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osheyack - sadomodernism - bedouin records - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro

1. The Body Keeps The Score
2. "No" (feat Milky He & Michael St Michael)
3. Soiled (feat Milky He)
4. A Rivers Mouth
5. Split
6. Balance (feat Nahash)
7. Writhe (feat Nahash)
8. With Us (feat Nahash)
9. Bordertown
10. Untitled 6

Debut album by American-born, Shanghai-based producer Eli Osheyac

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"Borrowed from film theory, the album title was originally coined by writer Moira Weigel to describe a waning European art house tradition that vehemently rejects 'naïve pleasure'—the tranquilizing comfort of conventional cinematic narrative, like mainstream Hollywood—and opts for violence and pain, with the aim of shaking audiences out of cinematic manipulation and into their own position vis-à-vis the malaise of contemporary life. Echoing the work of sadomodernist auteurs, Osheyacks's Sadomodernism is a deeply political project with critical ambitions. The smashing and blending of genres, from techno, industrial, noise and gabber to ballroom and metal, even opera, and spontaneous percussion arrangements, sometimes mixed with distorted spoken word, do not mean to please, but provoke through disorder and chaos. Laden with Brechtian alienation affects, Sadomodernism interrogates the notion of autonomy in contemporary music, club culture, and social-political life."