Pre-order of Party Music For Popular People. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases November 26, 2021
$10AUD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Deluxe 12" green vinyl LP featuring cover art by Larissa Macfarlane and null hypothesis
*Please note: pressing delays may be in effect (thanks again Covid) and we will update you upon release day.
Includes digital pre-order of Party Music For Popular People.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Heavy Machinery Records is proud to present 'Party Music For Popular People' the mind-bending new album from Melbourne electronica genius null hypothesis.
Are you a person? Are you popular? Do you like parties? Well, this album is made with you in mind. null hypothesis unceremoniously thrusts this screeching, mewling gift into your arms like an unwanted baby in a supermarket parking lot, confusingly accompanied by an ugly handmade card. Go on, take it. Have a nice life.
Party Music For Popular People is a multifaceted journey, exploring the chasms and peaks between relentlessly danceable noise cutups and gently nuanced ambience. Drawing inspiration from genres such as breakcore, neoclassical, death metal, donk, hip hop and chiptunes, the album somehow manages not to sound like any of them. Rather, if those genres had factories, PMFPP would be the dumping ground for their industrial waste.
On a technical and creative level, PMFPP is the product of challenge, an enforced expansion of skills. It captures the introspective vacuity that accompanies a lockdown-fuelled obsession with broadening musical horizons and learning new production techniques...all the while dancing around the bedroom to endless livestreams. The only wafts of meaning take the form of facetious self-effacement and nods to daft tropes. It’s dark, it’s brutal, it’s wry, it’s fun, it’s stupid. It may not articulate anything important, but it’s a love-letter to all the things that keep us us, while we can’t do any of the things that make us, us.
credits
releases November 26, 2021
Written / arranged / techwrangled by Elaine Carter
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio Melbourne
Spiral design by Larissa MacFarlane, remixed by null hypothesis
Graphic design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative
Project coordination by Naretha Williams
Series curated and produced by Miles Brown
Broken beats/blips/distorted-crashy-glitchy-desolate noisescapes. Mostly made from field recordings and decaying
electronics. Samples cut compulsively, looped and arranged with all the panache of a five-day-old goat and spat back out in a pounding tangle. There's stupid blippy gameboy stuff in there sometimes too....more
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