Melbourne singer/songwriter Dylan Beast unveils his new industrial electronic rock sound with the three-track single How Long out now on Australia’s Clan Analogue label.
Dylan Beast’s sonic style is influenced by electronic rock of the 1990s and 2000s melded with the edge of modern club music styles. His songwriting explores the mental struggles of modern life and the inherent tensions of today’s technologically-mediated existence. Following on from his independently released Black Patches album of 2020, Dylan moves further into electronica with this new release on Clan Analogue.
Through a mix of industrial music, funk guitar, experimental synths and rock vocals, “How Long” talks about the need for people to fake their emotional responses throughout their lives in order to survive the pressures of our society.
“How Long” is backed with two extra tracks which build the intensity further. Perth’s Times of the Sines remix “How Long” for a high energy dancefloor vibe, granulising and resynthesizing the vocals to convey heightened alienation.
The closer track “Still in Quarantine” was created using samples recorded by Dylan in his house during lockdown, capturing the enforced introspection produced during mental and physical confinement.
Track Listing 1. How Long 2. How Long (Times of the Sines Remix) 3. Still in Quarantine
Vocals, guitars, sampling and songwriting by Dylan Scutti Produced by Nick Wilson Mastering by Tom Glover Design by Megan Sanelli Mixing on tracks 1 & 3 by Fred Schilling and Matthew Boyd Track 2 produced by Jason Fewings Vocal recording and production by Hamish Muir, Fred Schilling and Matthew Boyd. Programming on track 1 by Thomas Copeland and Mohit Rao
A statement from Clan Analogue regarding recently decrypted data
On July 25th 2021, Clan Analogue were contacted by an anonymous source asking for assistance in decrypting a unique dataset. The source and their backers were seemingly unable to decrypt it themselves, so came to Clan Analogue for our expertise in both data and music. They were seeking music technicians.
Despite their scepticism, our IT team agreed to look into it, assembling an entirely-airgapped rack server constrained within a Faraday cage to safely examine the data without risk of wider network contamination.
The patterns that emerged did indeed match those of audio encoding frameworks, albeit an ultra-high resolution quantum audio format that we haven’t yet encountered. Furthermore, certain recurring temporal patterning indicated a correlation with music.
At this point, our source stopped communicating, leaving us with a warning that the data could be dangerous. “Yeah, it was pretty weird,” says Clan Analogue Label Manager Nick Wilson. “Possibly they were in fear of some kind of retribution. But we realised this was potentially interesting music. We just needed help to turn it into something we could hear.”
A team of Clan Analogue’s most adaptable and innovative artists were handpicked for the decryption effort. Their mission – to reconstruct these waveforms within the perceivable part of the audible frequency spectrum. These select artists were Chamberz, Tim Marcus Moore, Kable54, Reductionist and GJ Hannah. Each was given a discrete portion of the data to reconstruct as best they could.
Clan Analogue’s IT Manager Duncan Robertson tells us: “The team and I haven’t yet been able to completely decode the data… however we’ve partially decrypted it into quite a listenable format. I think of it as a four-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, extremely detailed but perhaps impossible to completely solve. If you squint your eyes, it’s actually quite beautiful.”
One other potentially significant piece of information emerged from the decryption process. Initially discarded as noise, it was realised that a piece of corrupt tri-code was actually some kind of metadata stamping algorithm. After applying several Fourier transform equations, the name Future Security Agency became apparent, along with an image. Possibly this is a key to the data’s original source.
In the interests of transparency, Clan Analogue have elected to make these Partial Decryptions available to our listeners via our Bandcamp page. We are sure you will join us in thanking Chamberz, Tim Marcus Moore, Kable54, Reductionist and GJ Hannah in their unparalleled efforts to make this audio perceivable to you.
Please note that we have been warned of potential danger arising from this data. Proceed at your own risk.
Many questions, however, remain:
What does ‘Future Security Agency’ mean?
Could the data ever be completely decoded into its purest form?
Why did the source disappear and warn of danger?
Who or what created the original data, and why?
If you have information to offer, please contact us urgently.
Update: after further testing we have made this audio available through additional streaming and download channels.
Decryption List: Decryption 1: tūūvv t l reconstructed by Chamberz Decryption 2: ganrdo l reconstructed by Tim Marcus Moore Decryption 3: lifea new l reconstructed by Kable54 Decryption 4: head rigdt l reconstructed by Reductionist Decryption 5: blonli08i1 l reconstructed by GJ Hannah
Clan Analogue launch Ming’s Addiction EP with RockNo at Swamplands
Clan Analogue re-emerges from hibernation with a night of electronic rock and techno ready to blast from the soundsystem at Swamplands, 744 High St, Thornbury, on Saturday 17th of July, from 8pm until late.
Ming’s techno odyssey from record store junkie to rave party DJ culminates with the launch of his new EP Addiction. Ming will unleash his addictive personality with a beat-driven headlining set at RockNo, moving from progressive to breakbeat and beyond.
Joining the RockNo lineup is Melbourne performer Dylan Beast, at his first Clan Analogue performance, unveiling his new industrial electronic rock sound and a batch of songs examining today’s technology-mediated landscape through noise and energy.
Hardware hacker Aday will start the night with a hi-NRG glitch breakcore set before moving to VJing duties for a dose of psychedelic visual mayhem.
Keeping the momentum rising for the night will be Melbourne DJ Ollie Lee, playing a selection of styles from across techno history and displaying his deep love and affinity with Melbourne dance music over the last two decades.
After contributions to the recent Analogue Redux and Mobile Strategies compilations, Minghas now produced his first artist release on the Clan Analogue label – the Addiction EP. With six new tracks plus remixes by Ollie Lee, Times of the Sines and Aday, Addiction celebrates all things techno – a musical style which has provided constant inspiration to artists throughout Clan Analogue’s existence as Australia’s most legendary electronic music collective.
Celebrate the re-emergence into the night of live electronic music with Clan Analogue’s RockNo, a night of electronic rock and techno, at Swamplands, 744 High St, Thornbury, on Saturday the 17th of July from 8pm, with sets from Ming, Dylan Beast, Aday and DJ Ollie Lee, and VJing by Aday.
Addiction is available from Clan Analogue in streaming, download and limited edition CD formats.
BLEO synthesizes lo-fi electronic textures and molds them into songs you can groove to. One half of the Geneva, NY electronic duo, SHRIMPS, BLEO does his solo thing mostly out of convenience. Using the cross-platform tracker software, littlegptracker aka piggy tracker, he is able to write songs quickly and on-the-go thanks to the portability of the cheap video game consoles it runs on. And Windows. It also runs on Windows and the entire program and song project files reside in a folder in his Dropbox.
