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All tracks rock, but special place in my heart for the Dopplereffekt remix :)
Favorite track: Breath Controller (Dopplereffekt Gravitational Remodel).
Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It’s a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience.
In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.
Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.
Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of “technological gentrification”, which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas.
Musically, Datashader’s practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music’s dancefloor focus.
Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack – a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.
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released April 12, 2024
Written & produced by Datashader.
A3 written & produced by Datashader and Mario Castillo.
B3 Gravitational Remodel by Dopplereffekt.
Mastered by Mario Castillo.
Lacquer cut by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering.
Published by Mikrofisch.
Design by onlab.
Datashader is a creative rebellion that transcends the limits of conventional expression, weaving a narrative that goes beyond boundaries, disrupts norms, and challenges perceptions.
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This is a wonderful journey into the vast space of Detroid electro music. A masterpiece of its own, made by none other than the masterminds behind Arpanet, Drexciya, Der Zyklus and many more unique projects. Each track is special in its own, creating with sound worlds of emotions and dreams. Buckle up and go on a cosmic trip with this extraordinary music that will get under your skin down to the bones and make you feel Electro as only a few masterpieces can. quzani