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Great Ambient, made with the ingenious Korg Monotribe. Unfortunately this is not available as an official release. Analogue Ribbon Station: In a world seemingly ruled by digital, Korg created an analog sensation with the palm-sized monotron Analogue Ribbon Synthesizer. Today, Korg once again takes up the analog banner with the amazing monotribe Analog Ribbon Station; a synthesizer that packs an amazing array of features and technology into its compact body. Korg’s monotribe shares the monotron’s analog DNA, yet quickly delves deeper into the rich, organic, and often chaotic world of analog synthesis. In addition to analog synthesis, monotribe brings together intuitive ease of use and a three-part discrete analog rhythm section, plus the proven appeal of Electribe-style sequencing. Complete with built-in speakers and battery power, monotribe is self-contained and highly portable, able to deliver your ideas with style and personality. The monotribe Analog Ribbon Station – br

The Collapse (in the original 'L'Effondrement') is a French end-of-time miniseries from 2019 that, on behalf of the pay-TV channel Canal +, was created, written and realized by the collective Les Parasites, consisting of Guillaume Desjardins, Jérémy Bernard and Bastien Ughetto. The German-language first publication took place on July 16, 2020 by the streaming provider Joyn. This series accompanies individuals or groups at different times and in different places as they try by different means to survive in a world that is about to collapse. Throughout the series, the exact causes of the onset of the social breakdown remain in the dark. In the individual episodes, the reactions of the different characters are shown at different times after the collapse. The protagonists struggle with the consequences of a shortage of food in supermarkets, with widespread power outages and wrecking nuclear power plants; these events lead to theft, the use of firearms and the like. In addition

The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always "on the go." GEORGES BERNANOS,   The Diary of a Country Priest

...in the playlist since 2020...  

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.” ―  Fernando Pessoa

The dudes from Brunswick present us a brutal, enormous, extremely dark, sad and completely hopeless work. Something very appropriate for this time.  Already the opening song “Leiden An Deiner Statt [Schwarzer Strom I]” puts you in the mood in a very eerie and sad way for a work that sounds very mature and consistent in its entirety. It is a journey into the heart of pain infused with screams of desperation and screams of anger and impuissance . Into the inside of fear, inside the substance of fear. It is kept very minimalist and it seems to me that this fact ensures that the effect of the tones has an even more merciless effect on the pain- racked ear canals and the sore brain. An album that seems like you're lost forever in the forest alone at night. In reality, however, this is just a reference to the fact that man is lost in the world. In a very gloomy and hopeless world from which there is no escape but through death. In sofar this disc is a n exposure therapy for confront

“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. I know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing— and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. The Future—eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects—offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation.” ―  Giovanni Papini,  Un uomo finito

Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is. In this book Lars Svendsen examines the nature of boredom, how it originated, its history, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will. A diverse and vague phenomenon, described as anything from 'tame longing without any particular object’ (Schopenhauer), ‘a bestial and indefinable affliction’ (Dostoevsky), to ‘time’s invasion of your world system’ (Joseph Brodsky), boredom allows many interpretations. In exploring these, Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology and popular culture, examining boredom’s pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophies of the subject from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern related concepts of alienation and transgression, taking in texts by Samuel Beckett

 “Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.” ―  Giacomo Leopardi

 

 ...in the playlist since 2017...

Brian Lavelle - Untitled Brian Lavelle - Untitled Brian Lavelle - Citadel Brian Lavelle - Votive Topias Tiheäsalo & Niko-Matti Ahti - Four Letters - Life Part IV Topias Tiheäsalo & Niko-Matti Ahti - Four Letters - Life Part II Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft - While Your Body Is Asleep Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft - Resounding Entities Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft - Probabilities & Possibilities Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft - Melted Into Darkness

 ...in the playlist since 2019...

Presumably, this very pleasant work is hardly known to anyone today, but it is a very special one. A few years ago I came across this band by chance. They have only released two albums so far, with their second and last work from 1984 being their best. Overall, the atmosphere is very sad and a little monotonous, but I think that it is precisely this fact that defines the morbid and gloomy charm of this release. Particularly noteworthy are the songs: "Dance Of The Dolls" and "The Wedding". It's one of the few records that is very coherent altogether and it keeps it's high level during playing time. Overall Score: 7/10

from the forthcoming album "ASCHE"