Barker Utility 2LP Vinyl 2019 Ostgut Ton OSTGUTLP32

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"We all dance away our lives to the tune of the sovereign pleasure-pain axis." - David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

Addiction to pleasure and pain avoidance as a rave metaphor - that fits with Sam Barker's music. The Berghain resident and leisure system co-operator has explored the euphoric potential of changing variables in dance floor stenciling over the years.

This was especially true for his Ostgut Ton-EP debut Debiasing, which bubbled with unconventional rhythmic chord progression, melodies and percussion - but omitted the kick drum. What looked like an experimental exercise on paper was actually made for the club as well: pieces that work on the dance floor, but refused the often prescribed kick drum dictation and the associated genre categorization. This is how Barker's sound was defined.

On his solo debut album Utility, Barker now devotes his attention to the fusion of experiment and dance floor pragmatism with the psychology behind the musical decision-making process. In his own words: “After debiasing, it occurred to me that my musical decisions are often inadvertently utilitarian, following an instinct to maximize happiness in one way or another. To admit that is quite un fashionable. But by leaving out elements with strong genre associations, this became a fairly natural consequence. ”

Accordingly, utility is a playful-teasing but unironical musical view of a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanistic concepts: From models to quantify well-being and gradients of bliss ("gradients of bliss") to eliminate suffering for sentient beings (means: not just humans ) on the ethical use of drugs and nanotechnology. Over the course of nine pieces, Barker's vision ebbs and flows through waves of deeply psychedelic music vignettes; free-flowing and futuristic melodies and rhythms as targeted brain stimulation. The sound is heavily based on modular synthesis, just like self-made mechanical sound generators, instruments and plate reverbs create atmospheres that look alien as well as emotionally familiar, functional and utopian.

Utility is by no means a concept album. Rather, it is an upright engagement with music as a maximization of joy and an expansion of consciousness. 

Label:
Ostgut Ton OSTGUTLP32
Format:
2 × vinyl, LP, album
Country:
Germany
Released:
06 Sep 2019
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Techno, neo trance

Track list

A1 Paradise Engineering 
A2 Posmean 
A3 Experience Machines 
B1 Gradients Of Bliss 
B2 Hedonic Treadmill 
C1 Models Of Wellbeing 
C2 utility 
D1 wireheading 
D2 Die-Hards Of The Darwinian Order

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2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code 2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code 2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code 2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code 2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code 2LP vinyl on Ostgut clay incl. Download code Musikgruppe Barker Format Album Plattengröße LP (12 Inch) Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min EAN 4250101409264 Genre Dance & Electronic Eigenschaften Ersterscheinung Subgenre Techno, Neo Trance Erscheinungsjahr 2019