"Tribes" is ARCHITECT's second release on Metasonar and his first Techno album. The album includes six techno tracks and two ambient pieces, continuing his consistently rough, abstract, and introspective musical style.
Each piece titled "Dogma" uses only five audio tracks and the same effects on each one. All the sounds were designed to fit together and form a library, later to be used in live performances with flexible structures. These self-imposed limitations not only maintain a consistent general style but also echo the literal meaning of "Dogma."
Thematically, the album continues his reflections on the Anthropocene and the human condition, exploring the invariability of human behavior within tribalism. Territory, as the foundation of human reproduction, becomes the object we defend and identify with. Based on these identifications, different dogmas evolve, gradually differentiating into various tribes and forming distinct societies.
The album's repetitive rhythms and ritualistic atmosphere symbolize dogmas or the pursuit of transcendence. Yet, these efforts are like Sisyphus' futile toil in the face of inevitable entropy.
I am interested in addressing the paradox of being out of the nature and at the same time hopelessly in it. The artistic approach to the existential investigations on time, space, contingency, nothingness, biological life, decay and death, is a legit and seductive approach from our position of condemned conscious beings.