2013–2019 / GLOBAL HISTORY

Micro-scenes become audible

Streaming, Bandcamp, social networks and digital production let small languages sustain international audiences without depending on one capital.

FOREST, HI-TECH, PSYBASS, NEO-GOA, PSYTECH1 NODES5 TECHNOLOGIESDOSSIER GLOBAL-07

Forest, hi-tech, psybass, neo-Goa, psytech

The stylistic tree stops being linear. Goa returns as neo-Goa; forest and hi-tech take speed and sound design in different directions; psybass and psytech cross stage boundaries.

Abundance solves access and creates another problem: context, authorship and chronology are buried in feeds. A catalogue needs to reconnect files with people, places and sources.

Network nodes

Global online network

Technology in circulation

BandcampTOOL / MEDIUM
StreamingTOOL / MEDIUM
DAWTOOL / MEDIUM
Soft synthTOOL / MEDIUM
Social mediaTOOL / MEDIUM

Core sources

DROP 001 / NUMBERED EDITION / SIGNAL FIRST

The first drop is sealed.

A numbered run of objects made for the people who were there — and the ones who wish they had been. What is inside stays classified until the list opens. Signal subscribers get first access, before anyone else, and the run never comes back.

EDITION
Numbered, closes when it is gone
RUN
Small, hand-finished
ORIGIN
Portugal ↔ Aotearoa
STATUS

No spam. One transmission when it opens. Leave with one click.