Yves - Tributary
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The first offering on brand new Bristol-label (cc Silver Waves) 'Weighted My Hand'.
Yves aka William Messenger lays down 'four crystalline cuts of synthetic abstraction' that let's glistening FM synthesis and eerie synth-acoustics hover, float and circumvent satisfyingly low frequencies that crawl around you like heavy fog.
This one feels fully futuristic and sharp, but there's plenty of human melancholy and 'organic' feel to it as well, it's a mix of natural tones and menacing, yet tightly contained synthesis - like a post-apocalyptic shard of an early 00's Drum & Bass record, or maybe a Tarkosvky scene, re-captured in an ether where time and space moves differently.
Here is our fun sci fi short text, as imagined whilst listening to the music on Tributary.
"humans exist only in form of database memory projection, and AI controlled organisms. yet, there is a drive to 'feel'. The archival scan of this soundtrack captured on an ancient reel from 2k25, by mysterious producer 'Yves' serves to help compose the organism of industrial life in 2k-whatever-year-it is, it helps these working organisms to maintain a line to this confusing remnant of memory from past life in the biosphere, which couldn't successfully be 100% erased.
Somehow this piece of music serves as a component for the AI organisms to feel a purpose and to sharpen their thought process and it drives a deep urge to philosophize, a term that was banned and 99.9% exterminated in 2k70. The music somehow sits in between the relatable and legal code of 0's and 1's, but it has a deeper narrative and feel that helps the HD-brain feel anchored in past memories of human life... Unbeknownst to 'the great overseer', a network master who has 00% remnant of humanity, and became GOD in 2k71.
It does not have the ability to understand 'music', as we knew it pre-apocalypse. To him all music sounds like mere 0's and 1's created for productivity (what used to be called 'muzak' in the old days').
But the author of this particular music which got trapped in the ethernet archive of tape reels created between 1980 - 2025 transcribed a code of hope and memory into the frequwncy arrangements which run a deeper message for future generations, only to be understood by Ai organisms rooted in the 'old way of thinking', before humans were officially rendered obsolete.
Tributary carries an underlying feeling of past-future-tense encoded in organic sound and retro-futurist aesthetic. There was hope that the Tributary file could trigger a rebellion, a new way back to old ways, pre-kollaps (a term coined by Einstürzende Neubauten) a hope for the society of post-apocalypse to return to human thinking, to re-start from scratch... And it seems, it could be working, because the smell of battery acid and burning hard drives is emanating from 'work rooms' all over the network, whilst the AI organisms are only seemingly functioning 'as normal'. The overseer has yet to notice that the soundtrack of Yves Tributary is projected into their earlobes on repeat....
To be continued."
4 track tape, comes with DL.