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회사AUTO - _N

Anyone signed up to do a cassette release via Portland-based experimental tape label, Purr Tapes, is bound to be a winner. That’s a fact. With the founders, Hunter and Krystal, committed to releasing quality music by experimental electronic bedroom producers, you’re assured to find some exciting new sonic dimensions while exploring their discography. This brings me onto their latest release by elusive experimental electronic producer, 회사AUTO, whose latest full-length, _N, showcases a huge amount of lateral intelligence, giving rise to a boundary-breaking approach to layering multiple and often dissonant sounds and samples into something cohesive and refined…well, as cohesive and refined as any vaporwave release can be. With a reliance on distorted samples, various appropriation techniques, and often long and obscure melodies sequenced down into something entirely fresh, it’s complex and diverse right down to the core. With its highs and lows, the album takes you on a journey through plains of synthetic texture and unknown sounds, but this journey through this explorative soundscape is exciting and sucks you in fast.

As usual, each release comes with a small, yet reflective piece on the sonic nature of the album itself, and this one is absolutely spot-on:

Follow the lush vapor trail to the edge of your heart. Surrender to warm beams of light and shivering towers of ice. Melt away in the obscurity of limbo, those moments before sleep. Walk slowly into the endless spectrum.

You can buy the cassette for $6 via the Purr Tapes Bandcamp. Go get lost.