Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Clown (PAN 139)

Crystal Heaven

Vad Ska Jag Göra Nu

@wa-ste222 & @grasps

Hyperlink surfaces again with Global Tides, a compilation born from trust, instinct, and the sheer joy of making something together.

…What happens if we stop trying to make sense, and start trying to make contact? …What if a compilation was a séance? What if we told you Global Tides started as a ripple in the fabric? A strange invitation passed between frequencies, across borders, through the fog of daily mess? 
Built on friendship, instincts, laptops, and late nights, this one’s about opening doors and seeing what rushes in. Global Tides is a love letter to collaboration. To letting go of the map and building something you couldn’t draw in advance (even if your collaborator’s on the other side of the world). A shaky bridge built between cities, timezones, feelings. Each track is a little rift, a meeting point where two (or more) worlds rub against each other until something spills out. Sometimes it’s raw, sometimes it’s cinematic, sometimes it’s a noise that wasn’t supposed to be there, but we kept it anyway, because it felt like a truth. At the end, all of it feels real. 

This is a drift. A gathering of scattered thoughts and tangled dreams, shaped into music by people who trusted the process. There were no rules. Just collisions and alignments. No plan. Just a low, shared hum: let’s try. Some tracks dissolve, others erupt. One of them might haunt you.

The proceeds on Bandcamp go back into this machine made of glue and guts : mastering, artwork, promo... Hyperlink’s still powered more by feelings than funding :’)

We didn’t expect to end up here…. But we did ! Together.

Mastering : @bademjan
A&R : @fannuze
Artwork : otieno

Wa?ste & Grasps - Generation Loss

@t_u_n_a

Artwork: Alexander Turovsky (www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/)
Mastering: Christoff Riedel (@riedelchristoff) 
Catalogue Number: cime010 
Release Date: June 16th, 2025

https://cime-world.ban

tuna - superposition

oxhy - comeaway (and their defeated hearts became the fruit of your sword) (feat. Heith)

Carved my name
in static hiss
body glitch
prophecy missed

They prayed for silence
I gave them a scream
veins full of blood & bass
a godless dream

Battle
wrote the sigil in soot
don’t call it art
just God’s heartbeat

Cut from prayer
stitched with rage

Carved my name
static hiss
body glitch
prophecy missed

Prayed for silence
I gave them a scream
bass for a bass
a godless dream

Holy mouth
unholy tongue
drips down where wounds begun

Unholy tongue
ink drips down
where the wounds begun

Every mirror broke
when I sang my name
the echo’s armed

It won’t behave

Carved my name
in static hiss
body glitch
prophecy missed

They prayed for silence
I gave them a scream
veins full of blood & bass
a godless dream

It Won't Behave

Amore Marco - Her eyes held a deep, mourned longing for the past


In this album, I wanted to relinquish control and work very intuitively. I've noticed that making quick decisions is healthy for my mind. Making quick decisions means finishing faster and moving on. It's like a photo, a snapshot. That's why I often accepted “mistakes” and hardly intervened during mixing so that my basic intention wouldn't be standardized (even if it might sound better).
The album is inspired by my earlier noise layer work, by the friction between pleasant and unpleasant, by my two bands Kadna and Golfjugo, and by the material I had available. The starting point for each song was the MS-20, with guitars making up most of the rest. I was forced to work with different material than usual because a lot of essential material is not with me at the moment. I learned a lot and acquired additional vocabulary<33



Manifest

Written by Burton Cummings, Gary Peterson, Jim Kale, Randy Bachman; Arranged and performed by IG Short

untld3_1

Some unreleased shit cause i dont wanna finish this shit mb gng

(prod. gusuck)

Lyrics

It’s fall again but now your gone
You try to act like your the one 
It’s fall again but now your gone
You try to act like your the one 

I guess i’m not the one for you
You should’ve told me sooner
And you didn’t wish me well
I’m tired of it all
Fall again
Let’s go again

It’s fall again but now your gone
You try to act like your the one 
It’s fall again but now your gone
You try to act like your the one 

I guess i’m not the one for you
You should’ve told me sooner
And you didn’t wish me well
I’m tired of it all
Fall again
Let’s go again

Manifest

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