Hollow, by Lifecutter

Hollow

by Lifecutter

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Limited edition booklet (24 pages, 30 copies) hand-numbered and hand-made by Maruša 'Maruji' Hren in a single sewed binding with a "wallet" USB drive. Designed by Andro Giunio with exclusive liner-notes by Jaša Bužinel. USB contains album in MP3 and FLAC formats.

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1.	Hollow I 05:18
2.	Hollow II 07:29	buy track
3.	Hollow III 02:41	buy track
4.	Hollow IV 07:14	buy track
5.	Hollow V 03:21	buy track
6.	Hollow VI 05:18
7.	Hollow VII 06:08	buy track
8.	Hollow VIII 06:51	buy track
9.	Hollow IX 04:14	buy track

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Lifecutter’s music is a true love affair with saturated frequencies, glitchy anomalies and distorted patinas, exploring the extremes of aggressive electronic music. However, it doesn't have much in common with mindless fist-bumping, trendy TikTok hard techno dancing and bland distorted techno for big room raves. Although his music is rough and somewhat violent, it still radiates an aura of inexplicable mysticism. He borrows from the post-Einstürzende Neubauten industrial era and the groundbreaking techno sounds of the 90s and wraps them in a high-tech, digitally-enhanced format to underscore the dystopian, post-AI reality we live in.

''Hollow'', his fifth album for the Ljubljana-based label Kamizdat, is a logical continuation of the aesthetic he presented on his last full length album ''Sub Persona''. The new album contains nine powerful cuts that maintain his fascination with the dark and sludgy elements of British industrial techno strains and their connections to EBM, rhythmic noise, no wave and other "dark hued" genres. Melodies are sprinkled throughout the album, but they always verge on "melodic noise" rather than fully-blown melodicism in the Western music tradition. Lifecutter seems to seek a twisted balance between relentless rhythmic impulses and menacing pads that lurk like ghosts in the background of his soundscapes. Admittedly, he also flirts with more groove-oriented arrangements, for example in the opener Hollow I, a track that revolves around an ominous but somewhat funky synthesiser motif before developing into a frontal sonic assault in the second half.

-- from liner notes by Jaša Bužinel.

credits

released December 14, 2023

Domen Učakar · music, mixing

Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering · mastering
Jaša Bužinel · liner notes
Andro Giunio · graphic design
Maruša Hren · USB booklet, printing, bookmaking
Katja Kosi · proofreading
Luka Prinčič & Luka T. Zagoričnik · executive production

City of Ljubljana · financial support

produced by Emanat emanat.si
released by Kamizdat kamizdat.si

cat.no.: KAM069

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Lifecutter Slovenia

Lifecutter likes synths, effect pedals, distortion, different types of heavy music and makes music because he has to.

discography

Hollow

Dec 2023
Sub Persona

Oct 2020
PTSD

May 2020
Death(c)rave

Mar 2017
Safe Place

Dec 2016
Siclar Remixes

Oct 2015
Siclar

May 2015
Aux Eardrum EP

May 2014

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