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Thug Entrancer

Arcology

    A narrative of an imagined alien colony existing between the fabric of known / unknown worlds, Thug Entrancer’s 'Arcology' explores high tech / low life society, mechanical structures, and data-driven humanity in an evocative techno framework.

    Though 'Arcology' was conceived in a similar improvisational womb as Ryan McRyhew’s debut, the new album moves subtly from free-form footworkouts of 'Death After Life' with an expanded palette vibrating brightly with melodic deployment.

    “Curaga” and “Exo-Memory” triumph over established 303 / 808 interplay with uplifting melodies - ear-worms from outer space; “Bronze” pumps dub-tectonics within a minimalist reduction of Death After Life's modus operandi. Lighter than most of McRyhew’s output, album interludes “Low-Life”, “VR-Urge” and the finale, “Xeno”, beam satellite ballads through alien atmospheres.

    “Ryan is a rare breed of producer+thinker who is able to hallucinate worlds beyond his music that recursively influence his sound. His understanding of science fiction's speculative potential combined with a virtuosic ability to program hardware synthesizers make him a techno fantasist of the highest order.” - Dan Lopatin

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: This one came out of the blue for me actually. Despite being a big fan of Oneohtrix Point Never, I hadn't heard of this upcoming release on his 'Software' label. Ironically, this release is distinctly hardware, and it sounds like it. Pumping acid basslines, ambient passages and LOTS of attitude. Just obtuse enough to be interesting but without alienating anyone who likes a bit of old-school.Including a 303, 404, all the other numbers, and all the fun.

    Suicideyear

    Remembrance

      'Remembrance' is the Software Recording Co. debut from Baton Rouge's Suicideyear (born James Prudhomme). Written and produced between Florida and Louisiana during the summer and fall of 2013, 'Remembrance' recalls those southern US landscapes and Prudhomme’s experiences across eight songs equally intimate, intoxicating and mercurial.

      We first fell in love with Suicideyear by way of his Japan mixtape, a remarkable convergence of ATL trap beats and mid-late century American minimalism that turned and twisted more than a few heads. Software's own label head Daniel Lopatin was privy to an eerily similar convergence at an All Tomorrow’s Parties festival one year earlier in which two performers, Big Boi and Terry Riley, converged at a nearby Burger King. When James revealed his childhood adoration for Speakerboxxx, we knew it was on.

      Prudhomme wrote 'Remembrance' while reflecting on themes of love and loss against the backdrop of the deep American south he calls home.

      James’ experiences of reflection and resolution led to the vivid, emotionally charged production that makes up 'Remembrance'. Alive with an idiosyncratic sense of melodic space, his repertoire eschews a topical palette for a personal aesthetic that offers a visceral love letter to abstraction. Prudhomme references both forms we know to exist and speculates on how they can be newly realised.

      Wake Up Awesome, by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Okkyung Lee, and Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkamer), is the second chapter of Software Studio Series - a new venture in the Software Recording Co.'s expanding catalog that invites artists in the field of electronic music to create collaborative works of quality and vision. Inspired by the historical intersections of live performance and studio post-production, Wake Up Awesome is a modern kind of fusion in technique as well as genre. At its core are three artists highly experienced with both instant and labored composition. Together, they found the studio generated improvisations were iteratively developed by each on their own.

      Passages of real-time improvisation duck and swerve into electro-concrete tangles of samples, edits and juxtaposition – all you'd want out of a world of mechanical possibility. If it sounds intentional on the record, it was. If Yeh and Marhaug's more electronic affinities in their respective practices place them as the "producers," then Lee's cello often leads the drive as a sort of soloist.

      The resulting conversation is genuinely both serious and iconoclastic. All three artists have a history of dialogue, but this is the first time they've hung out for the record -- we're very happy that they did.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Wake Up Awesome
      2. Hairslide
      3. The Mermen Of Poetry
      4. Ophelia Gimme Shelter
      5. The Mermaids Of Extended Technique
      6. Magic Seagull Lamp
      7. Mission: Lazy
      8. Mission: Nothing
      9. Throw Down The Fishcake
      10. Neutrons Whatever
      11. Serious Cat's Milk
      12. Anise Tongue And Durian Wet Dream
      13. Mission: Possible
      14. RSVP Skunk
      15. Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives


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