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LESPOINTS 017LP
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In Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles II the Dracula figure functions as a part fictive and part autobiographical metaphor. Dracula mirrors certain systematic (therefore also internal) conditionings and attributes in its whole ambivalent fluctuations. This character represents the complex relationships of a loving/living person in a neo-liberal capitalist system while oscillating between melancholia and rage, facing the preservation or loss of his love and standing in an alienated position towards the ruling order. The eleven featured compositions and their respective song names (both of them are riddled with references) playfully touch on conflicts between love, life and system-critique, without being too upfront about the subject-matter. Nicola Kazimir (*28.05.1990 in Zürich, Schweiz) A DJ, producer, musician, artist, space-owner, record label owner, and party organizer. Nicola Kazimir works freely across platforms and communities. For Kazimir, these numerous positions are not static, and they can act fluidly and reciprocally as a whole, or as separate entities. His artistic and acoustic productions are mostly based on topics that include the institutionalization of techno, copyright, dividualism, and the human perception of repetitive rhythm patterns mixed with aesthetic codes of B-movie horror movies or occultism. He is one of the founders and still part of the labels Les Points/Gentrified Underground/Infoline and the off-space Mikro Zürich. Other projects include a supporting role in the organization of Zentralwäscherei Zürich and being part of the Clubbüro-team at Rote Fabrik.
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LESPOINTS 012LP
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Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles draws from contemporary and past cultural references evolving around institutional-critique, occultism, and dividualism, and manifests those via metatags or sonic compositions. It is Nicola Kazimir's debut solo album and features 30 minutes full of diverse, rough, evil, melancholic electronic music pressed on to one record. Studio gear used: Yamaha DX7IIFD, Roland TR-909, Roland TR-808, Roland TR-606, Drumatix, Roland Juno-60, Roland System 100 Model 101, Roland TB-303 Bass Line, Roland SBF-323 Stereo Flanger, Mackie 32/08/02 Mixing Console Universal Audio, Apollo 16, E-RM Multiclock, Logic Pro X, Sugar Bytes Looperator VST, Sugar Bytes Thesys VST, Valhalla Freq Echo VST, Universal Audio Oxide Tape VST. Sampled: The Occult Experience, Kazuhiko Uehara, Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko, and Masahiko Kimura, Konji Kondo. Nicola Kazimir is a part of the collective Les Points based in Zürich, Switzerland. His art/music draws from '90s rave utopias, dividualism, institutional-critique, and occultism. These progressive and accessible frameworks are showcased at the collective's offspace Mikro -- a physical room which has no doors and opening times during exhibitions and raves -- making an institution available to all social layers. His record labels Les Points and the newly founded Gentrified Underground appropriate those ideas and transfer them to the distribution channels of electronic music. Nicola refuses genre-stigmas and explores a vast number of genres in his DJ sets and productions -- his newest LP Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles being an example of that diversity. Includes insert.
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LESPOINTS 001EP
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Alexander Shulgin's theory says that man has produced endogenous hallucinogens in prehistoric times. In order to ensure his survival, this had to regress. What remains in our generation are receptors. With the EP Only Receptors, Les Points debut with their eponymous label. Four tracks aligned to stimulate the receptors on the dancefloor. Nicola Kazimir's EP consists of three originals, one of which enjoys vinyl exclusivity, and a remix. The remix is delivered by Mike Shannon and excels in its marvelous straight wildness.
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