Published
Thu, May 30, 2019, 18:50
- The first volume of the conceptual set is out now via Fundamental Records.
Cygnus is putting out a four-album series called Machine Funk.
This first volume features 14 new tracks spread across three slabs of vinyl (one of which is a picture disc), coming in at 79 minus in total. The label calls Machine Funk 1 "a dense collection of experimental compositions... full of warm vocoders and multilayered acidic sequences."
The LP takes inspiration Barry Windsor-Smith's 1984 comic Machine Man, which tells the story of "a near future dominated by mega-corporations... a dystopian paradise where a group of technology raiders, known as the Midnight Wreckers, recover the dismantled remains of an old machine with human appearances inside of a dumpster."
2019 is already a busy year for Cygnus, real name Phillip Washington—he also put out the Deep Analysis EP on CPU and self-released an album called Voyager VII.
Listen to clips of Machine Funk 1.
You can check out a video teaser and text for the full backstory over at Fundamental's website.
Tracklist
A1 Shadows Of Jocasta
A2 Midnight Wreckers
A3 Random Access Terrorists
B1 Searching For The Zeta Block
B2 Commodore Hacker
C1 Machine Wave
C2 The Kenji Corporation
D1 Hypnotized
D2 Xeli Code Breakers
D3 Aurora Cyber Systems
E1 5-ME Hub JTL
E2 Black Market Robotics
F1 Vidiot
F2 Urban Living
Machine Funk 1is out now via Fundamental Records.
