THING by Problem Anderer Leute I RDKPL I Manufacturer I Fallen Sun

released July 4, 2025

With this tenth edition, attenuation circuit continues its series of four-way split albums called THING. The aim is to provide a medium for exchange and presentation of a great variety of artists. As each artist spreads the copies to their network, listeners also get to know the other artists featured on the same disc. The title references the fact that the CDs are physical objects – things! – but also refers to the 'thing' or 'ding' in old Norse and other Germanic languages, which designates the place of a popular assembly or the assembly itself and thus alludes to the 'meeting-place' character of the albums on (or around) which the four artists and their audiences meet, if only virtually.

This THING brings together noise artists from Germany (Problem Anderer Leute), Czechia (RDKPL and Manufacturer), and Malaysia (Fallen Sun). Play at high volume, because all four contributions operate in a field where noise is not just a compositional concept, but an integral part of the listening experience, and, as such, should be as physical a thing as possible. Grinding loops, stuttering distortion, spanners thrown into the works of a whole factory’s worth of machinery only to listen, gleefully, to the collapse of one system after another – all four walls of this noisy space pay tribute to some of the most important axioms of noise art: „Out of order comes forth chaos“ (Charles Heyward), and entropy is bliss.

File under: noise