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artist...: Matrixxman :::::::::
title....: Homesick :::::::::
label....: Ghostly International :::::::::
cat.nr...: GI245 :::::::::
style....: Techno :::::::::
quality...: 320kbps@44.kHz :::::::::
chan-mode.: Stereo :::::::::
rls.size.: 139.34 MB source....: WEB :::::::::
rls.date.: Jul-15-2015 encoder...: Lame :::::::::
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Before digging into the steely, handcrafted technoisms of :::::::::
Homesick, you need to know a few things about Charles Duff, :::::::::
the Bay Area artist behind Matrixxman. Perhaps most :::::::::
importantly, he is a dedicated futuristquick to name :::::::::
Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, as a major :::::::::
personal inspiration, and prone to contemplating artificial :::::::::
intelligence and "a true post-corporeal reality." He's also :::::::::
a voracious information junkie, soaking up government :::::::::
conspiracies and contemporary science-fiction like a proper :::::::::
X-Files fanatic. These cultural reference points are as :::::::::
integral to the background of Homesick as Detroit, Chicago, :::::::::
and Berlin's musical legacies. Across the record's :::::::::
versatile tracklist, Matrixxman uses the language of :::::::::
machines and dancefloors like a hungry pulp novelist, :::::::::
weaving together his divergent narratives and characters :::::::::
under one sprawling dystopian sky. If you listened to :::::::::
techno and house in 2014, you've undoubtedly heard the name :::::::::
Matrixxman. The guy has been on a prolific tear since :::::::::
debuting his project in 2013, having issued no fewer than :::::::::
12 "cold-ass futuristic" releases and taken his techno- :::::::::
centric DJ sets around the world in under two years. But :::::::::
his story reaches much further into the past: back to being :::::::::
a drum & bass-obsessed teenager in the late '90s, back to :::::::::
when Duff's best friend changed his life with a Juan Atkins :::::::::
mix CD in 2001, back to producing for hotly tipped MCs like :::::::::
Le1f, Ty Dolla Sign, and YG. Matrixxman is already a :::::::::
venerable pro with workmanlike constitution, to say the :::::::::
least, and yet his debut album has only just materialized. :::::::::
"My obsession with the darker sides of humanity's exploits :::::::::
gone awry is secondary to the more important matter at :::::::::
heart: evolutionary transcendence," Matrixxman explains. :::::::::
And his focus on cybernetic themes shines through the :::::::::
music. Emergent AI, interplanetary travel, neuroenhancement :::::::::
drugs, incredible opulence juxtaposed with abject poverty, :::::::::
leaving physical form and existing as dataHomesick distills :::::::::
the concepts into thick acid lines, brawny 909 patterns, :::::::::
tonal contrasts, dynamic aesthetics, and viscous pads :::::::::
steeped in digital ephemera. It begins with "Necronomicon", :::::::::
a massive black cloud of noxious ambience looming over our :::::::::
story, and ends on the astral mysticism of "Earth Like :::::::::
Conditions". Yes, there is an arc built into Homesick, and :::::::::
the sci-fi epic it illustrates seizes your undivided :::::::::
attention. Even the tracklist speaks volumes to the :::::::::
record's music and narrativefrom the enhanced motorik :::::::::
systems of "Augmented" and "Network Failure"'s cognitive :::::::::
dissonance, to the dark hedonism in "Opium Den" and the :::::::::
drum machine violence that drives "Switchblade". As :::::::::
Matrixxman says himself, "The titles correlate to distinct, :::::::::
separate scenes." And those visuals just about come alive :::::::::
on tracks like "Packard Plant"a whirring, windswept homage :::::::::
to the desolate Detroit landmarkor the album's haunted and :::::::::
distant centerpiece, "Annika's Theme". Duff is quick to :::::::::
share Annika's identity: "She's an incredibly gifted :::::::::
neuroscientist, pursuing cutting-edge research in fields :::::::::
that will have a profound impact on humanity." But what :::::::::
exactly she accomplishes and where she goes is unexplained. :::::::::
Homesick outlines the cues needed to follow along, careful :::::::::
to leave room for us to fill in the details. Matrixxman :::::::::
uses his debut album to evoke visions of a not-too- :::::::::
distant-future with music made both for the dancefloor and :::::::::
the early morning zone-outs that follow. These are the real :::::::::
world applications of Homesick, though Duff comes to it all :::::::::
from an entirely different mindset. "We will have the :::::::::
technological capability to fully map out a human brain in :::::::::
its entirety within 30 years," he starts. "The implications :::::::::
of such a possibility are deep and far reaching. We will be :::::::::
crossing a rubicon towards a new phase in human :::::::::
consciousness. I am one person that is prepared to take :::::::::
that step." Once you emerge on the other side of Homesick, :::::::::
it seems possible that Matrixxman already has. :::::::::
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01 : Necronomicon 09:39 :::::::
02 : Augmented 05:57 :::::::
03 : Red Light District 03:37 :::::::
04 : Packard Plant 04:21 :::::::
05 : Dejected 01:24 :::::::
06 : Network Failure 05:10 :::::::
07 : False Pattern Recognition 07:06 :::::::
08 : Opium Den 05:54 :::::::
09 : Annika's Theme 04:17 :::::::
10 : HMU (Hit Me Up) (Feat. Vin Sol) 04:39 :::::::
11 : Switchblade 05:07 :::::::
12 : Earth Like Conditions 03:37 :::::::
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We purchase records and rip them so other people can hear the tracks ::::::
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