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Wreckage Systems

65LABS Comms Team

Feb 1, 2023 — 1 min read

Wreckage Systems is what you will wake up to in the mornings and fall asleep to at night. It is your digital noise comrade. It is the end point of electronic musicians alienating themselves. It is the dark heart of a collapsing music industry. It is the cold, numbing embrace of data centres. It is audio anaesthetic to accompany your doom scrolling. It is the future without future. It is everywhere. All that is solid melts into air. It is weaponised ephemerality. It is 65daysofstatic stretched into a lifetime.

Wreckage Systems is a project of 65LABS. Season One concluded in February 2022, though the Live Stream itself remains online. TUNE IN NOW! Or watch this short explainer video for an explanation as to how the broadcast works:

As well as charting the development of the Wreckage Systems stream, supporters of 65LABS also received the four Wreckage Releases from 65daysofstatic. These are still available on Bandcamp:

Beyond this, a huge amount of exclusive 'Research Releases', software downloads, videos and essays are scattered across the Wreckage Systems Archive, which is still accessible by signing up to the 65LABS Patreon.

detail from the Tomorrowd EP cover - streaming now

TOMORROWD - Streaming NOW

Hey there, friends. It's us again, your favourite obscure instrumental band, coming to you live from the slowly sinking, rainy climes of Northern England. We're happy to announce that today sees the release-to-streaming of the second Wreckage Systems EP - Tomorrowd. Tomorrowd, like all four of

The cover of Under the Summs. A grainy photo of an arched concrete tunnel taken on the south coast of Japan, early 2020

Under the Summs STREAMING NOW

Hi there friends. Welcome to November. Another month, another lesser-heard 65daysofstatic release hits the streaming services. This time it is the Under the Summs EP, the first of four EPs that were part of the Wreckage Systems project. Out TODAY. 65daysofstatic on Sp***fy65daysofstatic on Tim Apple Music This was

Silent Running OUT NOW / 65LABS Redux

Today marks the release of our 2011 album Silent Running to streaming platforms. Only thirteen years late! Listen now, listen often. Stream on Tim Apple MusicStream on Sp***fy It's also still available on our Bandcamp should you still be in the old-fashioned habit of buying music and

a detail from the silent running album cover

Silent Running Streaming Next Week

Allllll the way back in 2011, we were approached by Glasgow Film Festival who asked us if we wanted to do a performance of a live soundtrack for them. We chose Douglas Trumbull's 1972 eco sci-fi film Silent Running, stripped out all the folky Joan Baez music and

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TOMORROWD - Streaming NOW

Under the Summs STREAMING NOW

Silent Running OUT NOW / 65LABS Redux

Silent Running Streaming Next Week