In the 10 years since its inception as a spin-off from founder and principal programmer Eufrasio Prates’s doctorate research in 2012, the Brasilia Laptop Orquestra has become both a regular institution on the Brasiliense experimental and electronic scene, and an uncompromising and challenging pioneer of new compositional ideas and technologies. The orchestra itself is a […]
CPLX 16 : The City and the Gallery
A playlist, originally for the Museu Nacional da República in Brasilia, selected in mid 2020 by the artist / curator : Gisel Carriconde Azevedo. It’s list of artists who all have connections with the Brasilia electronic scene. Including several artists who have released on, or are friends of, this label The theme of the mix […]
CPLX 15 : Ghales / K-Torrent / euFraktus X – Enantiodromia
In late 2019, a group of Brasiliense musicians – including members of the Brasilia Laptop Orchestra (BSBLOrk) and Nomade Lab – were invited by the Alfinete Gallery to improvise a dialogue with an installation by Milton Marques. The work consisted of a motorized disk, coated with loose plaster powder. As the disk rotated, it was […]
CPLX 14 : Lionuki – O Único Caminho é a Frente
Maybe it was inevitable that Dionysian Industrial Complex would be offered, and enthusiastically accept, a vaporwave concept album about Posadists: the extreme Trotskyite sect turned internet meme factory, notorious for their belief in Communist UFOs, the necessity of nuclear war, weightless birth research and human-dolphin communication. Vaporwave, and its cosy but uncanny British cousin, “hauntology” […]
CPLX 13 : Mentufacturer featuring Biophillick – Serpiente Neón
Mentufacturer describes himself as “an industrial kid who grew up to admit his love for melodic mantras”. When not working behind the scenes as one of Dionysian Industrial Complex’s founders / curators, he tries to make good on that claim with a series of quirky EPs that combine clattery and cluttered percussion with yearning melodic […]
CPLX 12 : Tiwanaku Tekno – Gate of the Sun
Some EPs require years of research and development, careful refinement and revision. Respectful analysis and improvement. This EP is not one of them. Banged out quickly over a weekend, after Tiwanaku Tekno had spent a couple of days blagging samples of pre-hispanic instruments off of random YouTube videos for another project, Gate of the Sun […]
CPLX 11 : euFräktus / biophillick / djalgoritmo – }bio{borgs
The rational world dissolves into a chaotic soup of fakeness and disinformation. Surveillance is freedom. Conspiracy is knowledege. And politics is the plaything of “hyperleaders” : anarchic outsiders, who paradoxically leverage social media blitzkrieg into authoritarian power. Artists turn to dystopian science fiction for, maybe solace, maybe a vocabulary to express their horror and bewilderment […]
CPLX 10 : Phillip Häxan – Lines
A new phase of releases on Dionysian Industrial. We welcome Phillip Häxan who produces murky darkwave pop : slick indigo, coral and deep crimson digital arrangements, slathered in lo-fi gloom and topped with Häxan’s own disturbingly wobbly and processed baritone vocals. A Pete Murphy minotaur, wailing sorrowfully, as he shuffles through the endless dark corridors […]
CPLX 9 : Global Ear for The Wire
A “Global Ear” report and playlist for the UK music magazine, The Wire. The report covers Brasiliense artists and groups such as Cigarras, the Brasilia Laptop Orchestra (BSBLOrk), SCLrN and Karla Testa, as well as artists from the label. And the playlist features tracks from them, plus all the current Dionysian Industrial artists and other […]
CPLX 8 : euFräktus – XperiMetal
EuFräktus is a three headed monster; an unholy trinity. Three persons in one. One person in three. Schizocitizen. By day, avant-garde academic. Founder and leader of the Brasilia Laptop Orchestra, developing software guided by holofractal semiotics, quantum physics and neuroscience. By night, a skeletal metal guitarist. A lich axeman on stage, patiently pounding the audience […]