In between Tommy Four Seven’s first album, Primate, and his second, Veer, the British producer wrote “OX1,” a track featured in Netflix’s recent animated sci-fi anthology Love, Sex and Robots. The song soundtracks the surreal episode “The Witness,” specifically during a long chase where a killer pursues a woman. When the woman makes a narrow escape into a cab, “OX1” clarifies underneath as an element of the vacant metropolis.

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In a 2016 interview, TREE speaks (somewhat elusively) about a break-in that cost him “all my studio equipment… all my masters… a lot of unreleased Chance [the Rapper] tracks… [and] a Roc Marciano joint that never came out.” The MC/producer best known for his massively influential SoulTrap sound speculated that the $20,000 studio mic he’d received as a gift probably resides in a pawn shop somewhere with a $500 price tag.

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There has always been a fair share of structured cave-ins happening with avant-garde electronic music, wherein the sound is fighting with itself and we ostensibly are to find purchase in this tension and engage. Sometimes these works elude us, and sometimes they simply alienate us from friends, thereby imperceptibly de-prioritizing the material. But Piotr Kurek has given us the sort of gem here that feels special enough that you wanna keep it to yourself, rather than potentially taint it with an inescapably witty, glib outside assessment.

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Terry Allen’s sculpture, Modern Communication, is on display in Kansas City, MO. It is standing, resolute, in front of the Kansas City Police Department’s Communications building and has rendered a mix of bewilderment, disgust, and cautious fascination from those subjected to it.

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