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Rajapïnta : Bootleg Epiphanies CDR
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"Bootleg Epiphanies" is a compilation of various material composed and recorded by Ibrahim Terzic and Niko Skorpio in various locations 2001-2006. Compiled and edited by Niko Skorpio in May/June 2007 in order to document the hundreds of hours of work and experiments Rajapïnta have done through these years.

The duo exercise extensive aural alchemy of mutating samples beyond recognition. There's heaps of tension and energy, and a presence that is unwilling to stay in one place for too long. Constant movement. Material ranges from subdued electro-acoustic soundscapes to fierce noise assaults.

This is a semi-official, not-on-label release. The discs have been packed in surplus 7" sleeves (those of Reptiljan/Ibrahim Terzic split 7"), sealed with a large sticker that contains the art & info of the actual release. Limited edition of 123 copies, hand-numbered.

The sleeve also carries a Tony Conrad quote from The Wire, it manages to perfectly describe the idea behind Rajapïnta:

"The difference between an epiphany and a simple drug rush is that an epiphany reveals some kind of cultural truth. The condition of epiphany is a moment of stark contrast, a slippage of the two surfaces; somehow a lie is refracted and shattered, and a truth is there. An epiphany gives you something to take away forever." (Tony Conrad in The Wire issue 255)

Press clips:

"This is not easy-listening music; in fact, very little about this release is easy to come to terms with - it is erratic, unsettling and more than a little frightening in its confrontational intensity. But it is nevertheless a monumental piece of modulated feedback set into sonic sculpture that makes no excuses for its avant-garde obscurity and absolute lack of mainstream appeal." ... "Its creators may be certifiably insane, but they know how to wrench every last nuance out of each tortured, snarling sample before chaining it into place with discordant, unexpected sequencing." (Connexion Bizarre)

"The tracks are brilliant in sound and it makes a Class-A amplifier struggle: Impressively layered sound-collages and noisescapes. And it’s all just a sample from "hundreds of hours of work and experiments". Something like the Merzbox or the TG24 would have been an idea also, though it remains to be seen whether all material is as magickal as these chosen few." (Gothtronic)

"The sounds on offer range from ferocious noise barrages to Venetian Snares-style glitchcore, hard drive abuse and cut-up sample salads, with a cold, hard electronic sensibility as a unifying factor. It’s an interestingly varied collection, with highlights including the percussive assault of ‘Spider March’, the shrieking, abrasive frequencies of ‘Screamers’ the hypnotic, looped sound collage of ‘Valo’ and the soaring power elecronics of ‘La-Bas 2004’, the live track which closes the collection. A lot of tracks are mere fragments of a minute or so, though, and overall this is a frustratingly brief glimpse into the work of Rajapïnta, of which it is claimed that hundreds of hours exist, which makes me wonder what strange new realms of sound await discovery within that vast, unheard hinterland." (Judas Kiss)

"Rajapinta doesn’t opt for the true all out wall of noise, but rather make a sharp combination of floating samples, letting them bounce up and down the scale, thus creating quite a lively set of music. Plus it’s not all noise that rings around here. They know how to pull back and put on a softer tune. Heavy duty musique concrete, turntable madness and enough computer plug ins to create a hard disk crash, it all kind of makes great sense here." (Vital Weekly)

“The disc contains 14 tracks of different length, all faithful to a cold and clinic approach to minimal, distorted and uncompromising electronics. There is enough variety of style between them to assure an interesting listening experience: extreme noise alternates to creepy ambient, power-electronics shifts into pulsating rhythms, walls of industrial frequencies move into hypnotic mantras of distortion.” (Filth Forge)

"For sure some [tracks] sound as sound experiments in the vein of the Boyd Rice/Frank Tovey collaborations, but they haven’t the rhythmical construction of Easy listening for the hard of hearing and for this reason they could sound as ’sounds on the wild’. Tracks like Ion flux or Streched qi do have some kind of structure even if they are experimental tunes but most of them sounds like rolling sound pebbles which form a torrent of sound." (Chain DLK)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 July, 2007.

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