Immersion Breaker by starsmoke
XNR001 // IMMERSION BREAKER
This 8-track album of glitch, IDM/braindance, deep dubstep, and more — all recorded in live sessions — changes the perception of what’s real in a society full of immersion, breaking the barrier between this real world and a fictional one…
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"starsmoke's new album 'Immersion Breaker' ruptures such hypnotic states because it is a record of structural combustion, of virtuosic investigation into the furthest disorientation possible within the frameworks of genre. Its sound sits somewhere between dubbed-out glitchwise trap and the autobiography in bass music of a maniacal mainframe.
IB is characterized by a ubiquity of flourishes destabilizing the containment limits of "dance" music. At almost every moment some meaningful embellishment skitters by, nauseating the notion of comfort, perforating any schema that could be found beneath all this.
Yet the beauty of the record is that at no moment does it destroy itself. This is still an album of bass music. It is just one that populates this setting with such technical creativity and impish instinct that it defamiliarizes any notion of categorization, inhabiting a genre but remaking it at every moment anew." - tskali, Realist Alive Radio
From starsmoke:
"The name, 'immersion breaker', is just some interesting/funny mental floss for me. Usually used in a negative sense, like, "that term shouldn't be used in this series or show because they wouldn't have had that word in that time period, it's a real immersion breaker." But little imperfections in art like that are unavoidable, and show humanity. An immersion breaker is like an "easter egg" that nods to the actual state of things. So, I like to repurpose the term: as in to snap out of it, to wake up. People can look to immerse themselves in art to escape reality and humanity, but what I look for in my art is the reinforcing of the two. Though I do love to entertain fantastical, exaggerated sounds and concepts, it's never a step outside of what is real to me."
Tracklist
| 1. | dreamcast | 5:17 |
| 2. | astarisk | 3:27 |
| 3. | floerp | 5:15 |
| 4. | phazon huffer | 5:31 |
| 5. | phrogoprophlex | 5:02 |
| 6. | jaimas vu | 3:45 |
| 7. | hyperlyze | 6:14 |
| 8. | andromeda DLC | 4:52 |
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starsmoke is the moniker of Illinois-based experimental electronic musician Kai Doherty, active since 2013, His music focuses on progressive territory, high fidelity soundscapes, and infinite meditation. Everything by starsmoke is live — written, designed, and generated on hardware.