Support from: Abstract Division, Amelie lens, Arnaud Le Texier, Brendon Moeller, Cassegrain, Echoplex, Isolated Lines, Juho Kusti, Kwartz, Marcel Fengler, Mental Resonance, Naty Seres, re:ni, Sigha, Stephanie Sykes, Takaaki Itoh, Tensal, Tobi Neumann, Wata Igarashi
A note from main(void):
All my music is indebted to Black music. Techno is Black music, and it is the frame of reference for Spatial Cues. However, a glimpse at my musical influences reveals an even larger debt.
I have been passionately listening to Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Abdullah Ibrahim for most of my life. I discovered electronic music through Hip Hop and Drum and Bass. After learning about Goldie’s collaboration with KRS-One on Saturnz Return, I ordered my first vinyl record. When friends introduced me to Macka B’s Discrimination, produced by Mad Professor, I heard effects being used as instruments for the first time. Today, Dub mixing techniques are fundamental to my process and sound.
This release in particular is inspired by musical forms from African, African-American, and Jamaican music, including call and response, the backbeat, and Dub echoes. I owe my love for call and response to Art Blakey’s Moanin’. I owe my love for the backbeat to KRS-One’s Return of the Boom Bap. I owe my love for Dub echoes to the music Mad Professor mixed for Macka B.
As I am paying tribute to my immediate influences, I also recognize my responsibility to learn about the history and context of these musical forms.
"The void is a lively tension, a desiring orientation toward being/becoming." (Karen Barad, What Is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice)
This is absolutely fantastic music. It sounds truly alive: pulsating and ever-shifting yet entirely coherent and with a distinctive voice. Thank you for making it. Jake Mandell
I bought both tracks on this EP when it was released & now there is only Blazej malinowski track available....What happened to Claudio PRC & UNC track CXXV ?? why is it no longer available to me in my collection ? Dubfreak
I have Tidal to thank for introducing me to Parola ...
Wow, just extraordinary. I have it on loop. around it goes, I'm tripping on the vocal, I'm lost in an ethereal otherness.
Exquisitely beautiful ❤️💜💙💚💛🧡 Cosmic Turtle