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Macrocorpse – 2021-2024

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A1: MYR
A2: LIIOI
A3: KDAK
A4: WRM
B1: NEKR
B2: HIH
B3: VLOJ
B4: PYN

MICROCORPS, Alexander Tucker's mutant techno alter ego, presents "Macrocorpse – 2021-2024", a collection of eight tracks that stray into a mutated space where techno-based composition inhabits the same zone as microsound time scales, drone and noise. Regular Tapeworm collaborator Savage Pencil lends his warped graphic visions to the cover artwork.

“I’ve always admired The Tapeworm from afar,” explains Tucker. “I’d amassed all these tracks, some of which I’d forgotten even existed until the label asked me to produce a tape. Each track is made with a specific system I had set up on the modular rig. I’d have all these processes feeding back into each other creating these dense fragmented bangers.”

Across the album, machine technology sits next to Tucker’s own voice, processed through electronics and granular sampling. Vocals are pitched beyond recognition and delivered in a wordless constructed language that attempts to create its own alien landscapes. Tucker’s aim is for each track to set a balance between structure and disrupting processes that feed off one another, where core rhythmic elements rub up against fried textures that fold in and out of each track. Always keen to marry electronic systems and acoustic instruments Tucker also employs cello layers which are resampled into sonic drone debris.

He expands "I often want to have my cake and eat it with these tracks. My idea was is to place my love of experimental techno, drone, music concréte and composition into each piece, where all these elements can weave through each other and produce a hybrid area."

Tucker is joined on final track PYN by Luke J Murray (Nonexistent, Stonecirclesampler, Liquid DnB-like Ambient Grime 2) adding his gauzy drones and electronic drift.

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releases May 10, 2024

Written, recorded and mixed by Alexander Tucker at Liquid Window Studios, Walthamstow, London, between 2021 and 2024. AT: modular, electronics, cello and voice. Luke J Murray: electronics on B4. Mastered by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering.

Illustration – SavX.

TTW#168

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