Why did my story abt hating Instagram get ovr 100 views wat did I do. Anyways I am very active and working, just not here. I am taking my time studying art fundamentals because i am too behind on it, checking out as many bands as possible etc. You might see me in some obscure music spaces, around idk. I'm # doing # stuff
There is no straightforward way to categorise Uniow as a producer with a geography, a tradition or a scene. Foremost visual artist and game designer yet, also, producer, a backdrop begins to explicate the challenge of categorisation. There’s no real satisfactory taxonomy for the music Uniow makes. Like overhearing posthardcore from a basement that is memory... a chamber music that confines yet defies containment. Almost all the Uniow tracks might have this similar approach, of a number of musics remembered and held in a hypnagogic fog of ingenuity, blending the online abrasion of hyperflip/glitch and mashcore with preservations of the voices of screamo, post-hardcore and noise. But like in the painting, the living things pinned and preserved escape from their immurement, and Uniow’s music has a comparable alchemy to it. Of a recontexualisation of the music that inspires him but one that refuses to be tribute or a simplified contrast, but which in its juxtapositions and their purgatorial yet implacable uniqueness proves a genuine originality.
Uniow’s Realist mix is a map of these juxtapositions and the music that forms them. Counterposing an intense rapidity of breaks with selections from hardcore and screamo, the two-sided technical attention that characterises Uniow’s productions is clear. These are tracks that shift in their structures and tempo. They follow not singular patterns or moods. They’re suprising in the suddeness of their transformations and revelatory in their imperfect grooves. They are abolitions of conventional ambience in the seeking of an actually expressive one. Derogations of hypnotism for the openness of reality. It is because of Uniow’s inspiration and celebration of the abrupt and bare imperfection that a portrait of a person and a past emerges from a mix. And then you have not a sequence of songs but a poetry of time and being.
Realist Alive Radio - 6PM [GMT]
art & text by @uniow_