Nicolò Arpinati Įxaland's tracks sound massive and do an outstanding impact on a big system. Moving between cascades of sharp beats, furious hailstorms of digital noise and ambient fragments, Exaland is HD music at its best. This is a record that recalls the end-of-days frenzies of artists like Mana, Ben Frost and even Arca.

Even the vinyl is the same as the standard releases nothing extra other than the box and artwork, which for me as someone who likes to have complete sets really frustrates me. Giddy, playfully rhythm-driven electronica. 1000 copies of this, really For a release this big where the majority of people want it in a box set that's pathetically low. Kick I was presented with four singles: 'Nonbinary', 'Time', 'Mequetrefe', and 'KLK' featuring Rosala. Recorded between Barcelona and London, the album was released on 26 June 2020 through XL Recordings. Hendrik van Boetzelaer zweikommasieben magazineīleepy un-ambient, Max/MSP core, brooding (neo)cosmic/synth and tripping, phonk-informed electronica for those in the know. Kick I (stylized as KiCk i pronounced 'kick one' 5) is the fourth studio album by Venezuelan electronic record producer Arca. On Exaland, the collective explores corners of digitally warped spaces of intensities, which end up sounding like a mix of Sophie meets Lorenzo Senni.

SPIME.IM use technology, 3D art and electronic music to weave immersive audio-video experiences. If the Being is therefore the object of the intertwining between the real and the virtual, then it becomes possible to create new imaginaries that turn into immersive environments and narrative spaces in which artificial and natural, science and humanity, imagination and reality interpenetrate, giving life to new boundaries to be explored, to experience the own consciousness and what, while invisible to our eyes, surrounds and influences us.Īffirming digital reality, the Turin-based media art collective SPIME.IM explores the boundaries and possibilities of identity and perception in a world where virtual doppelgängers take on an all-encompassing position. SPIME.IM was born as a word pun between the concept theorized by Bruce Sterling - the spime for the note, an object that can be traced through space and time for the duration of its existence - and the contraction of English I am. A story about a cool mellow surfer girl, who is cool on water, but clumsy on land, two dim-witted robots, an annoying yellow rabbit, a guy who acts like a brave leader but is a coward inside, a well-mannered man who is a butler and is smarter than the people he works for which are cats, but mostly its about a creature who is half lizard, half. Just as SPIME.IM's live performances, this album is a temporarily linear journey through a narrative space shaped by psychedelic landscapes, synthetic colors, mutating objects and transient life-forms. The seven tracks are defined by razor-like sounds, crystal textures and digital overload, captured in those weightless seconds on a parabolic flight. Originally released in collaboration with. Their album Exaland synthesizes reality by combining human expression with technological potentialities in an infinitely changeable virtual world. With the 2013 mixtape &, Arca announced a bold new force in electronic music.

Imagination and reality, science and humanity: SPIME.IM weave their audiovisual tales from the ethereal textures that shape our worlds.

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