Various Artists - In Trux We Pux 01

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FD051
Barcode: 0725765590527
Release Date: 10 Jun 22
Genre: Electronic/Experimental/Abstract

140g Black vinyl LP – Printed inner sleeve - Sealed plastic sleeve

In Trux We Pux is an editorial project organized by the Porto based label and collective Favela Discos. Focusing on the city’s thriving experimental and improvised music scene, it sets out to portrait in a series of four volumes some of the characteristic sounds and collaborative practices that have been in development in Porto during the last few years.

In Trux We Pux 01, the first record of the collection, is focused on the electronic side of the eclectic but characteristic experimental and improvised scene in Porto, and contains a selection of 23 musicians that have been developing their own take on whatever niche genre they dwell in. Among the list of musicians are Filipe Silva (HHY & The Macumbas), Crónica Electrónica’s heads @c, ocp, coletivo vandalismo and several others that populate a thriving scene that spans a wide gamut of sounds, from delicate to abrasive.

As the tracks themselves, the different approaches to composition and production add to this compilation’s schizophrenia. The first side of the record offers us a spacious and abstract scenery, starting with a collage of field recordings, banjos, and fans, narrated by google translate’s voice. The following two tracks flow along the granular tide of ambient spaces and atmospheres slowing down a bit before the second side turns around 180º and heads towards more rhythmic fields.

Coletivo vandalismo & querido lider present us with their exploration of half balearic, half german-synth-music pulsing away at the beat of broken down dancehallish drums and reggae breaks. Challenger & Lorr No’s track is a trainwreck heading down a break driven jungle that lead us to the album’s closing arguments: MOSCXS’ sludged beat goth-step exploration around the poem “Poema Agreste” by Glória de Sant’Anna.

NEWS/PRESS

Rimas e Batidas - Oficina Radiofónica #45 - Album review by Rui Miguel Abreu
” The distant voices that, initially, are vaguely perceived above the abrasive base created by Arbusto de Bayas and that later seem clearer, as if it were capturing some transmission help, right after opening this trip, creating a feeling of some discomfort and suffocation that both the piece by @c with Well and that by ocp & Patches only reinforce with their deep drones and imbued with mystery.

In the end, one is left with the feeling of having walked through the different rooms of the same building where things are happening, where people come and go, where we get lost and we feel, after all, how strange cities can be, especially when we feel trapped inside them.” [translated from portuguese]

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Threshold Magazine – press article
https://www.thresholdmagazine.pt/2020/10/favela-discos-documenta-cenario-da.html

A Cabine – press article
https://acabine.pt/2020/10/favela-discos-documenta-musica-experimental-improvisada-porto-in-trux-we-pux/

Plaka Porto – press article
https://plaka.porto.pt/pt/criatorio/2019/in-trux-we-pux-recolha-fonografica-de-musica-experimental-e-improvisada-no-porto-divisao-nomada/

RADIO
WFMU – Jack Mello – ‘B1. Coletivo Vandalismo & Querido Lider – XII’
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/111199

Track-list:
A1. Arbusto De Bayas - El Niño En El Utero Responde
A2. @c & Well - 129 / Steps
A3. ocp & Patches - Smoke Room
B1. Coletivo Vandalismo & Querido Lider - XII
B2. Challenger & Lorr No - Demon Break