“We all dance away our lives to the tune of the sovereign pleasure-pain axis.” – David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative Pleasure-seeking and pain-avoidance as a rave metaphor fits the music of Sam Barker. The Berghain resident and Leisure System co-founder has spent the last few years exploring the euphoric potential of altering key variables in dance music formu...(展开全部) “We all dance away our lives to the tune of the sovereign pleasure-pain axis.” – David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative Pleasure-seeking and pain-avoidance as a rave metaphor fits the music of Sam Barker. The Berghain resident and Leisure System co-founder has spent the last few years exploring the euphoric potential of altering key variables in dance music formulas. This was especially true on his 2018 Ostgut Ton debut EP ‘Debiasing’, which was flush with unconventional rhythmic chord stabs, melody and percussion but devoid of kickdrums. Now, on his debut solo LP ‘Utility’, he turns his focus toward melding experimentation and dancefloor pragmatism with the psychology behind the musical decision making process. ‘Utility’ is a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanist ideas: from models for quantifying pleasure and “gradients of bliss” to abolishing suffering for sentient beings (not just people) through the ethical use of drugs and nanotechnology. Over nine tracks his vision ebbs and flows through waves of deeply psychedelic musical vignettes; free-floating and futuristic melodies and rhythms as targeted brain stimulation. The sound draws heavily on modular synthesis, as well as self-built mechanical instruments and plate reverbs to create atmospheres that are at once alien and emotionally recognizable, functional and utopian.
High A-(87)Barker的这张Utility拥有着2019全年我听到的最奇妙的soundscape,极简而层次分明,宽广、深邃而具有无可比拟的流动性,像此起彼伏的海浪一样不听拍打着听众的耳膜,但他并非通过使用大量的混响来做到这一点。这里的声音清脆而尖锐,甚至兼有舞池的律动,而dub化的...
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0 有用 city lights 2020-06-09 00:09:20
拥有和你们以及独自很美好的夜晚
2 有用 MeetMeinaMaze 2019-09-12 14:50:49
稀释过后轻盈晶莹的techno混种律动、机械能量、ambient元素拉起的巨大帘幕还有兼顾的舞池友好度...技术至上的理念被Sam Barker的克制感性柔化
0 有用 Pablo 2023-01-09 23:16:52 福建
9.1 甚至想用“神奇”去形容Barker叠加的这些层层音轨
0 有用 ≈ 2020-02-12 19:31:57
(85) 段落,排序还有高频音色堆积起来的氛围色彩异常纷呈,是今年十分有代表性的,受小众乐迷和乐评媒体大量关注的德国制造Techno。不仅拥有前卫电子的流行颜色,还有不少Trance的质感。最喜欢Utility。
0 有用 dikseg 2020-10-30 21:29:51
Die-Hards Of The Darwinian Order的氛围正是我喜欢的,其它无感
0 有用 Sash 2023-08-04 01:03:06 上海
@2020-01-02 15:15:45
0 有用 山间泓 2023-01-10 16:25:24 四川
8.6 混音很干净清晰,很解压,节奏编排与音色选用趣味丰富。
0 有用 IAMNOTWRONG 2024-04-19 16:49:01 重庆
不懂
0 有用 Diamondshoes 2023-08-31 19:48:27 北京
Paradise Engineering; Hedonic Treadmill; Utility
0 有用 sunyata 2023-06-24 13:31:54 上海
姐姐喜歡的音樂和本人一樣香香的。