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Jaša Bužinel
, February 25th, 2021 07:00
Hyperspecific is back with the first instalment from our new columnist Jaša Bužinel, bringing you a selection of exciting new releases from Kode9, Autechre, Rian Treanor, Venus Ex Machina, Pauline Anna Strom and Giant Swan, among others
Venus Ex Machina by Karsten Buch
My name is Jaša Bužinel, a music writer from Slovenia, and I m going to be taking over tQ s monthly Hyperspecific column, dedicated to pinpointing the most intriguing electronic, dance and experimental electronic records released each month. I m writing this from my Central European motherland where I currently live. As the pandemic slowly approaches another year, we ve reached a, hopefully temporary, point in dance music history where it doesn t really matter where you are situated as a music writer. Be it in London or Ljubljana, we all have access to the same nexus of deterritorialised electronic music scenes which currently only exist in cyberspace via a constant f
division. it looks like they re really there when they re really 30 miles away. it was not without some of its close calls. let s play a little clip when the americans were setting up getting tanks in place and some frenchmen walked by. watch this. oh. that s not the clip we wanted. i guess tough watch. it s a great story where some frenchmen see four americans lifting up what looks like a 40 ton sherman tank and they can t quite believe what they re seeing, and they say to the guard what s going on? and he looks at them, the american guard, and he says the americans are very strong. that was the answer. something i wonder about is the sonic warfare you talk about because back then the technology to make it sound real, i mean, i always envision sort of that scratching noise and how is it that they made it so authentic that actually soldiers thought they were hearing and eavesdropping? they made their own sound