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The truth is out there: Los Angeles producer Aerial on declassifying an intersection of science & fiction for worlds beyond our own		“I wouldn’t say I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I’m definitely open to the unlimited weirdness of reality and the fact that there is a whole lot we aren’t told by those in power,” writes Devin Ronneberg via email, about the invisible systems that define our reality. A pilot with enduring ties to the aviation community, and involvement in military projects as an airplane designer, the Los Angeles-based producer known as Aerial is extraordinarily equipped to contemplate the nature of desired extraterrestrial truths in an age of disinformation.
Get Low (Real Deep): The underground networks of Vancouver’s New Forms Festival explored at their historical roots		Stanley Park is forested with trees that have been around for hundreds of years. Some are still standing, some are on their side with roots exposed, and others have been cut down with new growth springing from the stumps. While walking off a night’s debauchery during the Vancouver’s New Forms Festival, running September 25 to 27, the underground root systems giving way to unseen communication networks become an ideal analog of the media and music event’s objective.
We’re still here: Flexible dub electronics redefine proximity & visibility at the Quiet Time label’s Los Angeles debut		A thick, red-stained haze seeps out from behind the DJ booth at Chewing Foil. Pulsing layers of afrobeat rhythms and harsh pseudo-industrial sounds swirl around, engulfing the audience into an appropriately post-apocalyptic dance floor. The dense air permeates a chain-link perimeter around the stage, obfuscating the performers and gear before eventually fading into the darkened corners of the room.
Forensic Futurism: Nazar & Shannen SP on history’s role in finding home in diaspora & how it comes through in the ‘rough kuduro’ of Guerrilla		“Those stories have to be told by us before someone else outside,” explains Nazar via Zoom about why it’s important to hold the narrative of his home in Angola. Earlier this year on March 13, the Manchester-based producer released album Guerrilla on Hyperdub, an 11-track epic that chronicles a collective memory experienced throughout his return to see family in the south-central African country. Distorted battlecries and voices blitz the caustic rhythms arranged in Nazar’s self-described ‘rough kuduro’ style. It’s a record that’s equally transportative as it is reflective of the aftermath of a civil war that ended in 2002.
Cultivating cross-genre utopias: Los Angeles heavy synth duo S. Product talks speculative nostalgia & reclaiming community		“It’s punk looking, which is Dada looking, which means it’s even older than that,” Melissa Scaduto explains about the idealism behind S. Product’s aesthetics. A new heavy synth project by the performer (and drummer of punk band Sextile) and Private Selection label co-founder Kyle Hamon of (the duo uses nostalgia to construct spaces in opposition to dehumanizing capitalist processes. Individual catharsis has become a means for creating a sense of freedom and value as the band navigates the underground scenes in Los Angeles.

The truth is out there: Los Angeles producer Aerial on declassifying an intersection of science & fiction for worlds beyond our own

“I wouldn’t say I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I’m definitely open to the unlimited weirdness of reality and the fact that there is a whole lot we aren’t told by those in power,” writes Devin Ronneberg via email, about the invisible systems that define our reality. A pilot with enduring ties to the aviation community, and involvement in military projects as an airplane designer, the Los Angeles-based producer known as Aerial is extraordinarily equipped to contemplate the nature of desired extraterrestrial truths in an age of disinformation.

Get Low (Real Deep): The underground networks of Vancouver’s New Forms Festival explored at their historical roots

Stanley Park is forested with trees that have been around for hundreds of years. Some are still standing, some are on their side with roots exposed, and others have been cut down with new growth springing from the stumps. While walking off a night’s debauchery during the Vancouver’s New Forms Festival, running September 25 to 27, the underground root systems giving way to unseen communication networks become an ideal analog of the media and music event’s objective.

We’re still here: Flexible dub electronics redefine proximity & visibility at the Quiet Time label’s Los Angeles debut

A thick, red-stained haze seeps out from behind the DJ booth at Chewing Foil. Pulsing layers of afrobeat rhythms and harsh pseudo-industrial sounds swirl around, engulfing the audience into an appropriately post-apocalyptic dance floor. The dense air permeates a chain-link perimeter around the stage, obfuscating the performers and gear before eventually fading into the darkened corners of the room.

Forensic Futurism: Nazar & Shannen SP on history’s role in finding home in diaspora & how it comes through in the ‘rough kuduro’ of Guerrilla

“Those stories have to be told by us before someone else outside,” explains Nazar via Zoom about why it’s important to hold the narrative of his home in Angola. Earlier this year on March 13, the Manchester-based producer released album Guerrilla on Hyperdub, an 11-track epic that chronicles a collective memory experienced throughout his return to see family in the south-central African country. Distorted battlecries and voices blitz the caustic rhythms arranged in Nazar’s self-described ‘rough kuduro’ style. It’s a record that’s equally transportative as it is reflective of the aftermath of a civil war that ended in 2002.

Cultivating cross-genre utopias: Los Angeles heavy synth duo S. Product talks speculative nostalgia & reclaiming community

“It’s punk looking, which is Dada looking, which means it’s even older than that,” Melissa Scaduto explains about the idealism behind S. Product’s aesthetics. A new heavy synth project by the performer (and drummer of punk band Sextile) and Private Selection label co-founder Kyle Hamon of (the duo uses nostalgia to construct spaces in opposition to dehumanizing capitalist processes. Individual catharsis has become a means for creating a sense of freedom and value as the band navigates the underground scenes in Los Angeles.