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SAUNA 052CS
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NYZ on the recording: "The Buchla 100 experimental session begins with a documentary recording of the noise generators. Something I find endlessly fascinating is listening to different noise sources, so I always feel compelled to record them. The remaining tracks are sequenced by my MANIAC Cellular Automata sequencer. First up are three little sequenced ditties that also incorporate the ARP 2600 modular interconnected to the Buchla 100. After this is an ultra-minimal setup using MANIAC and the mind-numbingly rare Waveform Synthesizer Model 132 module. As far as I'm aware this is the only one of these modules that Buchla ever built! A truly unique module where you have 32 pots that setup the output waveform, and an FM input as well. The last two tracks are a Cellular Automata / FM crossmod oscillator stereo setup, lots of crunchy high pitched stuff with some deep bass notes thrown in too :]" Recorded at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA on April 5th, 2015. Mixed and arranged at Noyzelab, NSW, Australia between July 2015 & February 2016.
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WHO 018CD
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"Those wonderful people at The Wormhole recently got in touch and invited me to send them a CD album. So, I had a bit of a think and then rummaged around in the studio and laboratory where I found a bunch of stuff done with cheap old ROMplers and my maniac cellular automata sequencer. After sifting through a few sessions, I selected a variety of tracks and put them together for this release. For process-inquisitive types, the generative composition techniques with cellular automata used various MIDI events including => note, velocity, mono / poly aftertouch, pitch bend, mod wheel, continuous controllers and various custom system exclusive encodings to change microtuning tables and various synth patch parameters. Sequences were generated and manipulated live at the sequencer interface and recorded direct to hard disc." --David Burraston, New South Wales, April, 11 2020. Recorded at Noyzelab, 2016-2018. Edition of 250.
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RAVE NYZII
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Unreleased bounty of 30-year-old bleep techno, ambient/noyze and breakbeat hardcore from Dave Burraston's cult NYZ project -- rinsing his archived Amiga productions for animated gems comparable to Autechre's Legofeet, AFX's SAW volumes, or the earliest Humanoid recordings. Following his mind-bending SHFTR FRQ LP for The Death of Rave in 2018, the award-winning, UK-born and Aussie-based artist/scientist excavates his HD from a golden era when synf and computer music boffins were building the future in bedroom studios, using then early versions of Cubase and Amiga software to establish the templates for decades of rave and electronic dance music to come. However, like a rare, mutant dinosaur skeleton that doesn't fit historic models, NYZ's unarchiving of OLD TRX [87-93] offers a complex and unusually chaotic range of ideas for this era -- from meditation tape-sampling downbeats to nutty proto-speed garage and animated noise -- that plays out like a comic book or pulpy sci-fi narrative and smartly showcases the breadth of Dave's prized imagination and technical nous. In 11 parts arranged for a properly immersive listen, OLD TRX [87-93] wends from squashed '80s cyberpunk sci-fi in "damage" to the hypnagogic swag of "self_hypnotic_tapez" via a spectrum of mutant dancefloor and avant oddities alongside a bezerker breakbeat razz in "patheticsocialmisfits" and what sounds like proto-speed garage in the warped bass of 'flatline'. But he never uses the same drum pattern twice, and thanks to the inclusion of wildcards such as the scorching noise piece "JP4_PhonosonicsRM_DRN" and the sleazy proto-trance of "CEZbulgan", the sequencing ideally lends itself to jacked-in headphone mooches as much as domestic and raving use. The results are surely comparable to the haunting early rave and ambient sound of AFX's SAW 85-92 as much as the freaky ideas found on Brian Dougans's proto-FSOL project, Humanoid's Sessions 84-88, or the hardcore breakbeat ruggedness of Autechre's Legofeet, yet all done with a trippy sound design and time-out-of-joint feel that's singular to this remarkable record, and speaks to the artist's wealth of experience; from his role as a BT trouble-shooter in the '70s, to his work on landscape-sized sound art installations, and his legendary "SYROBONKERS" interview with Richard D. James. It's an immensely enjoyable and enigmatic album sure to spark ravenous interest with old and yung skool ravers and electronic music fiends. Mastered and cut by Anna at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Pressed on purple vinyl. Screen-printed jacket, edition of 300.
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IMPREC 453LP
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Lose yourself in the circuitry of the original 1965 Buchla 100 with NYZ (Dave Burraston) as he utilizes Barbara Hero's Lambdoma tuning theories to create two slow, deeply layered, subconscious, organic and meditative compositions. NYZ's split 12" with ELEH (IMPREC 477LP) will be released at the same time as Millz Medz. David Burraston is an award-winning artist/scientist working in the areas of technology and electronic music, operating Noyzelab as an independent art/science music studio since 1981. His experimental arts practice encompasses field recordings, landscape-scale sound art, chaos/complexity, practice-based research, sound synthesis, and electronic music. He performs, lectures, conducts workshops, and creates art installations in Regional NSW and around the world. David also designs and builds sound synthesizers based on his theories of chaos/complexity science. David has worked with many diverse collaborators such as Aphex Twin, Chris Watson, Doug Quin, Russell Haswell, Robin Fox, Oren Ambarchi, Sarah Last, Cat Hope, Garry Bradbury, William Barton, Alan Lamb, MIT Media Lab, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2014m he independently published the legendary "SYROBONKERS!", the most technical and in-depth interview ever given by Aphex Twin. First pressing of 500.
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RAVE NYZ-LP
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The Death of Rave is honored to plate up the vinyl debut by NYZ; the cult, algorithmic/ generative music project of award-winning artist/scientist Dave Burraston (Bryen Telko, Noyzelab). The A-side revolves 14 succinct blatz, ranging from cranky percussive pieces to queered microtonal dissonance and SAW II-like atmospheres -- notably including one track made on a Sequentix Cirklon sequencer and PreenFM2 synth gifted him by Richard D. James. The B-side contains a steeply immersive spectral drone tract that (never) ends in a locked groove, especially cut at D&M, Berlin. The results are wholly unique and speak to the endless, playfully experimental variation of NYZ's art/research. They reveal visceral, alien microcosms of curdled microtonal tunings and proprioceptive chicanery bound to thrill and induce strange, new sensations in even the most hard-to-please fiend of electronic music. It's strongly recommended to followers of Russell Haswell's chaotic gnash, the mind-bending tunings of Aphex Twin, the visionary algorithmic scapes of Roland Kayn, and Eliane Radigue's microtonal meditations. In Dave's own words:
"SHFTR FRQ is a series of experimental studies into simple synth setups controlled by varying levels of generative complex systems [MANIAC cellular automata]. SHFTR FRQ was recorded over the last six years on an ever-changing hybrid of equipment encompassing the domains of modular and MIDI-based microtonal sound synthesis [analog and digital]. Setups were always ultra-minimalist, often with just the MANIAC cellular automata sequencer and one or two modules/synths to provide a consistent sensory focus. The studies range from ultra-short sequences, micro-ditties, investigatory motifs, to a full length high spectral drone meditation."
Burraston has previously collaborated with Alan Lamb on recordings of a mile-long telephone wire in the Australian outback, and more recently he issued nearly a dozen NYZ tapes and CDs with some of the most crucial modern music labels, as well as a number of releases under the Noyzelab and Bryen Telko aliases. In 2014, Dave self-published SYROBONKERS!, the most technical and in-depth interview ever given by Aphex Twin. Screen-printed jacket. RIYL: Russell Haswell, Aphex Twin, Eliane Radigue, EVOL/ALKU, Roland Kayn.
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