Pole :: Tempus Remixes (Mute) — [concise]
Tempus Remixes (Mute, 2023) is a collection of four remixes from Pole’s Tempus (Mute, 2022), featuring Sleaford Mods, Rrose, and Alessandro Cortini.
Tempus Remixes (Mute, 2023) is a collection of four remixes from Pole’s Tempus (Mute, 2022), featuring Sleaford Mods, Rrose, and Alessandro Cortini.
Featuring six formidable contributors—illektrolab, ADJ, Pablo Funk, Errorbeauty, Syrte, and Francois Dillinger—each brings a distinct sonic identity, weaving between robotic rhythms and darker electro-mechanical textures.
These soundscapes exist within a delicate balance of fragility, inchoate shape and form yet held together with a structure and purpose set forth by the composer himself. It bears repeated listenings which will bear different fruit each time, and comes highly recommended.
It is wonderful to see YUYAY back releasing. It is a label that has always sought out eclectic and open styles, refusing genre pigeonholes in its pursuit of lesser heard music. XY0815’s This Tool Has No Options is a sure expression of this mandate. An LP that took its cue from the past with tracks that will undoubtedly continue to sound fresh for years to come.
Swimming together in the tangential downpour of torrential media percussion and repercussion, all of this material can be considered as an excavation of a lost futurist consciousness.
Here, he dives headfirst into bold ideas and uneasy experimentations, echoing the spirit of fellow sonic explorers like Kim Cascone and Francisco López—both of whom he has collaborated with under the banner of his boundary-pushing label, Nexsound.
This tribute is for Pete Namlook. To honor his memory, I brought together several artists who had worked with him or released music on his label. It has been an intense labor of love spanning nearly two years, and I am profoundly grateful to everyone who contributed their sounds, their hearts, and their spirit to this project. ~Lorenzo Montanà
As fragmented, scattered rhythms flutter through the landscape, the depth and intricacy of Bunker Symphonies II reveals a generative flow that never feels forced.
The level of meticulous detail embedded in AE-13 suggests months of thoughtful curation, with emotive swells and shifts lingering in the background, shaping a pair of tracks that exude a sense of refined craftsmanship.