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INFRA 24001EP
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A Music Of Sound Systems is UK artist Spatial's debut album. Framed by the abstract art movement "Suprematism" and Russian artist Lissitzky in particular, A Music Of Sound Systems is an audio exploration of space, volume, mass, and rhythm, as well as an homage to both Caribbean and UK soundsystem culture. With musique concrète and the Darmstadt School both cited as inspirations, Spatial takes ideas of obscuring and manipulating, but instead interprets them into more club-aligned compositions. Combining these concepts, album opener "Doping Conductor" mixes tense soundscapes with crackling synths and a void like sinking bass. "Proun", a direct reference to Lissitsky, builds with escalating ominous intent whilst "Quiddity Dub" draws heavily on Spatial's dub roots. "Walking Off" is a turning point on the album as a vast and deserted ambient landscape materializes before "Routine Conflict" combines distorted noise with echoing and apprehensive synths. "System I" quickens with visceral scratches over a brooding siren like call before "A Music Of Sound Systems" closes out the LP with an eerie and staggered melody, rumbling outwards.
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INFRA 008EP
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Written in the Canary Islands with a batch of new gear, disparate noise converges into dub-wise, bass-driven trajectories, as if a sound system was placed inside a particle accelerator. Emergence #3 concludes Spatial's 12" trilogy. 180 gram black vinyl, housed in a printed transparent sleeve with label artwork stills taken from generative animation.
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INFRA 007EP
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Spatial presents the second part the three-part series, Emergence, which encompasses music and digital art. "Reanimator" is primarily characterized by an alertness to the emergence of new possibilities, as well as suggesting a desire for experimentation in fields with ambiguous potential. "Tensegrity" is characterized by a mood of tension in response to a large but otherwise unknown event rapidly approaching. On the 12" vinyl a URL is printed which leads to track information alongside an evolving visual work generated by a genetic algorithm. Pressed on 180g silver vinyl and housed in a printed transparent sleeve.
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INFRA 005EP
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Infrasonics hits heavy with their highly-collectable split EP series. Kingthing presents two hybrid numbers that wrap analog-style synths within tight digital edits. "Waking Up" is rhythmic in fits and starts, as vocal hooks and triplet percussive stabs reciprocate before gradually settling. "Cold Diss" bangs hard from the off. Jamie Grind's "For You" features cut-up vocal hooks and woozy stabs before resolving into a driving 4/4 groove. "We Still Play 140" is constructed around an off-kilter piano/stab combo and skittering percussion.
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INFRA 004EP
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The Infrasonics split 12" series continues with another heavy slab of dancefloor wares, cut in a tested four track double A-side format and signaling the return of a familiar pairing. The series was early to anticipate the existing melting pot of UK bass-influenced dancefloors and this drop follows in that ilk: the stripped-back, heads-down dirty house of XXXY contrasting the sleek, sophisticated anthems of Ike Release.
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