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Collaborating with other talented musicians such as Gaussian Curve and Joseph Shabason, he constantly explores new sonic territories. Whether performing live or producing in the studio, Arp's passion for experimentation shines through in every note.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pulsars-e-quasars","title":"Pulsars e Quasars","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexis Georgopoulos aka Arp has always approached recordings with a conceptual bent. Imbued with an expansive sense of music history, having written for i-D, V, ANP Quarterly, BOMB, Fader, and Vice - he has a penchant for doing the unexpected and refusing to take part in the fleeting pop trends of the given day in favor of pursuing a more adventurous trajectory. As the title infers, there is a 'cosmic' quality to 'Pulsars e Quasars' - in a sense, it draws a link to his earlier Cosmic Synth work, albeit reclaiming and redefining it in a Pop songwriting context. Opener 'Suns' sets the tone. And it glows. A bracing current of electricity, it's a slate-cleaner, an improvised transmission capturing the group sound of this temporary ensemble in motion. 'Pulsars e Quasars', the title-track and mini-album's first single, is a lysergic rush, a kaleidoscopic bite of psychedelic Anglophile pop. Settling into his singing voice, his voice finds a comfortable spot between the narcotic resplendence of George Harrison and the delicacy of Broadcast's Trish Keenan. The music, meanwhile, opens swathed in phased guitars before building into a prismatic, melodic fuzzed out mass. A tune that might just become a make-out classic. 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Reaching across genres — colliding modern composition with post-pop structures, dub techniques and three-dimensional geometries — Georgopoulos creates a delirious mélange of sound, spellbinding in its range. Using forward-looking production techniques and an idiosyncratic instrumental palette — analog synthesizers, double bass, Fender Rhodes, electronic and acoustic drums, flute, harmonizers and tape delay — Georgopoulos paints a topography of sound, hinting at an astonishing range of styles — 4th world tremors, vibey cosmic jazz, forward-looking 80s Japanese production, floating kosmische drum atmospherics. Like transmissions through a medium wave receiver, it moves, liquid like, in flow motion. A mutant offspring of diverse stylings, unlikely convergences, unfixed constellations, stretching ... into new mutations. 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Canny and time-bending, Georgopoulos sculpts angularities into fresh, alluring shapes, expanding and contracting song form into brain-teasing sound design. The sensation the music offers is almost rubbery; it makes you feel as if you could flex, bend and squeeze your body inside out – a vivid, deconstructed take on high-definition pop, avant-garde, and dance music forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50529799995723,"sku":"1158951","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dfe1e6cd-d6bc-4c25-848f-1697056a2c33_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728066770"},{"product_id":"drifts","title":"Drifts","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, \u003cem\u003eDrifts\u003c\/em\u003e draws you into its heightened sense of quiet, reveling in iridescent, tranquilized vapors — one part ambient Classical, one part Club-adjacent ambience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePitched, reduced, sampled and re-sampled, the album’s glowing, elliptical abstractions — using piano, harp, strings \u0026amp; modular synthesizer — explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture of composition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrifts\u003c\/em\u003e represents for its maker a newfound interest in shadow and mystery, each track a shifting terrain, a collection of clues, a scene set in a larger story, the effect cumulative. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing collaborations with Patrick Belaga, Marilu Donovan (LEYA), and Takuma Watanabe, the album’s cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invites the listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Obscure Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53530889617739,"sku":"R6790-4845","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/MOM063.jpg?v=1759572409"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_b53da306_thumbnail_4096_dff4d4a0-bc2c-4305-bcc6-67ff51291ab6.jpg?v=1727384800","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/arp.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}