{"title":"Group Zero","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"structures-and-light","title":"Structures And Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebut record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names). Using synthesizers and drum machines, 'Structures And Lights' glistens with subtle Euro sophistication - pairing cold-wave optimism alongside freaky and brutal tracks for the more open-minded DJs and dancefloors. Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of ‘Structures And Light’ is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio. With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music”. Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent. In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored. The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of ‘Pyramid of Light’ by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. “It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.” Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: “These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.” Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light’ reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle. This is music to go away from and travel to. “Here’s a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It’s made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication. Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms (‘The Fantasist’). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in ‘Pursuit’; a gentle kind of cold wave optimism. Night heals: there’s ‘pummelling repetition’ here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to ‘Pyramid of Light’s stark new-age burst. It’s a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touch Sensitive","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50496281411915,"sku":"1010271","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f86c5747-5bf0-450d-8147-cc0a5431ea21_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727719402"},{"product_id":"everyones-already-come-apart","title":"Everyones Already Come Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryone’s Already Come Apart\u003c\/i\u003e sees the return to Touch Sensitive of Group Zero, the solo project of Belfast-based musician, Cathal Cully. The Group Zero moniker has been an outlet for Cully to explore a loose experimentalism within electronic production whilst still feeding off the same diet of his post-punk roots: repetition, repetition, repetition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour years on from his previous outing for the label,\u003ci\u003e Everyone’s Already Come Apart \u003c\/i\u003eheralds a shift in trajectory - leaving behind the colder, industrial glaze and softening the angular edges to reveal warmer, psychedelic rhythms - hinting at heady optimism and playful escapism. These five tracks take us on a trip that both pushes and pulls. Moments of meditative stasis are clipped by propulsive 4\/4 grooves. Snatches of heavily treated vocals and keys further the unmapped journey. We find ourselves in the headspace of those beautiful off-kilter 3am dance floor moments - flickering bright lights arrest us from being lost in fog machine haze. Next, we're soundtracking the patina of those early-morning trails - pushing through nature’s wow and flutter - equally as psychedelic. The call and response pairing of cuts on either side of the record both adds to the wooze and eases the orientation. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touch Sensitive","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50505870639435,"sku":"1132744","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3e12acda-9ffb-42bc-accc-4fa4baa6eec2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727817399"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/group-zero.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}