIREAL (@n2-music)

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Indomitable

ARIA is a short horror film by Bruce Tetsuya.

"After the sudden death of their reclusive father, Aria and her sister Ava venture deep into the woods to his home, in order to clear it out. Aria's mind is pulled in two directions. One way towards her regret for not being closer with her father, and the other towards the stage play she's supposed to be rehearsing. Ava tries to help Aria practice lines, and console her about their loss. As the two begin to clean out the cabin, they both begin to feel a presence...
The lines of reality are blurred, as the sisters lose themselves in the world of the play, the depth of the forest, and in the hands of their ghost."

The soundtrack of the movie is composed by the Berlin/Leipzig-based New Age duo Arigto. Shattered strings and piano compositions are mutated around the tracks into a chill and nostalgic pile of emotions, each one made for each act of the film.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/1ywDGYQdwxM

Available on Digital / Cassette / Booklet.

Artwork, Booklet Curation & Cassette Design by Ioannis Nafpliotis.
Photography Direction by Jacob Glazier.
Photography by Andrew Han, Bruce Tetsuya & Jacob Glazier.

Written & Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/arigto.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.

ARIA (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Possession Theme / The Motion Of Hand

Cassette / Digital

Arigto - Possession Theme / The Motion Of Hand

HOLE IN THE GROUND (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
CAT NUMBER: NO 12
RELEASE DATE - 8th September 2023

The Hole In The Ground (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is bursting with rich treats from the imagination of Amon Tobin. 
A film in audio/visual excerpts, each track has its own short selected from the visual explorations of Tobin’s alter ego Shy1 and musically we are teased with beguiling and frightening hints at what the story of this place we see might be. 
It’s a collection of music and imagery playing with themes and deliberately incomplete narratives,  inviting us to wonder; where is this place? What is the story of these characters?
The viewer is left enough space for their own imagination to begin to fill in the gaps.
It’s an enjoyably menacing process. 
The perpetual undulation between hope and fear coursing through each and every minute of the EP’s 6 tracks.

Opening with the ominous, glittering Hole in the Ground with plaintive cries from the edges of the universe, Ghost of a Star brings a disturbing and delicate urgency through sound and visuals where we appear to be presented with the sculptural, modular construction of a Black Hole. A portent of what is to come or a playful game the Gods play to amuse themselves?

If we could intercept the conversations the machines are having then Wolves in the Yard is how they may sound. It builds and builds leaving us with an inkling that perhaps something that is not our friend is coming close.

Larkspur reveals a beautiful, biomechanical temple and its acolytes. But did they arrive with the vessels featured in the earlier Hole in the Ground film or do they worship them? Again the questions… What is this place? Who are these people?

Self Collider tantalises with elements of light, in sound and vision. A different climate suggests there is more than one tribe in this evolving world and there amongst the triumvirate of dancers is a character already familiar to Nomark devotees, Figueroa. 
Celebration, ritual or necessity? The billowing choreography of Self Collider’s dancers is filled with an intense  grace and a fierce determination etched onto the faces that we can see. As their dance comes to an end there is an enigmatic serenity in their eyes. 
There’s something curiously optimistic and grand about Pale Tundra that keeps you guessing. A mighty rock looms large in an otherwise flat and ice encrusted landscape, as our view sweeps across this unnatural wonder your eyes are drawn by details you may not have noticed at first. Beneath the horse like rock paintings, are there really petrified faces trapped in the lines and shadows of the cliffs or is it just a pareidolic response?

Hole In The Ground (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a glimpse into the developing work of film score and story. 

Tracklist:
Hole In The Ground
Ghost Of A Star
Wolves In The Yard
Larkspur
Self Collider
Pale Tundra

Ghost Of A Star

Hole In The Ground

The End to Something

Submarine

Cats Steps

For the Twin

Wisp - All His Might

Red Extensions of Me

Sun Rise Jul

Louisiana Mourning

Toomorrow

Mothman / Evac

Mothman

So after 2 crashes and 6 hours of work down the drain, I've finally finished this one. The second crash almost made me give up, but then as a bit of a 'fuck you' to ultra unstable adobe audition 3, I took the corrupted recovery file and mashed some of it into the track...which made me feel loads better.
Anyway it's probably one of my longest tracks to date (in both track length and time to make) so let's just hope it's been worth it....
If you want the full binaural effect, listen on headphones.

Released in the Libet Tones EP on Detund: 
http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/03/vaetxh-libet-tones-du17/

Buy the EP

Vaetxh - List of Lists [Libet Tones EP, more info in description]

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