Bogdan Raczynski - You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever [LP]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: DISC31
Barcode: 5056614797626
Release Date: 18 Oct 2024
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 A collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo-fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping-pong percussion. Each piece is short and to thepoint, a record of perfect miniatures. Whilst this description may sound utopian, the album is conceived around themes of late stage capitalist brutality, hyper consumerism, online doom and alogorhithmic apocalypse. Beauty in the face of planetary collapse and 24/7 livestreamed genocide.
 Rumoured to have been discovered by Aphex Twin sleeping on a park bench in Tokyo, Raczynski first appeared on the scene in 1999 with three albums in that year alone. He went on to explore hallucinatory, bassbin-rattling IDM, outsider junglism and traditional Polish folk music amongst other paths, collaborated with Björk, produced a soundtrack for a PlayStation game, and remixed the likes of Autechre, Jonsi and CLIPPING.
 In 2019, Disciples began looking after his Rephlex era catalogue, putting together the ‘Rave 'Till You Cry’ compilation of unreleased gold from the vaults and reissuing his classic ‘Samurai Math Beats’ LP. His last studio album, ‘ADDLE’, came out on Planet Mu in 2022.
 “Bogdan was a massive inspiration for some of my tracks on the ‘Drukqs’ album, the fact he was doing it all on a shit PC tracker… totally amazing. This was before 99.9 percent of people used the computer for everything. His records are so underrated.” - Aphex Twin
 CD in four-panel card wallet.
 Black vinyl LP in printed sleeve with white paper inner.

Tracklisting
gearee
newdiv
fairalign
coughyspns
bangsaft
djstus
hundrecision
zownthram
visionsrevisions
bowgh
fallybli
faq
yewt
shttwobe
sicksicksicks
deweyedair
rew
gauq