{"title":"Bd1982","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"distance-vision","title":"Distance Vision","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe at Diskotopia are extremely proud to officially kick-start our 10th anniversary year with an exciting new LP from label co-founder BD1982. Distance Vision is Brian Durr's most realized project from conception to completion, a sonorous work that fully encapsulates decades of listening, learning, and experimenting with disparate genres, instrumentation, and production techniques.\nInspired by the varying global cultural beliefs on life, death, and reincarnation visited in Colin Wilson's 1971 book The Occult: A History, Distance Vision is a spiritually contemplative album that marks quite a sonic departure from the tribalist warehouse soul of Durr's key releases to date. BD1982's signature rhythmic sensibilities are still an important feature — thanks in part to maintaining an MPC-centered workflow — but with this release, Durr has incorporated more original vocals and live instrumentation, including zither-family kantele and psaltery.\nThe result is a carefully crafted sound of greater emotional depth and scope; psychedelic atmospherics of ethereal wave and shoegaze clash with industrial and classic-dub-reggae textures, all spread across a substructure of skewed proto-techno and machine-funk pulses.\nThis is by far the best and most complete project that BD1982 has yet to release. With its cerebral and palindromic narrative, it's an album that exists out of a specific time or place; and although difficult to liken to any specific single release, it will appeal to fans of Arthur Russell, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, A.R. Kane, Rainer Veil, Forest Swords, Jay Glass Dubs, and Young Echo alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diskotopia","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50394649559371,"sku":"2056063","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_61be325b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726445470"},{"product_id":"initiation-insight","title":"Initiation Insight","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiskotopia is ecstatic to launch our 11th year with a bombastic new LP from label co-founder BD1982. Initiation Insight follows 2021's seminal Distance Vision LP - which garnered inclusion in Bandcamp's Best Electronic Music, JunoDaily's Best New Albums, and coverage in The Wire, RA, and Louder Than War - surveying the previously-plotted sonic ley lines and expanding upon them in drastically robust and kaleidoscopic directions.\n \nMusically, the tracks across Initiation Insight have been composed with an ear towards ritualistic structures, with the album's themes touching upon spirituality, hermetic philosophy, dreams, and human evolution in the face of impending natural destruction.\n \nOn this release, BD1982 favors stylistically nomadic production and a drive for emotion over genre constraints to explore further depths of songwriting and structures not yet heard in his previous material. Tribal-informed industrial and molten-electro styles coalesce with both future-facing and ancient-rooted textures – spread across an underlying current of soundsystem-savvy sonics.\n \nInitiation Insight proves to be another major step in the evolution of BD1982's sound, a caustic yet covalent natural mutation that will appeal to fans of Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, PJ Harvey, Cabaret Voltaire, Samhain, and Tricky alike.\n \nMastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound.\nAvailable as a limited-edition cassette.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diskotopia","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50394653229387,"sku":"2056076","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_447dad72_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726445485"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/bd1982.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}