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White Islands

FEATURING
Miquel Brown 
Stereo 
International Music System 
Holy! Ghost 
Koto
Nightmoves
Yazoo 
Soft Cell
Ronny
DAF
Souixsie and the Banshees (Cover)
Sparks
New Order
Kraftwerk 
Model 500
Charlie
Little Boots

Techno Pop Mix by Human Cruelty(Borderline Bootlegs)

Album: AAI
Thrill Jockey, 2021
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Mouse on Mars, the Berlin-based duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with an inexhaustible curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. Operating in their unique orbit within dance music’s nebulous echosystem, the duo’s hyper-detailed productions are inventive, groundbreaking but always possessing a signature joyful experimentation. A genre-less embrace of cutting-edge technologies have ensured that each Mouse on Mars release sounds strikingly modern, a fact made more remarkable when one reflects on the duo’s 25 years of making music. New album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes Toma and Werner’s fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further. Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers and longtime Mouse On Mars collaborator/percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo explores artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, summoning their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.

AAI compiles some of the most immediate and gripping music in Mouse on Mars’ extensive catalogue. Emerging from a primordial ooze of rolling bass and skittering electronics, hypnotic polyrhythms and pulsing synthesizers propel the listener across the record’s expanse. Hidden in the duo’s hyper-detailed productions is a kind of meta-narrative. Working with AI tech collective Birds on Mars and former Soundcloud programmers Rany Keddo and Derek Tingle, the duo collaborated on the creation of bespoke software capable of modelling speech. What appears to be Louis Chude-Sokei narrating through the story is in fact the AI speaking. Text and voice from Chude-Sokei and DJ/producer and programmer Yağmur Uçkunkaya (DJ Rayne) were fed into the software as a model, allowing Toma and Werner to control parameters like speed or mood, thereby creating a kind of speech instrument they could control and play as they would a synthesizer. The album’s narrative is quite literally mirrored in the music - the sound of an artificial intelligence growing, learning and speaking. Artwork was provided by the inventor of the computer graphics language Processing, Casey Reas, a further exploration of technology’s application in the context of art.

In Chude-Sokei’s text, as machine learning advances, robots begin to develop language, conscience, empathy - “anarchic” and unpredictable qualities. Drawing parallels between the evolution of human and machine, AAI uses technology as a lens to examine deep philosophical questions. The question of how we use technology and world resources feels particularly poignant and timely as we head into 2021. AAI posits that we must embrace AI and technology as a collaborator to break out of our current cultural and moral stagnation, and to ensure our survival as a species. As Werner explains: “AI is capable of developing qualities that we attach to humans, like empathy, imperfection and distraction, which are a big part of creativity. We need to get past the old paranoia that fears machines as the other, as competitors who will do things faster or better, because that just keeps us stuck in our selfishness, fear and xenophobia. Machines can open up new concepts of life, and expand our definitions of being human.“
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Artificial Authentic

Love Is

The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

Nexus is a concept album following assassin Leo, as he embarks on a mission that will open up pandora's box of revelations as he is tasked to extract an asset of previously unimaginable value. It's a journey through self-doubt, rage to peace and catharsis. The album moves across genres to set the soundscape for this journey of self-discovery for Leo. This album is the second part of a trilogy, with the other albums still under work

Track 06 - Confessions of Conscience

Taken from the album Belgica (Original Soundtrack By Soulwax). Available now on iTunes: http://po.st/belgicasoundtrack

Watch 'Belgica' movie trailer: https://youtu.be/oz1yQcfEGX4

Connect with Soulwax:
http://www.2manydjs.com
https://www.facebook.com/soulwax
https://twitter.com/soulwax

Charlotte - The Best Thing (Original Soundtrack By Soulwax)

Ralph EP

I Think I Smell a Rat (The White Stripes cover)

Henry Rollins Black Flag Breathing ASMR

When I Was Young

Genesis P-Orridge & Astrid Monroe - Possession

permvac163-1 Carl Gari "Shipster" EP out now @carl-gari

Carl Gari - Treasure Island Sunset

Capture of Datathief (Skam, V/VM, Pitchcadet, Device) playing live at Chemical Soup at the Park, Manchester. December 1999. One of our best nights… happy memories.

07 Datathief - Night Raid (Miami version)

As featured on the "Lost Transmissions From The Off-World Territories" 2xLP compilation on Invisible Inc.

Komodo Kolektif - Fire Walk (taken from "Lost Transmissions From The Off-World Territories)

Jennifer Touch - Behind The Wall

Equally at home on and off the dancefloor, its cold sensuality is both vibrant and brooding. Showcasing her unique sound in the saturated world of electronica, Touch successfully draws from electropop and disco influences, combining 80’s vintage synths with industrial soundscapes, delivered with a visceral post-punk snarl.

Genesis P-Orridge & Astrid Monroe - Possession

Crackling Frequencies

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