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 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 […]
CPLX 6 : k[A]l3utun ov[E]rdriv3 – H4cking Fantasma & Outras Bruxarias do C4os
Punk is an eruption. Overthrow. A negation of social class and privilege. No Gods! No Masters! Raw, explosive energy. But energy to what? How can punk tell stories? Make histories? Build new worlds? In the 1980s and 1990s, writers such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling gave us one answer to this question. By cross-breeding […]
CPLX 5 : Malena Stefano – Exercícios Espirituais
In performance, Malena Stefano presents a tall, thin, seemingly frail figure, nevertheless energized with a burning spiritual intensity : part Nephilim waif, part killer priest. (The first time we heard her DJ, she launched into her set with music from the Islamic State.) Live, she improvises, murmurs and sobs over glitchily pastoral electronic clouds. But […]
CPLX 4 : MC Bicho Bicha – Batidas de Animismo Futuro
A spectre is haunting the Anthropocene. The spectre of the Caribou Man. Kanipinikassikueu, who abandons the world of men to marry a wild creature of the forest, and who becomes humanity’s shape-shifting go-between, ambassador to the deep woods. It is the Caribou Master who provides the hunter with his catch. If negotiated with, with respect. […]