Universal Cell Unlock

Universal Cell Unlock

Quasimodo The Streetsweeper

Psychic Sounds

***"What remarks can recall the pampered page when the subject shines through so many shaken seams? The remarks are for the producer of Quasimodo The Streetsweeper, the mysterious, though constantly revealing, CF, presenting himself here as UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK. CHRISTOPHER FORGUES of BROWN RECLUSE ALPHA, MARK LORD, KITES, and author of blazetastic comic books—ever checkout Power Masters? What remarks could remain after all that? However, one still finds this fresh pile of inviting and mature music, coated in the haunting haze of digital reverb. What premeditated remark could recharge reminisces of New York more than the city’s newly appointed director of rodent mitigation? The lost legend of Tony Conrad running up the steps of a Manhattan church to meet the mysterious mad one playing the bells in the spire, Charlemagne Palestine. The bristles from the machines of swirling repetition that push parking brush to the side are repurposed here as pluckphonic metal keys, mined for their rich harmonic content. There are strategies taken from the decidedly unfocused on New York musical tradition of American and global capital-N Noise music. An invitation to a closed eye head bob is quickly revoked with a shock call to attentiveness. There’s an attentiveness here. Across forty minutes of percussion music, with some stark electronic accouterments along the way, the focus on the form and compositional aspects is forgotten only to let the sounds build and interact without pesky human interruption. That’s the remark to recall: remarkable music with new surprises pushed through."—Ben Kudler

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Innocence Of Logic

Psychic Sounds

***As children we are disturbed from inner grace and mused, bored or threatened into awareness of the outside world in these recordings patterns emerge and are interrupted like a conversation in a garden, logic gates, and my directives mingle in importance. Responsibility or force is avoided. Primitive homemade analog computers were used to make electronic sounds and manipulate acoustic instruments in free running chaotically generative programs that are written by patching logic gate clusters with wires. Theres is no machine "memory" aside from the patches themselves, and the equations the circuits reliable math but audio-rate accidents spilling out of hashed streams of data. The same primal state of polarized data pulses build into the complex horrors of culture, finance, and communication we think we recognize on our devices. Yet electricity itself retains it's mystique, animated not by our will but by still poorly understood natural laws that transcend human concerns.

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Fugitive Numbers

Psychic Sounds

***"Universal Cell Unlock's Fugitive Numbers feels like a record about memory. Memories looping, paused and superimposed. Something about these pieces feels monumental without reaching for it to be so. The shock of the now, a new world being born within a dying world, a new awareness crowning. A moment telescoping from the banal to the sublime and back again.Fugitive Numbers has similarities to a film soundtrack but we discover that the film is comprised of individual scenes all glitching on pause, a plate spinner at the end of his act. I'm reminded a bit of Asmus Tietchens Biotop LP. There’s a similar sense of pacing and patience. Like motion lines in a comic panel a sense of momentum is conveyed more than development or changes of scenery, a single film cell illuminated before it flares up. Landscapes blurring into a memory blurring into a familiar smell...exhaust, cigarette smoke, a basement after a party... gone in a flash. Night of the Comet explained third hand. There’s a sense of a kind of floating speed here to me. This is definitely music meant for the car. For driving. That combination of movement and stasis that allows for memories to bubble up, to recombine, to present a challenge...that if you drive fast enough you'll create something... a new world...slip past what is known to something new and absurd, colorful and constantly shifting. To unpause the scene and let it play through..." Includes hand stamped and black & white by CF and one-side screen...