release date: friday, may 16, 2025
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the scottish artist alsdair gray (1934-2019) is a ninth-generation ecological fox. his novel lanark: a life in four books (1981) is considered a masterpiece of weird, realist fiction and surreal, dystopian storytelling.
u-1 flight by new-dot-com goes in kind of the same direction with its five tunes that boldly explore the realms of edgy techno, heavy bass, and trippy dub. they handle factual basses, kicks, snares, claps, hi-hats, and devious sonic shapes and reassemble them into diverse, thoroughly fictitious textures, structures, and ruptures.
“the u-1 flight from unthank may proceed to hampden as planned on beam co- beam co- beam coordinate zero flux zero parahelion 43 minutes 19 point nought 7 seconds epihelion ditto neg- ditto neg- ditto negating impetus reversal flow 22 point nought 2- nought 2- nought 2- nought 2- nought 2 beyond the equinoctial of quebus on the international nerve – national nerve – national nerve-circuit-decimal-calendar-cortexin-quantum-clock. message understood? over.” (chapter 40: provan)
clever as a fox, the narrator goes down his own road and sees what happens along the way. and how does lanark react to the cited announcement?
“it sounds like gibberish to me…”
all tracks w & p by marius neukom
mixed by lino schilling & marius neukom
mastered by beau thomas @ 1087
p & c 2025 com09