FALSE WITNESS continues to blur boundaries between Techno Music and Contemporary Art. The Montagem EP offers four new takes on the genre, blending sound design and poetry with elements of Circuit House and Dembow. The title track features spoken word from their longtime friend Khabraal aka Pedro Freire, a DJ and designer based in Los Angeles. The accompanying video for the track plays on the montage motif, where the artist colorfully remixes both influential & historically significant works of video art by AA Bronson, Andrea Fraser, Cory Arcangel, Nam June Paik, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Soft Cell, Matthew Barney, Ashland Mines and Isa Genzken.
The Rave Mix of ‘Montagem’ returns us back to the club, where modern production styles are employed to fill the most cavernous of warehouses. The conceptual B side, ‘Dämonen’ and ‘Processual Body,’ expand on the artist’s ongoing negotiation between experimentation and 4/4 functionality. ‘Dämonen’ samples and reconstructs Dembow instrumentals into a dark-room centered club track where ‘Processual Body’ strips down gay circuit party sonics to their most bare, unnerving essentials. “Frustrated yet confident”, each song gestures towards new directions in FALSE WITNESS’ ever-expanding sound practice.
Painting by Marco Gomez.
credits
released October 7, 2022
Produced and mixed by False Witness
Spoken word on "Montagem" by Khabraal
Mastering by Justin Drake at The Bakehouse Studio, London, UK
Artwork by Marco Gomez
"christ" 2020
Gouache on cold pressed watercolor paper
18 x 26 cm
license
Some rights reserved. Please refer to individual track pages for license info.
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