CPLX22 : FR[A]CKist3nZ – tRiSTes eNTrÓpiCOs
tRiSTes eNTrÓpiCOs by FR[A]CKist3nZ k[A]l3utun 0v[E]rdr1v3 is back. This time with a new alias : FR[A]CKist3nZ. A portmanteau-word, combining elements of “Fractal”, “Hacker” and Cronenberg’s “Existenz”. The Fractal comes from euFräktus’s “holofractal” software, created for the Brasilia Laptop Orchestra which k[A]l3utun 0v[E]rdr1v3 has adopted. But rather than using it, as intended (as live improvisation), he […]
Read MoreCPLX21 : Gilbert Lister Research – Mentufacturer chases the Green Fairy
Mentufacturer chases the Green Fairy by Gilbert Lister Research Electronic musician Mentufacturer is currently investigator-in-residence at Gilbert Lister Research, an online micro-laboratory researching melody and music software. (dionysian-industrial-complex.net/cplx20-gilbert-lister-research-micro-laboratory/) Even before this tenure, he had started exploring melodies and the chord progressions that underlie them, mainly through self-written code in the programming languages Sonic Pi, Haskell […]
Read MoreCPLX 19 : Duo42 – Colapsamento #1: For Peace
Colapsamento #1: For Peace by Dionysian Industrial Complex Two armies prepare and train in secret. Each refining its tactics and strategies. Each forced to second guess the skills and actions of the other. But all is hypothetical – a cloud of ignorance – until the moment, known only to one side, that an assault is […]
Read MoreCPLX 18 : BSBLOrk – 10 aNos aoVivo / 10 yEars aLive
10 aNos aoVivo / 10 yEars aLive by BSBLOrk 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 […]
Read MoreCPLX 15 : Ghales / K-Torrent / euFraktus X – Enantiodromia
Enantiodromia by Ghales / K-Torrent / euFraktus X 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 […]
Read MoreCPLX 14 : Lionuki – O Único Caminho é a Frente
O Único Caminho é a Frente by Lionuki 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, […]
Read MoreCPLX 13 : Mentufacturer featuring Biophillick – Serpiente Neón
Serpiente Neón by Mentufacturer featuring Biophillick 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 […]
Read MoreCPLX 12 : Tiwanaku Tekno – Gate of the Sun
Gate of the Sun by Tiwanaku Tekno 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 […]
Read MoreCPLX 11 : euFräktus / biophillick / djalgoritmo – }bio{borgs
}bio{borgs by eufraktus / biophillick / djalgoritmo 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 […]
Read MoreCPLX 10 : Phillip Häxan – Lines
Lines by Phillip Häxan 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 […]
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