Download the whole show featuring my mix, a live set by Ontal and a selection from Combat-Boss Stormfield, over on the Combat Recordings website here.

Tracklist for my mix as follows:

01 – RE: – Orientalism as a Humanism – Constellation
02 – Greymachine – We are All Fucking Liars (Version) – Hydra Head
03 – Cezary Gapik – #0473 (Tremor) – White Box
04 – Chasing Voices – Acidbathory – Preserved Instincts
05 – The Haxan Cloak – The Growing – Aurora Borealis
06 – Kangding Ray – Fall (Ben Frost Demolition) – Raster Noton
07 – Emptyset – Tangent – Subtext
08 – Mika Vainio – Vandals – Raster Noton
09 – NHK – Mogra – Important
10 – Mr Oizo – 1$44 – F Communications
 

“Secret Thirteen Mix 007” is a precise musical compilation which includes lasting works from the early 70′s academic sound explorers and present innovators.

The author of the mix is a Polish performer of drone, abstract and experimental music Cezary Gapik (also known as CEZAR). Affected of music creation in 1980 while being an animator of local punk rock bands, he studied the evolution of computer made music and right now he has released more than 30 individual works. Thus he assuredly stands among the best Eastern European academic musicians. Cezary also participates in such bands as QG/GQ and Sub Spa where he expands his productivity and creativeness.

“Secret Thirteen Mix 007” is a thrilling musical selection which consists of 13 surprising creations and mirrors the main principles of Cezary creation. The basis of the mix stands on the constantly floating static atmospheres whose intensity of curves is balanced between minimalism, drone and noise styles. The whole background is full of astonishing experimental textures, distorted effects and variable rustles which are blended into the upper layers. From time to time suddenly appearing viscous strokes regenerate into the full rhythmical structures thus vitalizing the wholeness. This is a mature selection because of the rich palette of chosen music without worrying about style mixing errors and nowadays trends.

“Secret Thirteen Mix 007” is like a Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s drawing “Dada Portrait of Berenice Abbott” which evokes chimeras from the subconsciousness and a perishing feeling that something turbulent will happen.

Photography by Wojciech Bartecki.

Important: The brand new limited Cezary Gapik’s album “The Sum Of Disappearing Sounds” (CD/Download) is coming on Karlrecords on March, 2012.

Tracklist:

01. Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem (excerpt) [2011, Important Records] [Composed in 1973 for ARP synthesizer]
02. Main – Firmament XIV [1996, Beggars Banquet]
03. Sub Spa – 009 [2011, 333 Records]
04. Mick Harris – Do One [2000, Hed... Nod]
05. James Plotkin – Whirl [1996, Discreet/Indiscreet] [Created 1993-1996]
06. The Curse Of The Golden Vampire – Anti-Matter [1998, Eat Your Heart Out]
07. Porter Ricks – Polytoxic 1 [1999, Force Inc. Music Works]
08. Cezary Gapik – The Gradual Loss Of Elasticity [#0529] [2012, Karlrecords]
09. This Heat – Horizontal Hold (from Peel Session) [1996, These Records] [originally created in 1977]
10. Jazzkammer – Sound Of Music (excerpt) [2002, [OHM] Records]
11. Zbigniew Karkowski – Untitled (excerpt) (from album ‘Elasticity Of Time’) [2007, Raw Special Effects]
12. Jim Haynes – : (excerpt) [2009, Intransitive Recordings]
13. Eliane Radigue – Onward 19 (excerpt) [2009, Important Records][Composed in 1970]

Be sure to check out Mike Jedlicka – Fleeting Desolation

Tracklist:

1. Nils Frahm – More
2. Cezary Gapik – #0458 [Drowsiness]
3. BJ Nilsen – Untitled
4. On Fell – Untitled
5. Deaf Center – Close Forever Watching
6. Simon Scott – Gamma
7. Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer – Blanketing
8. Field Rotation – Acoustic Tale 1 (Introduction)
9. Jacaszek – Windhover
10. Belong – Come See
11. Kreng – Karcist
12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Requiem For The Static King Part One
13. Tim Hecker – In The Fog II
14. Lawrence English – January 30 –Grey Lunar Sea
15. Isan – Eastside (Neben Mix)
16. Matthew Cooper And Peter Broderick – I Am Darkness, I Am Light
17. Leyland Kirby – No Longer Distance Than Death
18. Clams Casino – All I Need
19. Grouper – Moon Is Sharp
20. Tiago Sousa – Untitled

total time – 1:42:50

[ S T R E A M ] | [ D O W N L O A D ] | [ P O D C A S T ] | [ i T U N E S ]

”CEZARY GAPIK ist im Vergleich zu seinem Labelkollegen afarOne ein alter Hase. Der 1963 in Czestochowa geborene Do-It-Yourselfer in Sachen Soundart fand nach einer Postpunksozialisation seine eigene Richtung, als er die Klangwelten von Mick Harris und Dan Burke mit denen von Feldman, La Monte Young, Radigue oder Niblock verschmolz. Nach vier Dutzend Ausgaben seiner ‘Sound Sketchbooks’ im Selbstverlag zieht er mit ‘The Sum Of Disappearing Sounds’ (KR 008) eine Zwischenbilanz seines ‘ambient depressionism’. Zur Klangerzeugung dienen Laptop, Soundprozessoren, E-Gitarre und Klavier, jeweils präpariert, Vibratoren, Geigenbogen, Glas, Papier und Metal. So entstanden vier dröhnminima­listisch summende Langwellenmantras, die dabei in sich vibrieren, zirpen und beben. Vier Oms, die die Kunst des tiefen und langen Atems üben. Der Sound von ‘Uncertainty’ schwingt wie eine Glasharmonika im Ohr. Nada Brahma, alles beginnt mit einer Urschwingung. ‘The Gradual Loss Of Elasticity’ surrt wie ein Dynamo und erstarrt dabei zu einer stehenden Welle. Die Basis von Allem, der Zwang hinter Allem. Die Dynamik hier wird rauer und stürmischer, industrialer, wenn man so will. Aber beruhigt sich wieder. ‘Idiomat’ scheint in seiner brummigen Motorik dem Stand der Din­ge zu entsprechen, mit leichten Schwankungen und Fieberschüben ein undramatisch idiotisches Immersoweiter. Bassig knurrend versenkt ‘Still, No Beginning, and ….. Without End’ einen zuletzt in eine Art Beckettsche endlose Anfangslosigkeit, ein unaufhörliches Aufhören. Heißt das: Nur wenn es still würde, könnten wir endlich etwas hören? Ich bin etwas verwirrt, ich bin wohl zu bedröhnt.” – Bad Alchemy Magazin [BA 72 rbd]
 
Cezary Gapik – The Sum Of Disappearing Sounds (CD sampler) by Cezary Gapik
 

”The Sum Of Disappearing Sounds”  by Cezary Gapik

available now:

CD, limited edition of 222 handnumbered items

… send an email to: contact@karlrecords.net

€ 15.- incl worldwide shipping.

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released 02 March 2012

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Label – Karl Records | www.karlrecords.net
Catalog# – KR 008
Mastered By – Bartłomiej Kuźniak / Studio 333
Painting [Cover Art] – Suse Kipp | www.susekipp.de
Design – Kaidoh
Photography [Cover] – Andrej Von Sallwitz

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2011: No Mercy!

mixed by Cezary Gapik

total time 1:24:00

Tracklist:

1. Jim O’Rourke & Christoph Heemann – #2
2. Merzbow – The Spirit Indulges In The Sadness
3. Scorn – Shake Hands
4. Death Grips – Guillotine
5. Brutal Truth – Control Room
6. Cezary Gapik – #0473 [Tremor]
7. Daniel Menche – Feral One
8. Sub Spa – 010

Thank you to all of the artists and labels featured, lots of quality releases on wax this year!!

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Tracklist:

1. Nils Frahm – More
2. Cezary Gapik – #0458 [Drowsiness]
3. BJ Nilsen – Untitled
4. On Fell – Untitled
5. Deaf Center – Close Forever Watching
6. Simon Scott – Gamma
7. Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer – Blanketing
8. Field Rotation – Acoustic Tale 1 (Introduction)
9. Jacaszek – Windhover
10. Belong – Come See
11. Kreng – Karcist
12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Requiem For The Static King Part One
13. Tim Hecker – In The Fog II
14. Lawrence English – January 30 –Grey Lunar Sea
15. Isan – Eastside (Neben Mix)
16. Matthew Cooper And Peter Broderick – I Am Darkness, I Am Light
17. Leyland Kirby – No Longer Distance Than Death
18. Clams Casino – All I Need
19. Grouper – Moon Is Sharp
20. Tiago Sousa – Untitled

photo by Bartłomiej Kuźniak

Cezary Gapik (also known as CEZAR) is a Polish performer of drone, abstract and experimental music. Affected of music creation in 1980 while being an animator of local punk rock bands, he studied the evolution of computer made music and right now he has released more than 30 individual works and assuredly stands among the Eastern European academic musicians. Cezary also participates in such bands as QG/GQ and Sub Spa where he expands his productivity and creativeness.

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“Contrast I” is an LP album, released by White Box Records. Limited to 400 copies, this album had the first 100 copies on red vinyl. “Contrast I” consists of two contrasting compositions. In the first work #0473 [Tremor] power electronics intersects with drone above the glitched effects. Beginning with a static voltage noise and holding a tension for a while Cezary gradually transforms it into the sparkling ambience that covers the foundation of the whole work. It is a clever creation where the shifting sound trajectory is being accurately developed thus showing musician’s concentration into the process of music making. The second work #0458 [Drowsiness] is an eclectic experiment with ethereal sound textures. Imperceptibly evolving constant atmosphere with the fluid layers, he gives vibrancy for creation. After the emotionally balanced culmination, Cezary masterfully returns to the singularity of isolated sound. With a help of gentle resonance and esoteric inconstant, reversed melodies, the wholeness of this album injects the hallucination into listeners’ minds.

painting by Suse Kipp

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“Vanishing” is an EP, released by Entropy Records, that consists of two lethargic compositions. The first work #0476 [Vanishing] is full of abstract ambient sounds which float into higher dimensional space. After monotonic blend into prolific wholeness, sublime sounding evokes cathedral feeling. By progressively absorbing sine curves, Cezary constructs synthetic sound plenitude. Subtle disharmonized rotational surroundings prove his musical maturity. The second work #0503 [Barrier] is full of micro processing intellectual experimental creation. The whole is filled with ingenuity – from clever looped ticks to whirling keen atmospheres. Suddenly appearing cosmic effects cause cinematographic sound visions and by exploring mesmerizing sounding variations Cezary creates something magnificent.

Cezary creates this skillfully shaped music with deformation of latent styles which leads to the visionary matrix of chaotic tones. He is an artist whose production needs to be explored and decoded.

painting by Patricia Oblack

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Reviews by Justinas Mikulskis / Secret Thirteen | 11.12.2011

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