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Hi, friends.

Eternal 2020 has entered yet another year and we’re already a whole month through it. That was fast. How’s it going for you?

January at 65LABS is mostly a time for sitting quietly in a dark room and trying not to do, or think about anything at all. We’re trying to cultivate the exact opposite of a rise-and-grind mentality. It is called it dive-and-untether. Depending on our pretension levels on any given day, we might call ourselves Sonic Dilettantes, or Flâneurs of the Noise Realm. We become Psychogeographists of the Labs, roaming wild and free, idly creating new taxonomies of audio-adventure, imagining new theories of dustpunk... Glitch praxis!

Above all though, crucially, we avoid doing any, y’know, actual material things in the actual world. And so as such, there’s no actual 65 news to report. Although, if only this update were due to be posted three days from now. Perhaps there would be news then… Stay tuned.

POLINSKI - TELEX FROM MIDI CITY

Given the lack of 65daysofstatic news, the rest of this update is given over to telling you all that Paul from the band has finally announced his new record. It is called Telex From MIDI City. It is a sublime collage of noisy beats and melodies and melodrama. It is built from oceans of sonic tumult and hyper bombast. Technicolor arpeggios, lovingly cultivated feedback; a manifesto for friendship and doing things differently. Inspired in no small part by the much-missed David Graeber’s simple but profound observation that ‘the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.’

Telex From MIDI City is this world done differently. Songs harvested from the history of pop culture. Sounds and shapes of history reclaimed from nostalgia, no longer applied as desperate escapism but rather as stubborn hope.

And so on and so on. As one quarter of 65daysofstatic, Polinski is expressively forbidden to use anything approaching subtlety or nuance in his song-writing. Go hyperbolic or go home!

The lead track is called Distant Friend, I Love You! Please do check the video at the top of the page if you haven’t already. It is also on Sp****y, Apple Music, etc. etc.

The album is being released on Data Airlines on 24th February. It will be available physically, digitally and will be on all the streaming services.

Follow Paul’s doomed-to-fail attempts at posting regularly on Instagram HERE. Since the announcement of Telex… he’s been posting a steady stream of generative noise experiments, cute pixel-audio systems, and some videos of his incendiary button-pressing skills. If you’re into Wreckage Systems and wish 65 had done more live streams, then do sign up here for future treats. He is also on Twitter, for whatever that is worth these days.

Ok, that’s it!

Oh - and yep, as usual, this Patreon subscription remains paused. Please stay signed up, it costs you nowt. (Or if you want to sign up - you’ll be charged for just a single month and then have access to the wealth of good stuff locked away in the Wreckage Systems archive).

Stayed tuned for actual 65daysofstatic news very soon. For real.

Until then… Take care out there, friends.

65.x