RxRy - "RxB" (mixtape)

The stupendous Stadiums & Shrines just posted this mini-mix of "next level future R&B music for the pre-apocalyptic masses," as curated by RxRy.  Featuring Frank Ocean, Mount Kimbie, The Weeknd, How To Dress Well, Com Truise, Aphex Twin, Delorean, Burial and Balam Acab, among others.  Future R&B, filtered and fuzzed-up as RxRy does best. 

RxRy - RxB (Mixtape) Side A
RxRy - RxB (Mixtape) Side B

Stadiums & Shrines also said that RxRy's Alpha microLP/megaEP is due on vinyl in June.

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RxRy - Alpha + guest mixtape

Over the weekend, Casket Crash Vigil favorite RxRy made his Alpha "microLP/megaEP" available for download at his blog.  (UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, the download was taken down, as Alpha is now due for release on vinyl this May!)  As the artist described in an interview with GIMME TINNITUS, Alpha is "comprised of samples taken from an AM radio and manipulated via midi sequencing."  Having had the chance to hear Alpha, I can say that the resulting sounds are the most sonically saturated we've heard from RxRy.  They are also quite possibly his best work to date.  If the sound-canceling properties of outer space somehow enabled the transmission of noise from producer to consumer, this is doubtless what we'd hear as spaceships stretched into star-bending warp speed. I have a feeling, though, that the artist himself hears these sounds as more earthly than extraterrestrial.  In keeping with Mother Earth, then, these are the sounds of a future in which the biological and technological have become one and the same.  Witness the cybernetic crickets on "L.2_Evaporated" for an example.  Stream that and "A2.2_Phase" below; stay tuned for news on Alpha's vinyl release.

RxRy - L.2_Evaporated
RxRy - A2.2_Phase

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In the meantime, RxRy was kind enough to make a guest mix for me.  I asked him around 12:40 PM on Saturday; it was in my inbox before 10:00 PM that night.  Featuring Aphex Twin, Atlas Sound, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tim Hecker and others, it was inspired by "the subtle shift in light between 3:32pm and 5.58pm."  Listen/download below.

RxRy's The Subtle Shift In Light Between 3.32pm and 5.58pm Mixtape

Artwork/tracklist after the jump:

Com Truise X RxRy

All-time Casket Crash Vigil favorite RxRy just remixed red-hot synth wizard Com Truise, turning the blistered synth pop of "Sundriped" into a blissed-out beauty that shimmers on and on.  The resulting sound is the aural equivalent of white hot sun reflecting off the metallic wing of an air-bound jet.  Listen to RxRy's "Eat Suun" remix and Com Truise's original below.  Both artists have full-lengths due this spring.

Com Truise - Sundriped (RxRy's Eat Suun Remix)
Com Truise - Sundriped

RxRy - Alpha (Coming May 2011)

Something's afoot from dream-state drown-step artist RxRy.  The artist's blog features five new teaser videos and a promise for something by the name of Alpha, to arrive this year.  A fourth full-length?  A new EP?  An audio-visual album a la Animal Collective's "Oddsac"?  Only time will tell.  The sounds showcased in the following teaser videos are the most sonically saturated we've heard from RxRy.  It's early, and the audio snippets are short, but they may also be the most promising yet. 

EDIT: Alpha is a "microLP/megaEP," originally released as a free download, now set for release on vinyl this May.  Read more here.


A | RxRy | 1 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


L | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


P | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


H | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


A.2 | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.
 
RxRy on Blogger / SoundCloud / Vimeo

RxRy - "Aertigo Lapsees" Video

RxRy: Aertgo Lapsees from Ezra Ewen on Vimeo.

RxRy just posted an Ezra Ewen-directed video for "Aertigo Lapsees," one of the many standout tracks from his Ω album.  The video doesn't feature trains, as the song seems to, but it is filmed in dark basement with a shrouded figure tinkering around on an old piano and getting sucked into a TV as well as stock footage of space exploration.  So it matches the song's swirling grayish atmosphere well.  Recommended viewing.

(via RxRy's Blog)

RxRy - Ω

Please forgive my RxRy-related redundancy, but the artist has graciously offered his latest album, Ω, for free download at his blog. It readily awaits your consumption.

On first listen, Ω is a life-affirming stream of ambient soundscapes and stuttering beats. Song titles that reference air and rail travel feature aural examinations of the same: these are sounds we can only imagine we'd hear floating weightlessly above the clouds or charging full steam ahead, soaring or spinning metal traveling through space and time.

After one listen, or many, you may not find a "favorite" song or even remember any of the titles. That's because RxRy's music lulls you to dream-like state, where details such as song titles and track lengths aren't important or even perceptible. At a certain level, you are not actively listening to music. The music is actively transforming and transporting you. Let it take you where you want to go.

More words on Ω will likely follow in the near future.

Sample three artist-selected songs from Ω below.  Then get Ω - and the rest of RxRy's excellent discography - here.

ΩPLYLST by RxRy

RxRy.2

Here's an interview I wish I'd done: with RxRy, the self-described "drownstep" artist who's equal parts enigma and excellent. But never mind my self-interest: fellow blogger Stadiums and Shrines did a more than stellar job, with a beautifully-written introduction and insightful questions that both compliment and challenge the artist. What's revealed is an artist who's acutely aware of how identity and persona intersect in the age of instant gratification, and how these constructs affect our exposure to and perception of his music. Anonymity, it seems, can propel an artist from relative obscurity to omnipresence almost overnight (see: iamamiwhoami), but RxRy's preference for a "low profile" seems genuine, not gimmicky. Never mind a band biography or detailed demographics. RxRy might say: These are my songs. Or, more simply, these are songs. What do they mean to you? How do they make you feel?

Head over to Stadiums and Shrines for a great read. The icing on the cake is a gratis download of "Obtvse Boqœt Conc¨ssion," the second single, so to speak, from RxRy's upcoming album Ω.

RxRy - Obtvse-Boqœt-Conc¨ssion by casketcrashvigil

And here's "Aertigo Lapsees," the first single from Ω.

RxRy - Aertgo Lapsees

Previously:

RxRy - Sobr Vokbulry

RxRy - Eaurowi