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25—04—27
Gnomjogi – Habe sehr schwer
Insider haben es nicht leicht.
Lache, wenn es nicht zum weinen reicht.
Katzenmeditationen 1
25—04—19
A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature. Years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.
25—04—14
In the year 2150, an audacious fusion of the digital and the organic catalyzed a groundbreaking evolution in intelligence, blurring the once-clear demarcation between machine and life.
Encapsulated within ethereal bioreactors that mirror the complexity of natural ecosystems, this advanced intelligence transcends traditional technological limits. It expertly integrates organic components with complex algorithms to create ecosystems that are not only self-sustaining but also capable of evolving on their own.
With its network of micro-sensors woven into the very fabric of these ecosystems, the artificial bio-intelligence monitors and manipulates environmental variables with a finesse that seems almost magical. It adapts in real time to climatic shifts, fostering biodiversity and resilience through a symphony of biological and digital harmony.
More than just mirroring nature’s complexity, this creation amplifies it, giving rise to hyper-diverse habitats previously only imaginable. A testament to human creativity, it represents a new era where technology and ecology merge into a magnificent tapestry of renewed life. Here’s to the future, where our planet’s restoration is guided by an intelligence as boundless as the cosmos itself.
“The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode OST” is the original soundtrack for “The Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode“, a mythological Larry Wish short film originally created in 2011. “The Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode” was going to be the first of many episodes of a TV show centered around the hapless character of unknown age Larry Wish as he goes to school each day. The aim of the Pilot Episode was to depict a typical day in the life of Larry before his first day of school, introducing his dysfunctional family members as well as a bit of the Larry Wish world, set in the fictional town of Bin. The intended tone was to be a difficult blend of ominous and whimsical, featuring members of the Minneapolis/St. Paul arts and underground music scene as main cast, repeat characters, and one-off cameos.
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“The Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode” was shot and edited in the winter of 2010/2011 by Sam Cramer, Tim Hudson, and Adam Wish-Werven, and it was released in May of 2011 as a production of the Soothing Almonds Collective multidisciplinary arts group. There was one public screening at the venue Nick & Eddie in Minneapolis for the “Larry Wish Pilot Episode Soundtrack Release Show”, as well as a private screening at the underground Medusa DIY space. An incomplete version of the episode was uploaded to comedy entertainment website Funny or Die that did not contain the “Chuck Stinkie” or “Senuter Butthole Johnson” scenes, and it was later removed from the website after amassing nearly 500 views. A limited run of DVDs were made and distributed locally, and the copies have been all but lost to the ages. The project was not pursued past the Pilot Episode, but Bumpy is now (sort of) pleased to rerelease the complete and re-constructed short film and its accompanying soundtrack as “The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode” and “The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode OST”, respectively.
“‘The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode’ is not suitable for children and will not be enjoyed by all viewers. My intent was to create a unique and imperfectly disturbing world, be weird and gross, and push boundaries that quite frankly didn’t need to be pushed by a blacked-out-drunk 21 year old guy. There are many topics and scenes presented that we thought were good ideas to approach then, and though I really appreciate this project and the time spent making it for my own personal journey of awareness, I can’t see myself being happy with continuing the project as we had planned. I think it’s ultimately better that we didn’t make any more and that the project fizzled out, leaving just the blurry Pilot Episode and the half memories of making something exciting with my friends.” (Adam Wish-Werven)
“The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode OST” was recorded February 2011 at Organ Haus in Minneapolis, MN by Adam Wish-Werven with the Yamaha PortaSound PSS-580 digital synthesizer. It was recorded onto tape using a TASCAM Porta 02 mkII Ministudio 4-Track Cassette Recorder. The album was remastered for reissue digitally and for limited cassette release on Bumpy by Adam Wish-Werven in 2024.
25—04—09
“No less deep, in fact debatably deeper still, Ghost Dubs aka Michael Fiedler returns after the runaway success of his highly acclaimed ‘Damaged’ LP(‘Dub/Reggae album of the year’ for 2024 in The Wire Magazine), with ‘Extended Damaged Versions’. Six dubbed out
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Reworks of tracks from last year’s album, deconstructed by the man himself, again for The Bug’s PRESSURE label(NB Only two mixes have been previously available digitally, ‘Chemical Version’ and the haunting steppa ‘Wired Version’). It will drop both digitally in full,
and subsequently on vinyl in March 2025.
Kickin off with the irresistible seismic grind of ‘Dub Regulator’, a dancefloor driven beast that miraculously eclipses the original mix, the opening cut increases in weight and intensity seductively, upping the fx drenched madness with its incessant droid hypnotics. The mini album’s mutant dub techno relentlessly probes, stretches and disfigures all of the previous originals, version by version, on this fascinating follow up release to ‘Damaged’. As Fiedler surgically splices and dices his own original source material into successively more warped variants, gleefully atomizing the originals into molten space echo fragments.
‘Thin Dub’ is a masterclass in simultaneous saturation and evaporation, wilfully liquified in the heart of the echo chamber. Anyone already smitten by ‘Damaged'(ie Pole, JK Flesh, Echospace, Valentina Magaletti etc have all graciously, recently acknowledged its greatness), will definitely find further reverb drenched nourishment on ‘Chemical Version’,
which releases a whirlpool of heavily sedated delay trails, and ends up sounding like a wall of sound mirage, vaguely resembling prime Porter Ricks at their sub aquatic peak.
Finally, the ambient pulsations of ‘Lobotomy Version’ sets the album adrift in deepest space, as this superbly crafted collection reflects Michael Fiedler doing what he does best, getting lost in his own mixing desk sorcery, whilst reflecting the captivating morphology of his live
shows, where he magically revamps his heavyweight tracks into pure voodoo, casting spells effortlessly….Not an attempt to just milk ‘Damaged’, ‘EDV’ is itself a standalone triumph, an invaluable transformation of the original album’s material into an epic, fresh, dub odyssey.
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25—04—05
Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks, he incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies and realities. During his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.
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Mark Templeton’s reinterpretation of outdated media as musical instruments makes him a compelling artist for the Faitiche label roster. For his debut on Faitiche, he browsed his old hard drives and invited Andrew Pekler to listen through and co-produce a selection of Mark’s unreleased works. The compositions act as a series of snapshots: a look back at a decade of archived sounds, re-envisioned and re-imaged for Faitiche.
The album contains nine tracks that follow an AB song structure. Each piece begins with verse A, transitions into verse B, and then ends. This simple formula creates a dichotomy that is also present in Mark’s diptych photographs, featured in the artwork. Throughout the album, both juxtaposition and inherent connections are simultaneously at play. One way or another, Two Verses provides a beginner’s guide to Mark Templeton’s highly idiosyncratic catalog.
25—04—05
New Album by Voyage Futur
Krampus would like to say:
Not a re-release.
Not a repress.
Not an old album repurposed into vinyl.
An actual new Vinyl Album Release.
Brought you by the Underground.
Happy Krampus Day.
25—04—01
“A career best from Kim Hiorthøy” – Boomkat
More than a decade after his last full album, Kim Hiorthøy returns with Ghost Note, out on March 21 via the Belgian label Blickwinkel. Though his music has quietly existed in the background—shaping contemporary dance, film, and theatre—this album brings it into focus once more. Ghost Note is an exploration of sound on the edge of presence and absence, a fictional world that is both constructed and organic.
Using mostly digital technology, Hiorthøy created a set of instruments that are real—you can hear them, they have tone, timbre, and resonance—but also not. The percussion, for instance, sounds like cheap scrap metal drums. But are they real? Do they exist? Hiorthøy plays with perception, challenging what feels real and what feels like a memory. In doing so, Ghost Note becomes an invitation to embrace uncertainty and indefinability.
“It’s a kind of foggy area between theatre and daily life. Ghost notes. I wanted to try to make music that existed in this in-between space. Electronic music that is acoustic, a kind of emotional music that also hides in abstraction (or the other way around), and to try to make tracks that were sort of falling apart as I was making them.” – Kim Hiorthøy
25—04—01
