New Editions label imprint relaunched
New artist releases out today from Pattern Recognition Machines and Zacharias Szumer x Raung Jagat Synthetic
Ten years ago (which in Covid-terms, is another universe entirely) there was a spin-off / sub label / imprint from New Weird Australia called New Editions. Sidestepping our usual compilation format, New Editions was dedicated to releasing artist-led EPs and albums. Across ten Editions, we released exclusive music from such as Marcus Whale & Thomas William (T.Morimoto), Kris Keogh, Spartak, No Zu and more. (Get caught up with the series sampler here).
New Editions returns today, a decade later, for a sequel, a Chapter Two, or to borrow Kevin Feige parlance, a Phase 2. The heart of the imprint remains the same - artist releases that occupy a unique place in their discography, often transient / orphan / overlooked projects in need of a context and a home.
The first two releases in this reboot are from Pattern Recognition Machines and Zacharias Szumer, in collaboration with Rully Shabara from Senyawa. Both are available now on the New Weird Australia Bandcamp, free to stream, with a pay-what-you-can support option that sees all contributions delivered to the artist.
Pattern Recognition Machines was originally a duo of Vijay Thillaimuthu and Sam Price on synth and drums respectively. You might recall their contribution to our 2020 compilation, Solitary Wave (Out). For the New Editions release Monad, they’ve expended to include Chloë Sobek on violone & electronics and Robert Vincs on woodwinds, and delivered something of a free-pysch freak-jazz monster.
Zacharias Szumer’s release is a rework of Rully Shabara’s accapella-AI release Synthetic Vocabulary, released under the Raung Jagat Synthetic name. The voices of Synthetic Vocabulary evoked text-to-speech generators running through endless arrays of morphemes and tones. For the remix collection, Zacharias Szumer takes this developmental process on a detour through rhythm and melody and warped experimental electronics.
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Thanks for making it this far down the newsletter. Here’s a special bit of news by way of thanks. The next New Weird Australia is out next month and it’s called Fragile States. 25 tracks across over two hours, exploring radical facets of abstract experimentation, field recordings, sound art and so-called-ambient music. I always say ‘this one is special’, because they all are. So, yes, this one is special.
Until then, stay safe and fly the freak flag high.
Stu x