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What Happens Next Only Depends On The State Of Affairs Now
Like a fading polaroid, memories are comforting lies we tell ourselves of an idealized past that never was. This album brings together some selected works created between 2016 and early 2024 that touch on this sentimentalism. Its retrofuturistic sound references the ‘80s, but doesn’t attempt to replicate that era exactly.
Fire With Fire
Part of Disquiet Junto Project #0555: A Simple Timer, a prompt to create a minimal composition that is minimal, only uses simple waveforms as voices, at most 5 voices, and uses no effects or post-processing.
Delyrical 3
Inspired by the death of Vangelis.
2600
sing me a song of
crimes we get away with
Sidran
What if “Nardis” was written in the bass clef?
Lemons May Stay
What if dubstep but nostalgic?
What if wubwub but in the ‘80s?
Didn't Make It
3:15am, you sit at a dive bar.
Keith's Fire
In memoriam Keith Flint.
Used To Be Simpler
What if FM synths but jazz?
What if synthwave but soft acoustic drums?
What if Disintegration but in 7/8?
Three Body
Inspired by multi-star systems like Alpha Centauri, and the book “Three-Body Problem” in particular.
Main Menu
This piece could easily belong in a ‘90s-style video game. In fact, the structure of “Main Menu” was specifically chosen with this use in mind. The tune was composed on the Dirtywave M8 Tracker, another vintage-inspired piece of tech. The B side is a remaster from my back catalog, a pair of analog Moog synthesizers dismantled and reassembled digitally with chiptune-like loop glitches.
Places: FM Ambient
This EP uses Polyend Medusa’s digital FM synth engine to channel a unique combination of nostalgia, yearning, and calm focus. Featuring a single synthesizer, “Places” presents a variety of sounds that aim to be neither retro nor futuristic. Instead, it hopes to present itself as timeless: an artifact from a gap year when the world stood still.
Late Night Coding
A subdued single heralding an ambient EP produced entirely using a single hardware digital FM synthesizer, the Polyend Medusa. The B side is a remaster from my back catalog.
The Last Circle of Hell - Ptolomea
Through friends I learned of “Cities and Memory” and a project they announced for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s Inferno to create a soundtrack for it. I decided to participate.
Westworld Scoring Competition
Spitfire Audio, a well-known British sample library creator, teamed up with the producers of Westworld organizing a competition to score a scene from Season 3 of the show. I entered, without success.
Another Attempt In Shared Meaning
Crashing stormy wailing pulse waves.
Hourglass
(Gravenhurst cover)
2499
Between the motion and the act falls the Shadow.
jwelt02
Efficiency burns you out.
The Detached Observer
Total banishment of self-reference.
303
Happy 303 Day!
Sunk Costs
Resistance to what is.
Passion/Obsession
Behind every successful trick is a period of near-constant failure.
Practical/Whimsical
Prudence is an oversold virtue.
You Catch It Breathing
Self-reflection goes beyond observation.
Grasping
The fact is, right now, you’re not special.
This Doesn't Mean Anything
Or does it?
BCIV
A study of bass in long exposures. A communion with emptiness in poignant tranquility.
Exploration/Exploitation
Even the optimal algorithm doesn’t guarantee a perfect outcome.
June (For Neil K.)
What doesn’t kill you…
Background Radiation
Consistently miserable.
Redshift
The distance between us is growing.
For Your Own Good
Overreact and overcompensate.
jwelt01
The long tail of the unknown.
Acrasine
Weakness, ambition, inner conflict.
Gross Underestimation
Measure twice, cut once.
Such Beautiful People
Get your ideas in order.
Gloom Filter In A# Minor
Do not cross them.
Phibonaccid
Tell no one.
Gordian
Follow the leader.
Vintage Is The New Hip
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Metafy
Ultimately, what is there?
Microbeats
Something is not quite right here.
recall
Released back in 2015 under Łukasz Langa’s given name, “recall” is spiritually the beginning of the RPLKTR project. It’s a carefully crafted ambient soundscape that rewards attention but does not require it.
Anomalies: Improvised Works 2007-2014
Ranging between laid-back coffee table jazz, powerful metal-inspired riffs and glacial ambient, this careful selection from seven years’ worth of solo piano improvisation recordings is a journey of contrasts.
Lifeline (36 floors mix)
After Duncan Patterson moved on from Anathema and later Antimatter, he formed a band called “Alternative 4”, a spiritual continuation of the Anathema album of the same name he mostly wrote. Since that album meant a lot to me in my teenage years, I was thrilled to be involved in the “Lifeline” remix.
Lethal Blow Soundtrack
In April 2013 I created the soundtrack for an indie game “Lethal Blow”, submitted for the Ludum Dare #26 competition.
Epitaph
In 2010 I met Mick Moss, the founder of the UK dark rock band Antimatter. I prepared a rework of “Epitaph”, a popular track of theirs for their anthology “Alternative Matter”.
Abandoner (Danse Macabre Mix)
I took part in a remix competition organized by KScope to remix the track “Abandoner”, from Steven Wilson’s first solo album “Insurgentes”. My remix won and got released on the “NSRGNTS RMXS” album, alongside members of King Crimson, TV On The Radio, and Engineers.