the end of time

from Rediscover by Van Jack

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In an unprecedented action, our cyber-archeology team managed to organize an expedition to the virtual remains of our old world. Facing the risks of the endeavor, they plugged in and reached the CYBERCITY.
As known, the CYBERCITY is an unpopulated spot left to decay right in the middle of the Internet. Once well frequented, the metropole is now a danger zone, full of ghosts and memories – the latter of which interests us greatly.

After days crossing the Collapse Area, the researchers finally arrived at the town, promptly seeking for e-museums and institutions where pieces of art could be found. Right at the entrance, however, they had an encounter with a plethora of erasure apparitions. Hiding in the first site they could get in, they soon found curious belongs there: the remnants of an old model for a physical format of media and an array of musical files.

The format proved to be, according to our meticulous study afterwards, a popular trend of music-listening in the era pre-internet. It was called “cassette tape” back then, and consists of a reel of magnetic tape and a particular shape of plastic around it. Its functioning was later analyzed and successfully replicated. In our tests, we pressed an integral copy of our Project Zero in it.

As for the files, they were mostly corrupted and beyond reading capacity. In our laboratorial analysis, only two proved to be apt for listening. Contrasting to the findings that made the Project Zero, these were longer in length and far less compressed. We could not quite set a date to them; some tests point similarities with Web 1.0-age sounds, but other examinations identify a lot of other material included in their bulk, as if they were manipulated later, in some moment closer to the Event. Lastly, two titles came attached to them, revealing a stark preoccupation with things to come.

Maintaining our compromise with public information and anthropological disclosure, we present to the inquisitive eye and the restless mind the intriguing sounds of an ageless time, defying once again our perception of the concept. We might as well be thrilled by these louder and challenging tracks.

The Department of Memoryvague


(this is cycle 2)

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from Rediscover, released April 21, 2019

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Houdini Mansions Easley, South Carolina

Houdini Mansions was an experimental tape label presenting unique audio, deep-seated eccentricities, and obscure sound artifacts of rarefied nature.

The label ceased operation in mid 2020, and has not been heard from since.

[Under new management as of July 2021 ~ A.M.] ... more

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