Wild Light Decade INTERRUPT: Oscillator (Patreon)

Hiya friends.

Another Friday. Congratulations on making it this far.

No new music this week. Sorry about that, but on the other hand, you did literally get a whole album last week so we're not gonna feel too guilty.

It's been a bit of a hair-raising week at 65LABS. As we probably mentioned, when Wild Light Decade launched, we thought that it might just about take us up until the shows in September. But now it's November. The 65LABS Archival Team just kept presenting us with these precious artifacts, and so we felt duty-bound to share them with you all. 

But friends. They dug too deep.

Earlier this week, way down in the 65LABS Hard Drive Mines, excited about a rich seam of 2013 breakbeats they had just uncovered, an over-eager Noise Archeologist got a little too enthusiastic with their pickaxe. Covered in glittering sonics and hungry for more, their axe plunged down into the crystalline beats and plunged straight through, taking the archeologist with it.

It turns out that they had unwittingly stumbled upon a Nostalgia Sinkhole. For now, apart from this one hapless breakbeat admirer, the hole has taken no victims. But now it is awake, it is hungry, and it is growing by the day.

After some discussion, it has been decided that the only way to be safe is to quarantine the Lab until such a time we can be sure we won't succumb to the hole's alluring but deadly embrace. If we're not careful, your favourite noise adventurers could just dive in and end up writing cosy, successful post-rock songs for fun and profit instead of being out here, on the bleeding edge of obscurity, fiddling with strange time signatures and broken synths.

Nostalgia SHALL NOT PASS.

And so. The Wild Light Decade rooms are now sealed off, as is the entire 65LABS Archive Wing. We've poured thousands of tonnes of USB sticks filled with many terabytes of procedurally-generated hyper-beats into the Hard Drive Mines in an effort to drown the Nostalgia Sinkhole in confusion.

As we hastily welded the last door closed, we grabbed some loose WAV files off the side. Our production team is tidying them up and they will be released to you next week, which will mark the end of Wild Light Decade.

In the meantime, please enjoy our short film OSCILLATOR. We released it online around the same time Wild Light came out, but then took it offline ages ago when we abandoned our Vimeo page. We have not yet gotten round to properly re-releasing it, despite apparently uploading it to YouTube three and a half years ago. Here's the blurb:

OSCILLATOR is a collection of off-cuts and lost edits; late night smartphone videos and unused music; real-time noise experiments using diegetic audio on a long stretch of European motorway; code-based sound generators and unmapped kinect territories, as well as footage from the dead cities and exceptional states of 2013’s 'Sleepwalk City' A/V installation.

See you next week friends!

65.x