Available Data - Streaming NOW
It's 2025 friends! Congratulations for getting through 2024. That was something, huh.
Today, easing into the new year with a couple of sensibly-tempoed bangers, we're happy to announce the release-to-streaming of Available Data, the third EP from our Wreckage Systems project.
Here's what noted music critics (us) had to say about it:
Available Data is an other-worldly, episodic journey through vast landscapes of sound, narrated by kick drums. Enveloped in a mist made of a billion tiny sawtooths, oceans of sines undulate as melodies drift through the purple sky like lanterns, clouds flickering like burnt out cathode rays. Sub bass causes earthquakes, dragging up beats from deep down in the valleys of nostalgia. They scrape their way to the surface and metallicize upon contact with the thick air, fracture themselves into new rhythms. Jagged spikes of sculpted electricity punch their intentions out of the earth and become mountains. You find new ways of moving in here, new ways of breathing.
Like all the Wreckage EPs, this was written asynchronously and across borders during various states of lockdown, Paul based in Berlin while Simon, Rob and Joe were hunkered down in Sheffield. As the spring of 2021 flickered sunshine across our various half-lit bases, cabin fever led us to construct this sonic behemoth: a kind of battering ram made of kick drums, synths, side chains and reverb sculptures, to punch a hole out of reality and into daydreams.
Why not get it burnt to a CDR, find a warehouse, install a PA, wire up a couple of CDJs, invite a crowd who have a fondness for Orbital and Underworld, turn everything up, and give it a listen?
The actual Available Data system running on the Wreckage Systems stream seems to be a bit of a fan favourite. The first half of 'V4', the opening track of this EP, is a mixed and massaged version pulled straight from the generative system; the second half was put together manually before being deconstructed and fed back into the generative system to make what you can occasionally hear on the stream. Clocking in at just shy of 16 minutes, V4 is possibly (? not gonna check) the longest 65daysofstatic song, but —we promise— there is not a single wasted note. It's like if a whale was a shark, but with the disposition of a dolphin. INTENTIONAL. 'V5' meanwhile is an even more streamlined version, with a radio-friendly runtime of just under seven minutes. Classic pop song length.
Versions 1 - 3? What happened to them? Searching through the 65 hard drive archives, it still remains unclear. There is no sign of them anywhere. Perhaps they escaped. Please report any sightings to the relevant authorities (us).
OTHER BUSINESS
- Back in summer of 2024, Rob's other band Haus Horo played a show inside a crypt in Sheffield, and Si's solo project NVLL was the support, with a modular synth and cassette deck live show. A couple of weeks ago he dropped a fresh performance of the same session, recorded entirely live at 65HQ. Check it out in full here. (And his Bandcamp has some other of his solo releases too.)
- Paul's newsletter, The Komoy Noise Reseach Unit (K.N.R.U.) wrapped up its 2024 dispatches with some venting about the various evils of spotify and an overview of some of the more substantial posts/projects from The K.N.R.U's inaugural year. Check that out if you're interested in slightly more regular 65-adjacent writing than is currently forthcoming on this, our main broadcast channel.
- Next month will be the FINAL release-to-streaming of these lesser-heard 65daysofstatic releases from recent years. That one is called MIMIK and if you can't wait for it to hit streaming, it is available on our Bandcamp now.
- If you're still hungry for more 65daysofstatic material then remember you can sign up for the 65LABS Patreon (there's a very cheap tier now - just £2.50 per month), which gets you access to the 65LABS archive and helps us maintain the Wreckage Systems live stream. You'll find so much in there that will never hit the streaming services, either because it's too illegal (live bootlegs, changeover mixes), too complicated contractually (old Wild Light demos), too weird (soooo many things) or just because we still wanted to hold something back for 65LABS supporters (the Wreckage Systems exclusive album Debris).
- Oh yeah and the entire A Year of Wreckage collection (twelve EPs) is on our Bandcamp too, just in case the two 'best of' AYOW albums Utopian Frequencies and Disquiet aren't comprehensive enough for you.
INTO 2025
We aren't going to make any promises we can't keep, and being in a band at this level of commercial 'success' does not get any easier with the passing of time. But we remain very invested in the plight of this curious and melodramatic noise-making machine we have cultivated over the last couple of decades. So... let's see!
Thank you for sticking around, friends. Good luck out there.
65.x
