MIMIK - Streaming NOW
And so, it ends the only way a 65daysofstatic project can ever really end: in glitchy beats, unwieldy noise and massive kick drums.
Today, as we all spiral further into a year perhaps more terrifying than all previous years combined, we are happy to announce the release-to-streaming of MIMIK, the fourth and final EP from our Wreckage Systems project.
MIMIK is here to fix up your existential wounds, like a bandage made of concrete. Architectural techno-solace, a scaffolding of surety and safety. A brutalist cathedral, its roof of reverb held aloft and shimmering on columns of sub bass. A powerhouse of intention and that intention is: what if dancing but in 7/8? Come in, and welcome. Let the waveforms embrace you. Shelter here from the storm, then make one of your own.
Here is what we wrote at the time of its original release to Bandcamp:
This EP is an ode to the spaces, both physical and liminal, mostly denied to us during these pandemic years. Let the repetitive beats move you and climb into whatever era of nostalgia they trigger in your head.
Not really much to add to that, other than it seems like a lot of those spaces never really came back, did they? And you can tell we had succumbed to cabin fever because rarely do we treat nostalgia as anything other than the enemy.
And yet, bleak as the years of pandemic and lockdown were, it is surely worth clinging onto that moment early on when we all got a glimpse of a world where nation states had to gather all their innate power and logistical dexterity to, y'know, keep people alive instead of serve the interests of capital. And it even kind of worked despite all the idiots running things. Such is the latent power of public infrastructure and organised humanity. It was the briefest of demonstrations that showed how the world could be made differently if we just decide to do it, and one that scared the billionaires so much that now they're desperately dismantling every public institution they can get their hands on because they think that will stop them from ever being challenged again. They need us to believe that there's no alternative, it has to be this way, that it's everyone for themselves. But it's not true. The rest of us are all in it together, and another world is still possible.
Where were we? Oh yeah, MIMIK. Here are the tracks:
- Mimik (Brln) - Bruising techno straight from the Steel City, chopped into utilitarian rhythms from the untethered, wild source material that is 'Mimik (Original)'. The noise of an absent summer.
- So Long, Linearity! - This was actually written back during the Wild Light sessions, so it's probably around 12 years old at this point, though it sounds even older. Dirty 90s breaks, grimey rave synths and some marimba, obvs.
- Synth Ascend - This song was born out of the Wreckage Systems sound library, but you can also hear echoes of replicr, 2019 in its unbalanced chord progression timings and detatched-from-the-grid sound design. All of this got sculpted into the shape of a song mostly by force of will, and it feels like in a strong wind its various elements would quickly come undone.
- Circuit G - Gnarly FM rhythms and guitars seemingly made of teeth. A classic 65 combination circa 2020. Goes pretty hard in the way a river of gravel goes pretty hard.
- Mimik (Original) - Before Mimik (Brln) got tamed into the (relatively-speaking) chart-friendly banger that opens the EP, it was a swirling cacophony of noise pulled directly from Simon's subconscious via his modular synth rig. It defies maths, scales, order... It's like a primordial soup except instead of elemental gasses it's sine waves, weird vibes and maybe a black hole or two. And, once again, kick drums. A kinetic sculpture of eternally collapsing Wreckage, and a fitting end to whatever it was we managed to do here.
So there you go. That's the Wreckage System EPs. We hope you like them.
OTHER BUSINESS
- As always, apart from the occasional glitch (usually Google's fault, not ours), the Wreckage Systems Stream is STILL ONLINE. So tune in regularly. It is so much better than tuning into the news.
- We've been working on a little unannounced thing. More on that some day.
- Do you want a short essay about why AI music is bad and misunderstands what music actually is and also why you should probably become a luddite? If so then Paul has written one over on his newsletter The Komoy Noise Research Unit.
- 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).
- And remember 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.
WHAT NEXT FOR 65
A great question, and one which we will answer just as soon as we have figured out how to.
In the meantime, thanks for sticking around and staying interested, friends. And good luck out there, it's getting heavy.
65.x
