KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK — To Dream is to Destroy

Format: MC

Label & Cat.Number: Base Station BS-I

Release Year: 2023

Note: the fourth album from the Russian project (who is also behind the legendary ZHELEZOBETON label & mailorder), now being located in Amsterdam (NL), K.R. delevoped a very own experimental style based on radio sounds, drones, crackles, and multi-layered vintage electronics, a challenging ride into the reality of ether static noises with a great nostalgic flair... - lim. cassette ed. 50 copies only, CD available too

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €8.50

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This is the fourth studio album of Kryptogen Rundfunk and the first one since the project moved from Russia to the Netherlands. Six tracks full of weird trademark radio noises and interceptions, heavy bass drones and piercing high frequencies, abstract electronic signals and quirky samples. These layered compositions are slowly building up, creating thick mesmerizing walls of sound, yet at the same time leaving room for a bit of flippancy. An uneasy ride for a restless mind, but quite exciting for an attentive one!

Sources: Degen DE1103, Rokton, Korg Volca FM, ExWr Oranj, Moog Mother-32, electric guitar, field recordings and found sounds.

Treatment: Behringer DSP2024P Virtualizer Pro, Yamaha EMP100, Digitech DF-7, Mooer Reecho Pro, Mooer Reverie Reverb, various software filters and processors.

Initial recordings made in 2014-2018 in Russia, Norway and Greece. Vivisected and reassembled in February-March 2023 at Base Station, Amstelveen, The Netherlands.

Released by Base Station, distributed by Fonodroom.

https://kryptogen.bandcamp.com/album/to-dream-is-to-destroy