The perfect soundtrack to your next doomscrolling session. A new double disc anthology set from Rephlex alumni Bogdan Raczynski, which pairs his critically-acclaimed 2024 album, 'You’re Only Young Once But You Can Stupid Forever', with the 2025 companion set (previously only available digitally), 'Slow Down Stupid'.
The main album is a collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo-fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping-pong percussion. Mojo called it ““a satisfyingly lo-fi, fragile creation, it’s a nuanced, multi-layered insight into Raczynski’s increasingly becalmed world.” whilst DJ Mag said “By stripping the music to the barest sketetal parts, he discovers a more subtle, yet equally confounding beauty. It’s one worth taking from start to finish.”
On the second disc, the producer stretches out the material into even more languid sonic pastures, a cheeky deconstruction of both the ‘slowed and reverbed’ phenomenon, and the endless relax/yoga/meditation app/playlist hustle beaming from one dystopian tech platform to the next.
The main album is a collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo-fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping-pong percussion. Mojo called it ““a satisfyingly lo-fi, fragile creation, it’s a nuanced, multi-layered insight into Raczynski’s increasingly becalmed world.” whilst DJ Mag said “By stripping the music to the barest sketetal parts, he discovers a more subtle, yet equally confounding beauty. It’s one worth taking from start to finish.”
On the second disc, the producer stretches out the material into even more languid sonic pastures, a cheeky deconstruction of both the ‘slowed and reverbed’ phenomenon, and the endless relax/yoga/meditation app/playlist hustle beaming from one dystopian tech platform to the next.
TRACK LISTING
CD1 - You’re Only Young Once But You Can Stupid Forever:
1. Gearee
2. Newdiv
3. Fairalign
4. Coughyspns
5. Bangsaft
6. Djstus
7. Hundrecision
8. Zownthram
9. Visionsrevisions
10. Bowgh
11. Fallybli
12. Faq
13. Yewt
14. Shttwobe
15. Sicksicksicks
16. Deweyedair
17. Rew
18. Gauq
CD2 - Slow Down Stupid:
1. Order Is A Fig
2. Meant For Our Imagination
3. What Is Real Is Blood
4. The Lengths The Worst Will Go
5. To Say She Hates It
6. Say It Before
7. Say It After
8. If Smart Is In Charge
9. Let Me Be
10. Stupid Forever
11. Slow Down