#brutaż

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Listen/purchase: Optimal Tree Discovery  by Boundary

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Brutaż - RA Label Of The Month by Resident Advisor https://ift.tt/2IN4p4H

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VTSS live @ Brutaż alongside Discwoman crew <3 

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11.11.17 VTSS & ISNT played Room4Resitance x Brutaż @ About Blank, Berlin

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Ice Dog - Babylon Fish (Brutaż) - Poland's astonishing #Brutaż label & party continues with its fifth installment, this one veering into woozy electronics, deep #rhythms, slicing percussion, slithering atmosphere and unexpected sounds. Available here: http://halcyontheshop.com/ice-dog-babylon-fish-bruta/

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Carlo Maria - Miagolandia [Brutaż 004]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fSKxaBeCA

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Mchy i Porosty: Untitled (Brutaż 03)

REVIEW

Release date / label: March 2017 / Brutaż

I don’t write in English, usually. But I’d like to embed some text about this record. This is how the EP is described by its creators: 

“Mchy i Porosty stands for 'mosses and lichens'. Its EP on Brutaż - a hopeless Polish party night and 'label' - is a story on broken dreams, mold, dying and crippled love.”

Give it a listen first: 

I like that it’s being labeled as a bunch of love songs. It must be a rough love. Every love is, I guess. 

The description goes on with the following understatement:  

“Hailing from a deserted town in the middle of Polish nowhere, the artist failed to "deliver" - the record is not "effective", "punchy", nor it's a "hyper-Techno", "breathtaking", and won't really cause a testosterone overdose.“ 

In fact, the record (a vinyl-only one to be released in one or two weeks) fails to deliver a genre product. One of its main strengths. 

The EP starts with this one: 

“The opening song - "Czarna plaża" [black beach] is a bleak and relentless beat about disillusioned teen romance - the two stand on the black beach with black tar oozing from their hearts.” 

Brutaż releases music via Lobster distribution (the distributor behind/beside the label Lobster Theremin) and the first track is almost like a tribute. Lo-fi house. 

The EP then leaves the safety zone and goes exploring. A very good deed. (It remains lo-fi all the way, which corresponds to the Zeitgeist, I guess. I never really got what the lo-fi fever, in general, wants to express. In a high-end era, we deliberately make records sound bad (quality). Is it again an escape to our sexy past a’la Mark Fisher?)

“A2 - "Dziwna śmierć" [strange death] is a melodic song about funny and surprising things that happen after you die.”

This one is my favourite. The track reminds me of Fridge’s Of, somehow.  

"Wężowe ruchy" [snake moves] is an off-beat, guitar-driven impression about the way her body moves when she's a snake, it's also about love.”

Yes, this can definitely be a love song. A jam in your heart on day one. No idea what the vocals say. Vocals appear in all tracks. Some native hint:   

“Gloomy dark-trip industrial of "Cholewa" tells a story about a guy named Maciek Cholewa - funnily, he had abnormal overgrowth of a bone in his neck that almost tore his spinal cord. In a track, the doctor describes the dangers of a possible medical procedure. A magical flying furry shit that somehow helped.”

The final track is dark as hell. I remember the Contort parties in Berlin starting at noon on Sundays. I loved them. They would play the darkest techno in Berlin’s probably darkest club but it was still fun and easy-going. It was just a silly Sunday afternoon after all. 

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