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Deface

by Marc Kate

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€^£^¥^ß Marc Kate has to be one of the most unique voices in ambient music, if only for his approach to its function. His voice is one that seeks to convince ambient music to openly converse with the politics of the present day. He creates a new way of interpreting what are, functionally, reactive expulsions of emotion, usually the sovereignty of punk music, through subtle drones, rich in sub-bass and unobtrusive but filled with the same kind of commentary that would find kinship among those members of a mosh pit. Favorite track: Deface IV.
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1.
Deface I 06:11
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Deface II 12:18
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Deface III 12:47
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Deface IV 06:55
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Deface V 09:21
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Deface VI 10:21
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Deface VII 19:56

about

A musical reaction to the current political moment, electronic musician Marc Kate steals the music of the ultra-right, and converts anthems of hate into shimmering spells of beauty.

Spending months scanning through the music of the extreme right, especially focusing on National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM), Kate has pulled their music from the web and used its aggressive sonics and hateful ideology as a palette for something beautiful and contemplative.

Extreme music’s unyielding ties to extreme politics are understandable, but unforgivable. During the current rise of racist, nationalist and fascist beliefs worldwide, the aesthetics of hate cannot go unchecked.

In the tradition of Negativland, Bob Ostertag, John Oswald and the glitch and microsound techniques of the late 1990s, Deface subverts its sources as series of elegiac, fragile drones, almost veering into the territory of New Age music.

These meditations on physical and musical violence use only the source material of NSBM and no additional sounds. Marc Kate’s purely plunderphonic compositions apply all manner of filtration and effects to render the music as barbless, extracting the harmonic material as spectral emanations from their misanthropic origins.

But Deface is not merely an inversion from barbaric bombast to pollyanna pretty, making an amusing novelty of the gesture. It is dolorous. It mourns. Kate’s reaction to this deeply troubling political moment resonates with a sense of loss, and reflects on the work that lies ahead if the culture is to move through and forward.

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released September 20, 2017

Artwork by Jonathan Solo.
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