Brexshitting: The portmanteau of tautological research, by Various Artists

Brexshitting: The portmanteau of tautological research

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Ryan A thoroughly well-conceived release – effective as a deep listen of a commentary exploring a very specific set of cultural motifs, but also as an absorbing journey through musique concrète and noise. The cassette, artwork and research zine weaves the theory of the project together into a original physical record.

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Limited Edition Cassette + zine
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High-bias cassette tape with art-print, includes 20-page research zine. Only 25 copies available!

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4 x 7" lathe record set, including Union Jack record player
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Originally exhibited at the SEAS gallery, this is a one-of-a-kind pressing of the original Brexshitting research on 4 x 7" lathe vinyl. In true Brexit spirit, you can take back control of your music collection with the included, fully-working, cheap, foreign-made Union Jack record player, enshrined in an imported Union Jack flag.

This is the only copy of the original research in existence and includes the core material used for the main digital / cassette release. Please note: the lathe records do not include the remixes. The lathe records include the original field recordings, locked grooves, and data sonfication, and are intended as an installation piece.

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Brexshitting: 'It's All Going Swimmingly And I Have No Regrets' Edition
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A super limited run of just 2 tapes, with union jack sleeves.

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	1.	Beattie / Canon / Hignell - 52 04:03
	2.	Beattie / Canon / Hignell - 48 04:11
	3.	Cracks in the Armour - Brexshitting 05:14
	4.	Warren 'Kaninen' Rasmussen - Grey White Hard Soft 05:17
	5.	J. Lynch - Oh! Theresa 03:07
	6.	Sutter Greaves - The Motion of Brexit 07:39
	7.	Cyrenaur - Brecord, it's only broken 02:51
	8.	Powlos - Red White and Blue 04:27
	9.	Don Dayglow - Brexshitting remix 07:43
	10.	Hydra Transmitter - The Feast is Ready 04:16
	11.	Distant Animals - New Borders (digital only bonus track) 04:22

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A sonic exploration of the Brexit referendum, merging Musique-Concrete, technological decay, and rigorous academic socio-political research.
‘Brexshitting’ is the distinctly partisan documentation of the incongruous, underhand, and duplicitous narratives framing the 2016 EU withdrawal referendum colloquially known as Brexit. Invoking Pierre Henry’s reel-to-reel experiments, Brexshitting infuses the degradation and latent noise of the political sphere with the caustic timbres and limited-fidelity of the lathe-record press.

Broaching the disparate worlds of thoroughbred academia and DIY culture, ‘Brexshitting’ conjures a horizon of familiar, everyday sounds, augmenting them with the noise, distortion, and wear of the lathe medium.
The underpinning research that Brexshitting interrogates uses what linguist Michael Halliday terms the ‘functional grammar’ of the Brexit debate – the tone, timbre, rhythm, and frequency of political framing the debate. Distinct compositional approaches are forged from the murky, duplicitous linguistic traits of politicians and the media invested in Brexit.
Field recordings were taken from those paragons of Brexit, the EU headquarters in Brussels, and a Wetherspoons pub in Brexit-central – Kent. These mundane snapshots of inane chatter contrast with the sporadic buzz of a modular synth. Erratic melodies are drawn from datasets detailing the frequency and tenor of media discourse – snatches of political slogans fading in and out, meaningless repetitions voided into an endless ether.

Conceived, recorded, and produced by the composer’s Distant Animals, Antoine Canon and Dylan Beattie, the project catalogs the dominant narratives of the debate, with particular focus on language that walked a critical line between the conveniences of abstraction and the meaningless gesticulations of populism.

The album includes a 12 page zine containing Brexit themed research, alongside 9 original reinterpretations by some of the most vital voices in the underground experimental, sound-art, ambient, and electronic scene.

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released July 31, 2021

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