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ML // Life Always Breaks Your Heart Tape

ML // Life Always Breaks Your Heart Tape

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A mixtape released by DJ ML in Berlin, Germany in June 2022 on the British experimental dance label Accidental Meetings.

Includes 1 hour of collage techno-spoken word. DL code included.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Accidental Meetings releases available at Tobira.

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Includes DL code.

Accidental Meetings:

"AM006 is by Berlin's ML, titled'Life always breaks your heart'. Two 30-minute pieces were written, constructed, collaged and fixed together by himself. It's an important story, so there's a copy from ML below and also ours was written by Bokeh Version Industrial to do it justice.

Hallucinated Brazilian poetry read by text to voice engines, supernatural thrillers ripped from Youtube, the clang of cutlery and distant canteen conversation, that noise wire fencing makes when you rake it with a stick, crickets chirping over odd dance emotions, a sample you think your recognize but can't name… ..

The trivial is cosmically important, the cosmically important is trivial.'It's about the product' --all of life's a sample. You contain universes.

Alice in Wonderland, late night sessions with kosmische guitar legends, ethnographic chants from an unknown land, “There's no monopoly of knowledge / there's no monopoly of power”: forecasts from global political trends, China will be important they say, someone's whistling a tune that doesn't exist, I'm thinking of times long before I was born ...

Growing naturally like a beautiful montage from his field recordings (a rich library of personal psychoacoustic details) and his 150 Session on NTS, ML's Life Always Breaks Your Heart is mixtape-concrète:

Gamelan of the soul, Bio-Curry-Wurst in Kreuzberg, zither overlays the booms of the squatter's homegrade grenades…

Mark Leckey vs. Alvin Curran, Gustav Flaubert vs Cabaret Voltaire, free association flashbacks with the timestamps mixed up, with added bass guitar, OP-1, Ableton, distinguishing the'real' instruments become unimportant…. They're absorbed by memory foam … ..

No country, no flag – international without a cause!

There is no purpose, there is only reverie. "

 

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Artist statement:

"A A hypothetical path, for obscure reasons, fades into transparency. The mediocrity of Western culture, sicken by PR, life offers a chance, a place for enthusiasm. The texture of the world, they can read it in your eyes. In the heart of schizo-culture, distance, suddenly shortened, forms characters as symbols. Deafen by mass media, embittered by unsettled chemistry, the willing body, forever in transition. The pre-invented existence, owned by language, creates a passage towards chaos. Paragraphs of currents, excited the feelings, while silence leaks into the new luxury of time. Gentrification of sentiments, beneath our palms, all these memoirs. A modern consciousness, In touch with another human spirit, blowing backwards, beneath dark waters. We put our hands on your body, onto a new landscape, employed by metaphysical mutations. At the edge of the cosm. os, prairies and mountains hide the truth in tactical silence. Apparently so, a number of months ago, above our head, a landscape of journals. Mystical content, statistically insignificant. A new patio, they crawled through the walls. "

Artist: ML

Label: Accidental Meetings

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A mixtape released by DJ ML in Berlin, Germany in June 2022 on the British experimental dance label Accidental Meetings.

Includes 1 hour of collage techno-spoken word. DL code included.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Accidental Meetings releases available at Tobira.

-------------------------

Includes DL code.

Accidental Meetings:

"AM006 is by Berlin's ML, titled'Life always breaks your heart'. Two 30-minute pieces were written, constructed, collaged and fixed together by himself. It's an important story, so there's a copy from ML below and also ours was written by Bokeh Version Industrial to do it justice.

Hallucinated Brazilian poetry read by text to voice engines, supernatural thrillers ripped from Youtube, the clang of cutlery and distant canteen conversation, that noise wire fencing makes when you rake it with a stick, crickets chirping over odd dance emotions, a sample you think your recognize but can't name… ..

The trivial is cosmically important, the cosmically important is trivial.'It's about the product' --all of life's a sample. You contain universes.

Alice in Wonderland, late night sessions with kosmische guitar legends, ethnographic chants from an unknown land, “There's no monopoly of knowledge / there's no monopoly of power”: forecasts from global political trends, China will be important they say, someone's whistling a tune that doesn't exist, I'm thinking of times long before I was born ...

Growing naturally like a beautiful montage from his field recordings (a rich library of personal psychoacoustic details) and his 150 Session on NTS, ML's Life Always Breaks Your Heart is mixtape-concrète:

Gamelan of the soul, Bio-Curry-Wurst in Kreuzberg, zither overlays the booms of the squatter's homegrade grenades…

Mark Leckey vs. Alvin Curran, Gustav Flaubert vs Cabaret Voltaire, free association flashbacks with the timestamps mixed up, with added bass guitar, OP-1, Ableton, distinguishing the'real' instruments become unimportant…. They're absorbed by memory foam … ..

No country, no flag – international without a cause!

There is no purpose, there is only reverie. "

 

***

Artist statement:

"A A hypothetical path, for obscure reasons, fades into transparency. The mediocrity of Western culture, sicken by PR, life offers a chance, a place for enthusiasm. The texture of the world, they can read it in your eyes. In the heart of schizo-culture, distance, suddenly shortened, forms characters as symbols. Deafen by mass media, embittered by unsettled chemistry, the willing body, forever in transition. The pre-invented existence, owned by language, creates a passage towards chaos. Paragraphs of currents, excited the feelings, while silence leaks into the new luxury of time. Gentrification of sentiments, beneath our palms, all these memoirs. A modern consciousness, In touch with another human spirit, blowing backwards, beneath dark waters. We put our hands on your body, onto a new landscape, employed by metaphysical mutations. At the edge of the cosm. os, prairies and mountains hide the truth in tactical silence. Apparently so, a number of months ago, above our head, a landscape of journals. Mystical content, statistically insignificant. A new patio, they crawled through the walls. "

Artist: ML

Label: Accidental Meetings