mxrpha’s INSIDES turns up in the middle of this year with no prior work attributable to the name. It’s a spellbindingly beautiful record, like someone engorged all the ambient and bass music of the Soundcloud wilds, infused it with this melancholy worldliness, and dreamt up that it be played from a soundsystem in a chancel. It’s a record equally ghostly and daring. Taking apart rolling UK bass tunes, IDM and the trancier moments of future garage’s overspill, then rebuilding it into a record that bows for no listener, yet evoking all the unsayable intimations of their inner life. It’s a record of squawks and swells and small discordances, and out of these it pens the biography of no one person, but people nonetheless.
So two motifs, earthliness and religious magnitude, seem traceable in mxrpha’s Realist mix. It’s filled with these hyperpop canticles, folk songs from the virtual - bass music so guttural it’s nearest kin is the united larynx of a choir, laden with the candlelit mystery of a sound that loses its self and accedes to the possession of the world. Simultaneously there’s these samples of the natural world, individual or triplet voices of a citizenry... DOOM turns up in an act of recontextualisation that lays in your gut exactly what it was like to first hear Figaro, and below drums and the squalls of distorted horns, all the turbulence of adolescence vaporises into the ecstatic engulfing of being now. So both mxrpha’s music and mix could be called an expert music of disappearance. It’s electronic music so attuned to this capacity of music to induce alienation from the self that its ethereality is the ethereality of the sparrow flying through the clerestory, a deity in a tapering flame, music that belongs to no body but a space in ownerless air where go passions and potentialities.
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INSIDES
My first album is out now everywhere!
Visit my bandcamp for the artbook.
Thanks to everyone who helped and supported me releasing this.
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