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Hard Drive Vinegar vol​.​1

by LST

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    From Low Company -

    Timely masterclass in sub/urban voidcraft from LST: seven (?) lunatic zoaners and rusted bio-mech dreamweapons “made in isolation from 2009 to the present day”. S'a buzz, more than ever, to behold muzik so attuned to the provisional and pliable nature of normality…as I listen now its impossible hallucinated geometries are fair ELECTRIFYING the stale air around me. Showing equal aptitude and appetite for spaceway-croozing kling klang and dirtbag DIY grind, Hard Drive Vinegar feels like haughty dub-burnished Irdial iso-electronics masticated to all fuck and coughed back up by some sorta Siltbreeze/Xpressway-ish black-hole-basement-mind/chaos-god... the whole thing rendered with both supreme slakka steez and an architextural sophistication that beggars belief. Its tracks are compact, to-the-point, effortlessly transporting, and, even at their most unhinged, strangely melodious.

    It demands to be listened to as a whole, but look out for ‘open after minimal pealing’, its uptight, Germanic art-decade pomp pummelled to dust by hypnagogic stresswaves; the whiplashing wavetable synths and demonic plainchant of ‘churchsun’, which kinda chimes with the ascetic medieval futurism of Gewissen and Werkbund'; and ‘thurspite’, a red-eyed, low-riding breakbeat brawler seemingly custom-built for nanged-up mekboyz n tankgurlz cruising the kinda brutal, lawless, resource-depleted Rover-style dirtscape that is just a tiny bit easier to imagine now than it was a few weeks ago.

    I know there’s a lot of projection going on at the moment (see: Businesslunch!) but Hard Drive Vinegar Vol. 1 is the kind of work which so absolutely seems to evoke, and be tooled-up for, OUR CURRENT PREDICAMENT, it’s hard to believe it hasn’t travelled back in time armed with forbidden knowledge of where we're all gonna end up, clues coded into its brittle beatz n glyphz…. Gonna take some more deciphering but we'd bet our last scrap of bogroll that the message is THE WORST IS YET TO COME.

    Absolute melter...highest possible recommendation!


    From Oxide Ostrich -

    LST (Tarquin Manek) has released a slew of donked-up tapes under various guises and as part of the trio F ingers; via Night People, the recently deceased Blackest Ever Black, and Australian labels Another Dark Day and Chapter Music. As the title suggests, Hard Drive Vinegar contains material that rotted inside Manek’s hard drive from 2009 – 2019. Its decade timespan is surprising for such a cohesive work, especially with a geographic spread of recording at home in Australia and after relocating to Berlin. One of its enigmatic charms lies in how it seems to disregard time and place in favour of its own conformity; especially pertinent now while concepts like distance and closeness are both futile and ever-blending together in omnipresence. Distant like our next-door neighbours hemmed in and invisible, who are as close as those in other communities, cities and continents. As the hourglass marks the disappearance of time in one realm to record its swelling growth in its subterranean other, the belly of the infinity sign rotates upwards.

    Hard Drive Vinegar sits somewhere between noise and ambient while transcending as neither. It rattles out loner beats, the occasional extinguished vocal sample or a dried up stream of radio static, billowing gently across a torn canopy of sporadic and disturbing synths, emptying itself in anticipation of another tranquil or unsettling pouring-out. It absorbs space negligibly, circulating it and returning it unconsumed. Such peculiar pacing is sardonically comforting during the lockdown. Like the streets, quieting and disquieting, the tape offers the compression and rarifaction of a vague anxiety building up and releasing.

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renaoz 03:09
zoaner sung backwards
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churchsun 04:30
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waoonga 01:24
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thurspite 04:29
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six gateways 04:00
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closeyreyes 01:56
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released October 26, 2020

Mastered by Tomas Bodén

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