wAgAwAgA - pHudupHud (LP)

[Hugh Mughnus]

From his bandcamp!

 

 

one night the phantom came and lifted the cursed devizez,
this time capsule was left behind.

Returning from the mountain dream.
having sailed the seven seas of trudgeon.
and washed up near reggie.

we travelled, with silas as the guide,
traversing the multiverse of Sonus Australis.
from the crystal-murky waters of Aotearoa
the neo-fluoro landscape of the immigrant hominids
was recapitulated through an angld lens.
to form a hybrid view of rigdom.

the master files now lost!
these crystalline sketches are all that remain
of a long weekend of Progging into the pHuture.

Beginning with some techno/time experiments,
things accelerated and twisted through the... wacky/unsettling realms
before collapsing into the reflected fall.

theres just time to wind down a drift in the end.
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Enjoy!

wAgAwAgA.

money from the last few releases has gone towards fixing up the hardware to get this album online, so thanks very much to all who threw something in the hat !

 

https://wagawaga.bandcamp.com/album/phuduphud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very happy he has been able to release again! 

[Hugh Mughnus]

First couple listens, I'm diggin' it. 

 

Housey techno vibes with distinct wAgA warping bass etc. dope   

[Soloman Tump]

This is awesome. Standard.

[Extralife]

Tunes!

[Hugh Mughnus]

bizzump

 

 

Really great album, I like every track but I think etotheax transform and late pulse are my favs. 

 

I'm not used to hearing straight techno from wAgA, but this is great. 

[Soloman Tump]

Yep, nice to hear some straight up 4/4. Dare I say it though, some of it is a bit average... But compared to a lot of techno by techno artists it's still great. Just average for waga. I prefer his wonky rhythms and dubby acidic beats.

[Hugh Mughnus]

Do you mean the more minimal aesthetic by chance? I think parts of it were meant to be kind of sparse (not busy like most of his stuff). Album starts out kind of minimal and then ramps up in pace (I think peaking with Late Pulse) and then slows down again towards the end. 

 

Feel like it'd be good to come up on mushrooms to this lol

[Soloman Tump]

I was initially a bit harsh on this, it is of course great and weaves quite a complex path throughout the course of the LP. He keeps on reinventing every genre that he touches.

 

Which leads me to the question, which genre should he paint with the waga brush next?!

[Extralife]

This album does my head in. In the best possible way.

[Hugh Mughnus]

Yeah, I love it! Just finished another playthrough now. 

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