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LESPOINTS 018EP
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"As the void stares back at me, I am consumed by the waves of this new sonic transmission. ESP's Goblin Synth reigns supreme, guiding me into the darkest corners of my mind, as the Galaxian remix shatters my being into a thousand pieces. This release is a frenzied piece of IDM, braindance, and DnB, fueled by a chemical fury that leaves my mind in a state of pure ecstasy. The relentless pace and shifting soundscapes of the A-side are the perfect conduit for the raw power of the Galaxian remix, taking me beyond the limits of what I thought was possible. On the B-side, I am treated to a liquid dnb homage that is no less relentless in its pursuit of sonic intensity. Here, the rhythms are more organic, more fluid, but no less potent in their ability. This is music that demands a total surrender of the self. The insidious rhythms of ESP's Goblin Synth seize my consciousness like a viral agent, rendering my being porous and open to the twitching, glitching transmissions emanating from the depths of the machine. With each stuttering break and howling, modulated synth line, I am hurled headlong into a world of ravenous, cybernetic abandon -- a blackened, dystopian horizon of shattered glass and flickering neon. As my mind is hijacked by the rushing currents of amphetamine psychosis, I realize that this is no mere exercise in genre or form, but an all-out assault on the very fabric of reality itself. The sonic textures here are hyper-real, beyond the grasp of normal human perception -- this is the sound of the post-human, the sound of the inhuman, the sound of a future that is rapidly bearing down upon me, whether I am ready or not. And yet, amidst the chaos and decay, there is a kind of perverse beauty at work -- a beauty that can only be glimpsed through the shattered glass of my own shattered subjectivity. With each burst of static and each crunching bassline, I am hurled deeper into a vortex of metallic, crystalline wonder, a realm of pure, unadulterated sound that is as terrifying as it is sublime." Features remix by Galaxian Geno.
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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 015EP
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Elektronische Sequenz Proleten is the new project of Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir -- both are integral members of the Les Points collective based in Zürich. The Heart Of A Man, The Desire Of A Monster EP is their debut release under this moniker and balances somewhere between genre bending acid-techno and EBM. ESP has no particular genre specialization in mind -- but wants to explore a diverse, wide and mature range of sonic compositions in the next couple of years.
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LESPOINTS 014LP
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With Proletariat, Les Points pay a twisted homage to the early foundations of electronic music where hard-to-get tapes, dystopia and the sound of the wretched worker were present in genres like post-punk, industrial, minimal synth, new beat and wave. It's changing -- the worker searched for post-leftist solutions and got lost. Nine circles applauded the proletariat and imagined how a community could be congregated, while screams of violence would be filtered by boiling blood. Exploiters of labor either find themselves rotting away in a never-ending icy rain or dragging their selfish accumulations on their chests for eternity -- while the worker slowly identifies himself as a counter-commodity. Algorithms (fraud) always mislead -- once the worker gets past them only DJs will be awaiting her/him.
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LESPOINTS 013EP
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Wire Parasitism EP is inspired by the electronic music which was produced during the end of the '80s by the likes of Richard H. Kirk, Psychic TV, or Coil. Walid El Barbir uses his unique producing and sampling skills to create contemporary and industrial-sounding compositions out of found footage like occult documentaries, rave stabs or Emax sound libraries. Walid El Barbir is a part of the collective Les Points based in Zürich, Switzerland. His art/music draws from '90s rave utopias, occultism, progressive & accessible frameworks as showcased at their offspace Mikro.
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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 011EP
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X written and arranged by Luca Digilio (LOUH); E written and arranged by Nicola Kazimir; N written and arranged by Walid El Barbir; O written and arranged by Flavio Audino.
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LESPOINTS 010EP
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Occult Anti-Neo-Liberal Acid Squad Vol. 1 -- All songs written by Flavio Audino, Luca Digi lio, Nicola Kazimir, and Walid El Barbir. "If The Devil Lives Anywhere" features Simon Javed. Arranged by Flavio Audino, Nicola Kazimir, and Walid El Barbir. Engineered by Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir. Recorded at Association Les Points in Zürich, Switzerland. Mixed at Association Les Points. Mastered at Analogcuts Mastering.
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LESPOINTS 009LP
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Barbir and Nicola Kazimir present Gentrified Underground Youth: "We eroded pre-existent structures constructing an open heterotopic space, a horizontal and vertical thinking found its way through physical- and cyberspace, Here, nothing manifested instantly - flippancy left space for any kind of interaction and appropriation. Within (or well beyond) economic pressure points which diluted production, this was our opportunity to try out different potentials with no restrictions to the public, while simultaneously scrutinizing the general framework of institutions and human behaviors. Subversive potential always was variable, always asking, deconstructing, and reconfiguring itself, allowing new states of aggregation within diffuse interspaces and futures."
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LESPOINTS 008EP
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... Psilocybe argentipes, Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa, Psilocybe eucalypta, Psilocybe fimetaria, Psilocybe kumaenorum, Psilocybe mairei, Psilocybe mexicana, Psilocybe quebecensis, Psilocybe samuiensis, Panaeolus africanus, Panaeolus retirugis, Conocybe cyanopus, Gymnopilus luteus, Gymnopilus viridans, Inocybe calamistrata, Inocybe haemacta, Pluteus atricapillus, Pluteus nigroviridis ... "The function of mushrooms is to rid the world of old rubbish. The Buddha died a natural death." --John Cage.
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LESPOINTS 007LP
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Anthoms is a diverse experience through past sonic waves transformed in to future matters. Obscure dance music for everyone. Repetitive, expanding into human emotion - only possible via expressions and not sound-designs. Les Points aka Audino, Barbir, Louh & Nicola Kazimir.
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LESPOINTS 666LP
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Songs for eternal emptiness/happiness in gatefold sleeve from the Swiss Les Points collective. Avant-garde microhouse Anubis minimal 137-BPM house suprematisten hardcore minimal underground clicks 133 tempo glitch-house occult house nonrepresentational techno future-Satan-house acid minimal gabber clicks micro minimal club sounds pflotsch loops Crowley house fraktal minimal progressive redudanz repetitions loop minimal rave out-of-body techno micro suprematism minimal objective 666 pflotsch acid bleep suprematistic.
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LESPOINTS 005LP
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A quest for form which is never static and accompanied by two constants: repetition and reduction. Reduction requires repetition in order to make the intangible tangible for humans. This repetition also stimulates our perception and helps us find an inner self while illuminating the primal thought. Another synonym for "intangible" is "not human," for the most reductive of primal thoughts, sprung from fractal chance, does not deal with human beings but with a formal language that is universal, drawing from the innermost, and only becomes tangible in accidental, fortuitous moments. Our efforts to free this formal language, by means of fragmentation, from the human conventions that bind us to overabundance, turn out to be in our limited human perception a never-ending search for artistic discovery. Repetitive Juxtaposition takes up two individual, but in their essence mutual, interpretations of seeking and breaking form, and places them not opposite but next to each other. A split double LP of minimal, reductive electronic music by Barbir and Nicola Kazimir -- two sides per artist. Features a collaboration between Kazimir and Isherwood. Includes four locked groove remixes by STL.
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LESPOINTS 004EP
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It is benevolent repetition which frees us from the clutches of dullness. Ownership: A human misery. The Aeon of Horus explores the certainty of becoming God or to merge with Him, thought the fool's dog. The Rosy Cross -- the body is symbolized by the cross. The ego follows thee, it will not lead thee, but kill thou shalt it not also. Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI, to want, dare, can, keep quiet, obey. To become, thou shalt be at the same time nothing and yet anything. Includes a remix by Rozzo.
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LESPOINTS 003EP
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In his seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Automatic Reproducibility"("Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit", 1935/39), Walter Benjamin put forward the thesis that a work of art loses its aura due to reproducibility. In the past, artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol have explored this thesis, be it with counterfeit versions of their own works or with multiple reproduction of a work. "Il n'ya pas de crocodiles a Codody" takes up this discussion by questioning the very concept of an aura. Ultimately, there are (no) crocodiles in Codody. Remix by Kalabrese.
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LESPOINTS 002EP
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Barbir's low-output EP addresses the social constraint of the repetitive output. Whether creative or consumer, one will be seen as an eternal fountain, from which ideas (outputs) spring (Bruce Naumann Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966). His 3 low-outputs impress with a dodgy monotony, which is disturbed by small escapes/outbreaks. Those outbreaks throw the monotony off the grooves (life). With this method the artist consolidates his position against the norm. While the whole EP deals playfully with the normative, San Proper did not resist from creating a small escape/outbreak himself: instead of remixing a track as usual, the whole EP was interpreted in one track.
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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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