We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Artificial Imaginations

by Quilsk

supported by
sacrescare
sacrescare thumbnail
rB)
rB) thumbnail
georgiasmith5
georgiasmith5 thumbnail
nezqwei
nezqwei thumbnail
pavpavpav
pavpavpav thumbnail
hafilax
hafilax thumbnail
neonpayphone
neonpayphone thumbnail
AJW1991
AJW1991 thumbnail
thearchives
thearchives thumbnail
hazr_magiccarpet
hazr_magiccarpet thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £5 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    180g 12" LP
    Mastered by Andy Miles @ Star Delta
    Pressed by The Vinyl Factory
    Artwork by Guy Smith

    Includes unlimited streaming of Artificial Imaginations via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £17.99 GBP or more 

     

1.
Sound to Vision Synesthesia 01:48
buy track
2.
GaP-1 00:05
3.
Voyage 08:29
buy track
4.
GaP-2 00:04
5.
The Lights from Synthetic Vibrations 03:06
buy track
6.
GaP-3 00:04
7.
Mechan Organics 06:31
buy track
8.
Mesopelagic Life 02:08
buy track
9.
Invisible Migrations 02:28
buy track
10.
GaP-4 00:05
11.
Carrier Protien 04:14
buy track
12.
GaP-5 00:08
13.
Intermission 00:05
buy track
14.
GaP-6 00:05
15.
Medina Cortex 04:44
buy track
16.
GaP-7 00:05
17.
Glow From the Heart 04:23
buy track
18.
Gap-8 00:08
19.
Moon Dub 04:22
buy track
20.
Gap-9 00:08
21.
Autumns Mist 05:08
buy track

about

Fred Mikardo-Greaves on the Norman Records site says:

"Electronic music has long been the arena of the mysterion. Indeed, if you were to create the platonic ideal of an electronic musician, it would be an anonymous figure hiding their real name behind a moniker - a trope parodied, famously, by Aphex Twin in his 90s heyday. Enigmas rule here, and even with the coming of the Information Age we are still inundated with music-makers who let their machines do the talking.

The latest artist to emerge in this long and distinguished lineage is Quilsk. Besides the fact that they hail from Bristol, we’ve got nothing on Quilsk or their debut LP ‘Artificial Imaginations’. This air of mystery works in this record’s favour, cloaking an already curious album in further layers of intrigue.

‘Artificial Imaginations’ is one of those obtuse electronics-based records that evokes a very specific feeling in the listener. It’s not ominous, exactly, but there is a terseness to this thing that slyly reels you in, making you press your ear up close to the speaker to see if you can decipher any meaning from Quilsk’s oblique signals.

This same thread runs through the work of everyone from Madteo to Oberman Knocks to golden-age Metalheadz, though stylistically ‘Artificial Imaginations’ isn’t particularly similar to any of them. A few of the tracks here have the same scrunched-up sonics one finds in Oval and Autechre, but neither of those acts exhibit Quilsk’s streetwise approach to bassweight - the low-ends are where Quilsk's jungle, dub and hip-hop influences are most easily parsed.

The record that comes to mind most when listening to ‘Artificial Imaginations’ is Actress’ ‘Ghettoville’, a set of hauntological anti-techno that threw together Burial’s crackling ‘Untrue’ with the grizzled entrails of 90s electronica and chopped ‘n’ screwed hip-hop. ‘Artificial Imaginations’ is not as grey-scale as ‘Ghettoville’, and tracks like ‘Medina Cortex’ yoke together their beats in a more coherent manner, but a sense of unsteady drift is shared. And like ‘Ghettoville’, while this record might catch you cold, it might also have you hooked.

This album is dedicated to Harry Fulcher [R.I.P]

Sister Label:
relicxuk.bandcamp.com

credits

released October 4, 2019

Artwork by Guy Smith
Mastered by Andy Miles @ Star Delta
Pressed by The Vinyl Factory

license

all rights reserved

tags

contact / help

Contact New_Words

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Artificial Imaginations, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now