exostrata by I.C.G.

exostrata is the new album from Brazilian producer I.C.G. It is a dense topology of abstract textures, organic tones, field recording detritus, decomposed samples, and manipulated soundbites. exostrata plunges through cumulative layers of diverse material; through petrified matter and sonic ruin to emerge with creeping cuts of darkside jungle and percussive meditations on the vibrant materialism of rejectamenta. The sound of exostrata is that of a heavy ambience; a sonic xenoarcheology dredging thick tangles of breakbeats and digital fossil musique concrète from the alienated core of the built world.

The tracks and the accompanying videos conjure humid and swamp-like alien environments: the speculative landscapes and post-natural ecologies that constitute a swelling trash continuum which now supersedes our lumpen biomass. While arts and music discourses abound with ambitions of ‘world-building’, exostrata acknowledges and explores the extant and incommensurable nonhuman lifeworlds emerging from organic putrefaction and digital decay. exostrata embodies the dark vitality that haunts entropy; the architecture of decay. By manipulating and processing soundbites until they saturate their own materiality I.C.G. imposes an interruption upon symbolic order - audio samples are extricated from any pretension of ‘original' context to be re-rendered among an uncanny landscape of desolate horizons.

exostrata is the 2nd release on the Most Dismal Swamp label.

Most Dismal Swamp is a model for curating, collaborating and convivial speculation; a modular and miasmic crew. Operating at multiple scales and registers, Most Dismal Swamp is an art project, a curatorial MMORPG, a fiction, a party, a mixed-reality biome and an independent record label.

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