{"product_id":"hallucinator-landlocked-2xlp-chain-reaction-98-99","title":"Hallucinator - Landlocked 2xLP (Chain Reaction 98-99) (Pre-order)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3652486283\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER --- AVAILABLE MID-LATE AUGUST --- \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rubadub.co.uk\/products\/landlocked\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eALL CLIPS\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePersonal fave Chain Reaction. Transcends mere Dub Techno. Speak the name Hallucinator in the same breath as other greats (and RIYL): Coil, Muslimgauze, Autechre. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI've listened to Landlocked countless times in the last 20+ years. It \u003cspan class=\"im\"\u003ealways sounds completely fresh and never ceases to blow my mind. Truly timeless shit here. The gods at Numbers have really delivered. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled onto one vinyl album for the first time, \u003cstrong\u003eLandlocked\u003c\/strong\u003e (Numbers, 2026) presents Hallucinator’s 1999 debut album originally released under Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald’s label Chain Reaction. Writing much surrounding the culture of what would be later considered ‘Dub Techno’ and its’ primary distribution center, Hard Wax, leads one down roads of shifting primary sources and decades old overheard smoke break recollections. Maybe brevity primes the listener to the paralinguistic to approach the sound on its terms; focusing on how things are uttered and not what. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis theory will remain unconfirmed. Hallucinator original press release left us with three or so gestures to consider over the years since:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A new act on \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCHAIN REACTION\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e”s distinct productional thesis. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHALLUCINATOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e are 3 people from he UK\/London and this their first release ever- that’s all what the artists want to let us know…. This record is dedidacted to the  memory of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Lawrence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e!”  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first gesture is one of personnel. Since ’99, we’ve gotten to learn a bit more about the artists behind the \u003cstrong\u003eHallucinator\u003c\/strong\u003e project. All London-based, all writers, composers, and sound-designers— \u003cstrong\u003eAnna Piva, Edward George, Trevor Mathison\u003c\/strong\u003e. These three seem to flow between parameters as aesthetic tactic and tacit structure to the work itself. For example, other collaborative shapes have come from this lineup including Flow Motion (Piva, George and Mathison) as well as the now defunct Black Audio Film Collective of which George and Mathison are founding members. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second gesture is in the second line of the previous press release, “\u003cem\u003edistinct productional thesis\u003c\/em\u003e.” Much of\u003cstrong\u003e Landlocked\u003c\/strong\u003e’s affect and sequencing seems to suggest an emotional study of entropy at the level of sediment. Rhythms play with space and capacity through polyvalence. The production chose subtractive vertigo, often switching and bringing back in elements that vanished from the track 6 minutes ago. Dubbing out so much of a track, one begins to associate sound akin to memories held in the experience of running your hand across a concrete block as a child. Felt (re)memberance in lieu of narrative tale. Using textures that flicker between colour and percussion, Hallucinator’s 12-tracker of loudspeaker perception music might be a mediation on the psychic wake of the Cold War. Intermittent strata of ambience and groove convects an active margin rifting event underneath a scorched geology of power in Western Europe. Again, this is all grapevine hearsay. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut it’s silence that voices the third gesture. The album’s sparse application of the written word touches on the ennui paradox of being landlocked on an island. Stuck. Trapped in the psychosis of occidental hypercentricism. A looping silence of Black British tragedy: “to the memory of Stephen Lawrence”. 18 year-old Lawrence was stabbed to death at a bus stop in southeast London by six white men in 1993. The rift of grief and implicit reiteration of modern subordination left by this hate act went legally silent for almost two decades until Lawrence’s killers were ultimately sentenced to virtually life in jail in 2012. Only six years removed at the time of Hallucinator’s initial invocation of rememory, the mind-numbing accretion of what Black Studies Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva might call “unpayable debt”, finds demonic ground across \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandlocked\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e forming an aural sense of what continues to be refused. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album ventures through spaces of overactive non-happenings: \u003cstrong\u003e‘Red Angel’’\u003c\/strong\u003es factory floor dub flashes between smokestack and jungle visions, or the halfway mark’s stilted breath of \u003cstrong\u003e‘Dusk’ \u003c\/strong\u003elending its mood to the sort of sedated dreams built from daily life under colony rule for instance. That linked rhythm links us back to our linked fates across Black and Brown folk is real, thus the syncopated signals through this work behave on the level of transnational radiotelegraphy, sounding out its windswept tension of a body negotiating a meat-grinder schema of linear production and wage for others to know that unspeakable thing can be broadcast in every drum tongue. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the silence continues to reverb, we return to the sort of meaning-making that cannot be told but felt. Soothing to some, disturbing to others. \u003cstrong\u003eLandlocked\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Rorschach test for a crumbled empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diskono Records NYC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46913531871431,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/9322\/2343\/files\/Hallucinator-Landlocked-SEP18.jpg?v=1785220677","url":"https:\/\/diskono.com\/products\/hallucinator-landlocked-2xlp-chain-reaction-98-99","provider":"Diskono Records NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}