Aelters / Ardchilds' Com.undo

Sonig

Aelters spends a lot of time on the production of microscopically small cut-ups. Technical errors are not eradicated, but integrated into his music. There is no such thing as a mistake. When the software is stuck, when machines hum and click — this is when making music starts. The computer has a mind of its own, and Aelters is happy to let it have its way. Plunderphonics, the joyful, media-critical poaching of the musical rubbish by which we are surrounded, is key to Aelters’s work principles. His mixture of scraps of breakcore, scattered hard beats, spoken word collages, clicks, nursery rhymes and scenes of violence from action-packed movies are created “with enough weirdness and clicks to keep both the dancers and the laptop nerds happy.” Aural snapshots (a family murmuring over supper, neighbors’ sex-noises, those somehow ironic beats) “fall into the right places.” His music knows no plan, but “just mutates along.” Some of the compositions on Ardchilds’ com.undo are about three years old and have been reworked for this album multiple times; they have been re-re-re-arranged, until barely anything is left in common with the source material. This manic restlessness makes Aelters a typical Sonig artist. Aelters grew up with heavy metal, ’90s pop hits, the traditional Spanish music of his mother, and his friends in Dat Politics.  • A cut-up classic essential to Plunder-philes and glitchworshippers • Logically appeals to the Tigerbeat6 fanbase

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