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The fifteen songs of 'Incursio' build on Napolian's first EP for Software, Rejoice, released at age nineteen and his ongoing work and experiences as part of The Renaissance Music Group alongside Dro Carey and labelmates Tariq and Garfield. At its core, 'Incursio' is an instrumental beats record. What the album isn't though is an egg hunt - no break record samples, no dust, no crates. 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Though 'Arcology' was conceived in a similar improvisational womb as Ryan McRyhew's debut, the new album moves subtly from free-form footworkouts of 'Death After Life' with an expanded palette vibrating brightly with melodic deployment. 'Curaga' and 'Exo-Memory' triumph over established 303 \/ 808 interplay with uplifting melodies - ear-worms from outer space; 'Bronze' pumps dub-tectonics within a minimalist reduction of 'Death After Life's modus operandi. Lighter than most of McRyhew's output, album interludes 'Low-Life', 'VR-Urge' and the finale, 'Xeno', beam satellite ballads through alien atmospheres.2LP -  Gatefold jacket with matte finish, vinyl cut at 33 rpm, mastered by Andreas (LUPO) Lubich at Calyx Mastering house in Berlin, DE.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Software Recording Co.","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471031603531,"sku":"398169","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/435abbc7-44c8-4a11-a8cb-f17977ea6323_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727388735"},{"product_id":"no-no","title":"No No","description":"\u003cp\u003eClear vinyl comes with download with bonus track 'I Comb My Hair'. Baltimore's Co La, the creative cloak for Matt Papich, fabricates a club music environment where solidarity and psychosis enmesh. Emerging from the humid undergrowth of 2013's Moody Coup, 'No No' gathers tracks built during the northeastern deep freeze of 2014: sonically these songs are clear and uninsulated: cracking. 'No No' is a reflection of Papich's interest in the never ending psycho-drama that is the American news cycle (f5 syndrome), blanketed with a style of auditory \/ performative humor that operates as a coping strategy, a modifier for an otherwise oblique sonic world. Where Co La's past work focused on rendering impressions of physical spaces, designs and objects into broad musical forms, Papich now turns his interest inward, investigating the sensual and emotional aspects of terrestrial life. No No is inscribed with content - it points to basic fears \/ desires and scrambles them, creating an oddly emotional and alien dimension. Simple inversion is a focal point of 'No No'. Club culture categorically offers an escape from the real world for revelers. Co La, a seminal player in Baltimore's experimental club environment, (Club Undo), regularly abstracts the party into intellectually confrontational encounters, be it a rifle scope aimed directly on his forehead or building temporary soundsystems out of zipcars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Software Recording Co.","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471059390795,"sku":"392989","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e002018e-3c51-4aec-b802-cb93bc078484_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727389962"},{"product_id":"the-baltika-years","title":"The Baltika Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e​Ben Zimmerman's 'The Baltika Years' is a collection of recordings created between 1992 and 2002 mostly using a Tandy DeskMate. When Ben solicited the recordings to Software in 2013, we were taken aback by how personal the music felt considering the palette used. It was like reading an abstract diary. The clues into Ben's world are so stark and strange that they feel like monuments. Reducing Zimmerman's prolific output down to four album sides was a challenge. Much like the myth of the process-oriented painter in his prime, you get the sense that Zimmerman is subconsciously actualizing an artistic scenario that he may or may not be privy to. When 'The Baltika Years' is absorbed as a canon of work, a super-effect emerges which bonds all of his output. This is somewhat represented in the way we assembled the anthology, focusing on certain stylistic epochs that Zimmerman moved through over a decade of solitary experimenting and obsessing. In many ways, The Baltika Years embodies the spirit of Software. It articulates a belief that idiosyncrasy is inevitable, and that human affect and technology are linked. One helps the other express something mysterious about the world. Via limiting himself to one very specific instrument, Ben realized his own style — a monochromatic computer music that glows with the intimacy found in life's barely audible sentiments, curios, and details. 2LP with matte finish and custom inner sleeves,    limited run of 750.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Software Recording Co.","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471065911627,"sku":"389825","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5f9653d5-a9af-4672-8ddc-c39230ef0c17_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727390195"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/software-recording-co.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}