Waves of Change, by VC-118A

Waves of Change

by VC-118A

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Pete Srdic On repeat, cannot stop playing this superb dark beauty. Well done!

F700 Perfection does actually exist Favorite track: Motherboard.

Wandowaiato I love the whole album. The voice samples on Motherboard sent me to another dimension. Driving ambient music for the travels of a psychonaut. Favorite track: Motherboard.

buliaq "The eyes are not here,
there are no eyes here,
in this valley of dying stars,
and the reality,
between the motion,
and the act,
falls the Shadow.
Between the conception
and the creation,
between the emotion
and the response,
falls the Shadow.
Between the desire
and the spasm,
between the potency
and the existence.
We group together
and avoid speech,
Sightless.
This is the way the world ends,
this is the way the world ends,
this is the way the world ends."

"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot Favorite track: Motherboard.

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1.	Heat 05:27	buy track
2.	The Deep 04:21	buy track
3.	Stream 05:38	buy track
4.	Glub 05:39	buy track
5.	Motherboard 07:05 video	buy track
6.	You 05:24	buy track
7.	Replace Image 04:57	buy track
8.	Echo Drop 03:26	buy track
9.	Elektri 04:59	buy track
10.	Ufonic 05:57	buy track

about

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

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released September 22, 2023

written & produced by Samuel van Dijk
mastered by Neel @ Enisslab
artwork by Erris Huigens, Tijl Schneider, Sander Sturing

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