new.com – imagine the truth – com06

12″ 33rpm black vinyl: limited to 150 triple hand-numbered copies, w/ printed cover, inlay sheet, sticker & download code

>>> AL WOOTTON playing “zerostar” on rinse.fm on february 11, 2023 [check: 49:00:00]
>>> ORSON playing “zerostar” on callshop radio on march 1, 2023 [check: 05:50:00]
>>> NEW-dot-COM playing “calistenics” in comfortnoise podcast 108 [check: 33:20:00]

>>> order with redeye or juno or deejay

Dubwise, club-oriented, futuristic bass music you haven’t heard yet: “Calistenics” varies a pattern of drums with bass. Reduced like reggae versions in the past, however exploring a yet unknown urban atmosphere. “Zerostar” raises darkness to light in a stripped-down, melancholic garage temper. An invitation to drift wherever your unconsciousness allows you to. “Gadabout” teaches an erratically pounding, obscure philosophy. Right on the dancefloor. “Airgrit” finally cultivates its very own, introvert variant of melodic techno. At the low end, it is nursing a rumble you won’t properly esteem, unless you play it on your better monitors. Or preferably on a proper sound system, just as the other tracks.

Imaginative, comprehensive, exploratory rhythms and sounds. Again, they are inspired by pertinent, game-changing science fiction literature. Written by remarkably socially critical rather than tech affine authors such as Octavia E. Butler (com03 & com04), David Mitchell (com05), and Ursula K. Le Guin. Like the latter and her character Ai Genly (in the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness, 1969) say: “The truth is a matter of the imagination.”

Cover picture: second articulated vehicle of double-heading tram line 13 after derailing and tilting in slow motion at Wipkingerbrücke in Zurich/Switzerland on 28 April 1971 (© ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv). 

release date: March, 2023

comfortnoise.com
all tracks w & p by Marius Neukom
mixed by Lino Schilling & Marius Neukom
mastered by Adi Flück at Centraldubs
artwork by Stillhart Konzept

p & c 2022 com06