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REFINED 001EP
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The label Refined Productions was launched by Aleksandra Grünholz, graphic designer and producer as We Will Fail, and Jakub Mikolajczyk, head of MonotypeRec label and MonotypePressing. The concept is to run a "slow label", to not get caught in the trends but to stop, watch, listen, feel, and think, then listen again. We Will Fail's Schadenfreude includes two original tracks and two remixes from like-minded IDM experimentalists such as Ziúr and Eomac. Aleksandra's released two albums, Verstorung (MONO 074CD, 2014) and Hand That Heals/Hand That Bites (MONO 104CD/MONO 022LP, 2016). Includes printed inner sleeve; Includes download code.
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REFINED 002EP
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We Will Fail follow Schadenfreude (REFINED 001EP), the first EP on Refined Productions, with Very Urgent. It will feature one original track and remixes from M.E.S.H., Peder Mannerfelt, and Kangding Ray. The label Refined Productions was launched by Aleksandra Grünholz, graphic designer and producer as We Will Fail, and Jakub Mikolajczyk, head of Monotype. The concept is to run a "slow label" to not get caught in the trends but to stop, watch, listen, feel and think, then listen again. Their goal is to reset the pace of electronic music output and create little gems.
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RMSG 016CD
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David Toop on Haco's Qoosui: "Weightless, not so much a voice from heaven but a voice that swirls in liquidity, water spirit, a world and a time in which humans, plants, animals and weather could communicate in multiple tongues through the barriers that separate living entities, the world of Apitchatpong Weerasthakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), in which a catfish with erotic powers speaks to a princess, a world in which spirits could be heard whispering in forest glades, in spider's webs and waterfalls, from the hidden places of bright tiled rooms filled with emptiness and the yellow fizzing of neon strips. Henry J. Farny painted 'The Song of the Talking Wire' in 1904: a Lakota Sioux hunter stops in the snow, pressing his ear to a telegraph pole to listen to the humming of its wires. For his model, Farny sketched a religious man named Long Day or Long Dog, who spoke about hearing spirit voices over the wires, an experience he then used to bolster his claims to being a spiritual leader. One hundred years later, Haco listened through contact microphones to the spirit voices inaudibly (to unaided human perception) emanating from CD-R drives, mobile phones, wireless routers and similar sources of electromagnetic waves, enacting the cyborgian reworking of nature and culture of Donna J. Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto (1984). 'Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves,' Haraway wrote. 'This is a dream not of a common language, but of a powerful infidel heteroglossia.' The siren song is weightless, blissful, but also flightless -- always connected to the body whose aurality must be blocked to survive its seduction..."
Haco has received recognition internationally as the founder, singer, lyricist, and composer of the legendary avant-pop group, After Dinner, one of the first Japanese indie bands to tour abroad and to receive the unanimous praise in the 1980s. Hailed as one of the first female proponents of onkyo, Haco has made field recording environmental sounds from daily life and used them as materials in her composing, programming, and mixing. "A founding member of the legendary band After Dinner, Haco is one of the most versatile vocalists in the Japanese indie scene." --John Zorn
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