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PARALL 022CD
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Cathexis: Motion Picture Soundtrack is the fourth widely-available album by ex-Benbecula Records head boy, Christ. aka Chris H.. The soundtrack was made in close collaboration with award-winning Swedish film-maker and video jingle animator for Japanese Space Shower TV -- Stefan Larsson, as a perfect counterpoint and counterpart to his up-coming digital movie release Cathexis. The film depicts an esoteric group of people, known as AUJIK, and their interactions with nature and technology, both of which are viewed by AUJIK as having spiritual qualities. The AUJIK create and interact with artefacts consisting of unique and multifaceted Artificial Intelligences, transcending emotional inputs to the artefacts' artificial limbic systems, revealing various aspects of the artefacts' minds. This symbiosis of refined and primitive nature leads the AUJIK people to a higher awareness of the self. Christ. is first and foremost a musician. Multi-instrumentalist Chris H. has a solid musical pedigree and an impressive back-catalog on the sadly-defunct Benbecula Records, and a handful of releases and remixes elsewhere. Christ. has created his soundscapes forging a unique path of musical beauty that escapes derivation. Christ.'s music is often likened to that of fellow Scottish electronic group Boards Of Canada. In fact, Chris H was an early participant in the nebulous Hexagon Sun collective from which BoC emerged and was a collaborator with the group until approximately 1995, appearing on the Twoism album, reissued by Warp in 2002.
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BEN 017EP
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Christ. is Benbecula's best-selling artist to date, with his 2002 debut classic Pylonesque and follow up full length album Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle in 2003 causing quite a storm. Christ. got some old friends together to help out with a limited vinyl promo for his new album Blue Shift Emissions, and the result is "Vernor Vinge," a track culled from said album along with an exclusive short and two excellent remixes of exclusive tracks. dDamage appear courtesy of Planet Mu and Benbecula label-mate Prhizzm steps in to remix "Happyfour Twenty," a track from the new album. The result is a four track EP that will hopefully spread the word about how excellent his second and long-awaited album really is and yet also step forward as another classic Christ. release in its own right, with three tracks exclusive to this limited run.
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