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Stellate 1 marks the start of the Stellate Series: sounds gathered from the experimental frontiers and outer
edges of electronic music. For every Stellate release four producers have each created two tracks. The eight
resulting tracks highlight four unique minds and the disparate sounds that gravitate together at the periphery.
SASTE001 brings together the visions of Lucy, Borful Tang, Perc and Kevin Gorman: yet as diverse as the forms
and textures that they use are, something intangible provides a sense of unity. Stellate 1 taps into the place
where electronic music-making began. It delves into a liminal Post-War atmosphere where the very fabric of
society was being completely re-thought and composers dug into dissonance to explore the essence of making it
new. Lucy references this Modernist legacy with track titles taken from Beckett’s bowler hat clad characters in
‘Waiting For Godot’, a play where nothing happens, twice. In Lucy’s hands 'Estragon’ and ‘Vladimir’ are
transported forwards to the point where Post-War becomes Post-Riot and where Post-Modernism trickles into
nothing more that the Post-Millennium. The optimism of 2000 has faded giving way to a slump where we wait
impatiently for Godot. Post post-prefixes you’ll find Borful Tang. ‘Meet The Band’ and ‘The Seduction Ends In
Tears’ are somewhere between eyebrow raising and brow furrowing. Oblique to the nth degree and processed
into another era the tracks are populated by haunting presences. Created entirely from the debris of the C20th,
Borful Tang extracts droning, stuttering dialoguesand remembered conversations that are filled only with
regrets. Distancing himself from his instinctively physical approach to music, Perc's ‘Paris’ and ‘Molineux’ lay aside
the mores of the dance floor. This is not music that you recognize, categorize and listen to passively: these
tracks demand an audience with your inner ear.