Includes insert zine with info and photos
Estupendo Blas Finger , Monki, Walter Zenker, Martin Roveda
Tomas Buron Cromosomas Memoria, Compañero Asma,
Tomas Nochteff , Z / L , Objeto amarelo , Monga
Includes unlimited streaming of Priusdiscos vol 02
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Prius Discos was originally created to be the self-publishing platform for
the post-rock group Las Cosas. After a decade of non-stop discographic
production, it has developed into an independent expression channel for
a significant part of the fertile Buenos Aires music scene. Far from the
aesthetic patterns promoted by the decayed local music industry, their
unorthodox catalogue documents a varied scope of the so called
«experimental music». Prius is a bet on formal experimentation, as well
a curatorial project dedicated to the particular reception of the main local
underground streams in current popular music. Their albums display
soundscapes that refer to abstract electronic music, concrete music,
futurist rock, psychedelia, free improvisation, krautrock introduced
innovations, dub recording techniques, etc.
Within a context of unstable socio-economic conditions, imposed by
peripheral capitalism, the existence of Prius is a real miracle. It thrives in
defiance of the grief and apathy that permeates life, in societies that are
eager to buy shallow cultural products, designed in large corporate
marketing departments.
More than just an independent record label, Prius Discos is a place of
resistance against the automatization of perception, a trench from where
the universal attempt to «abandon ourselves to the voluntary dream
called the artistic creation» (J. L. Borges) is expressed.
Concebido en sus inicios como plataforma de autoedición de los discos del grupo de
post-rock Las Cosas, Prius Discos se ha convertido, luego de más de una década de
incesante producción discográfica, en un canal de expresión independiente de buena parte
de la fértil escena musical de Buenos Aires. Distante de los patrones estéticos promovidos
por la decadente industria vernácula de la música, el catálogo heterodoxo del sello se
propone documentar el multiforme ámbito de la llamada «música experimental». Una
apuesta por la experimentación formal que es, a la vez, un proyecto curatorial atento a la
singular recepción local de las principales corrientes subterráneas de la música popular
contemporánea. Los discos editados por Prius exhiben paisajes sonoros que se referencian
en la electrónica abstracta, la música concreta, el rock futurista, la psicodelia, la
improvisación libre, las innovaciones introducidas por el krautrock, las técnicas de
grabación del dub, etc.
En el contexto de las precarias condiciones materiales impuestas por el capitalismo
periférico latinoamericano, la existencia de Prius Discos constituye un verdadero milagro,
un desafío al desconsuelo y la abulia que permean la vida de sociedades cada vez más
ávidas de consumir productos culturales diseñados por los departamentos de marketing de
empresas trasnacionales.
Más que un sello de música independiente, Prius Discos es un espacio de resistencia contra
la automatización de la percepción, una trinchera desde la que se expresa la tentativa
universal de «abandonarnos a ese sueño voluntario que se llama la creación artística»
(J.L.Borges).
Martin hendler aka Dj Pe Lut
Selecta y producción : Walter Zenker
Masterizacion : Leandro Peirano
Gráfica : Tomas Spicolli
Traducción : Nayla Vaggiano
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