Extralife

Now That’s What I Call Colundi Vol. 474,398

Just listened - what a wild ride. Highly recommended.

https://detund.bandcamp.com/album/hope-fear She probably released what was one of my top albums of 2016 with "Hertz". Really high hopes for this one. Juno Review:It’s easy for mastery of synthesis to become about subtlety and refinement – using a wall of modular to elicit the perfect tone. But what about pushing to the other extreme? Sometimes you want to see someone with towers of equipment wrenching unimaginable cascades of sonics out of ungainly patches, with all the grit and dirt left in for good measure. Formerly a duo, now solely the work of Lena Saito, Galcid is one such venture where you can have some faith that all that lush studio gear isn’t going to waste. Saito has returned to Detroit Underground, a label with its own embrace of futurism and technology as a wild and unknowable frontier. The result is an album that snarls out its identity in a flash. The dazzling array zapping through the opening stretch of ‘Awareness’ is hard to fathom – it’s an acrobatic display of what can be achieved across the stereo field. The sound palette is a noisy mix of analogue and digital blips, shrieks and thumps, pushed into the red and placed right up front so the sculptural imagery of the sound occupies your cerebral cortex. It’s an exercise in engineering as much as an expression – a celebration of what machine music can do when you let the machines set the tone. There are more conventional moments – the acidic throb coursing through ‘Undulation’ feels like a familiar foothold even if the overall construct of the track is brilliantly non-standard. There is also some space for melodic levity, such as on ‘Electronic Flash’ which pivots around a beautiful, skittering chord tone. But by and large, this is a place to enter when you want to be shocked by the startling newness of everything. The cyberpunk styling is hard to refute when it’s executed this well. With this album, Saito has laid out a formidable case for her position amongst the upper echelons of contemporary machine manglers.

Finally got around to listening to this - really, really good stuff. A bit of a departure from his more dancy, upbeat work though. Some really clever rhythms and also really multilayered but not overcrowded (if that makes sense).

https://awalkingcontradiction.bandcamp.com/album/mangrove-management Varuna bringing on the lush, again.

Yeah I saw this article today. Weird how this mythology is starting to go mainstream after we’ve been following it for so long.

That was a great read. Well done, and thanks.

Huh?

Yeah. It’s pretty so so... ...and again disappointing after creating some of the classics you listed.

Been meaning to listen to this - thx for the reminder!

See? That’s how you start a label people.

New CRC and Humanoid? Yes pls.

Looks sharp. Most important question: Will there be digitals?

Really harnessing those SAW 85-92/Polygon vibes. Also very nicely varied collection. Very nice!

Sounds like he’ll fit right in. And the conservatives can feel good they have a “minority” speaker.

Hang in there, brother.

Spinner - one of my favorites by him (and Eno). Also recently got the reissue treatment. https://brianenoallsaints.bandcamp.com/album/spinner-expanded-edition

Yeah I stopped about three releases ago. Can't keep up.

Bump. This is KILLER.

https://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-pressed-against-the-glass Very impressed with this.

Thanks peeps. Finding out about his work this past couple weeks has been pretty eye opening.

Haven’t heard from him in awhile. Definitely will check this.

So acording to this boomkat review it's gonna be a romantic version of frozen dudes in a tank being bombarded to shreds Count me in.

Fascinating documentary - thanks for the rec. Just finished part 3. Really makes a lot of very complex topics about our societies shine clearly. Especially liked seeing the contrast between the historical figures he highlights (Shakur, Ching, Michael X) and the revolution movements they helped lead. What Curtis docs should I watch next?