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Modular Alliance

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Electronic music compilation from California Bay Area artists.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Modular Alliance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Wabi Sabi - Into Fog 04:38
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2.
Alphastare -Forward Into Oblivion 04:26
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3.
Malarki - Anihkari 04:32
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4.
KZZL - Resuscitation 03:35
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5.
Need for Storms - Oolith 04:33
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6.
Franck Martin - It Is Spinning Around Me 04:30
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7.
TanukiSpiderCat - Guided by Moonlight 04:28
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8.
Clark Harding - False Narrative 04:31
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Modular Alliance is a non-profit organization to the education of electronic music in all forms.
During Lock-Down of 2020 we asked our friends to contribute to this compilation.

Album Review by ahtö_léon:
-Wabisabi’s track starts out with very distant chordal drones like awakening to interstellar moons out your shuttles cabin. Bells and a timbral melody like floating comets whizzing by. Orchestral strings and piano open up the vast space like a warm light from the nearest star.
-Alphastare begins with a rhythmic trance of toms and into cymbals delayed with noise, The grind of another work day. The awakening voices to todays spiritual understanding, like a lost world or ancient wisdom trying to break the cycle of this fractured world.
-Malarki taunts with a haunting kick drum. A distant and faint sequence of what will become the back of your head about to explode with a karplus liquid fizzle upon the vacant floor. Trudging along patterns of our movements into the void of this desert of machine and grit. Soft, yet stone.
-KZZL echoing tones like some extraterrestrial trying to convey its message, yet being misunderstood. A calming yet marred melody soothes us while we’re still holding the self in a fetal position. Wanting warmth in the freezing cold. Tones that stretch out past our own perception. Time becomes a vague reality. Hoping the message will get translated before we expire.
Side B:
-Need for Storms: this side starts with a calming drone, like the emergence of a sacred call to arms or a prayer asking for the electronic dragon to unleash its might. Flurries of an echoing melody dancing amid the cloud studded afternoon sunlight, as a possible doom lingers. The calm beacons back to soothe as it closes. Maybe how we people lack our resolve to change the surface of our collective realities here on planet Earth. The rubbish planet. A harking call for peace amid the insidious amplitudes of neuroses of our time.
-Franck Martin: a random chaotic child like sequence forms. Punching tones floating around your head you try to catch, but you endlessly miss its grasp. You can’t help but dance to this hypnotic groove. Ever seen a flash mob of robots dancing in the streets? This sample and holds me. Nothing like letting the jam take hold. When that jam looks like you’re leaking coolant at an alarming rate. Lug nuts.
-Tanukispidercat- like trying to pronounce this name correctly, the track starts out with roundhouse kicks of bass drums to your head from Danny Larusso. You weren’t ready for that Flying Crane technique. This is where your dystopian train’s last stop ends. You’ve now entered the heart of the robot planet. And so much is going on at once, you see only endless blurs of light followed by constant construction. Who knew crunchy would be a word to describe this. Anyone craving peanut butter sandwiches?
-Clark Harding drones into view. Wobbles and foot steps of a timpani. Blerps and bonks, in like rhythmic fashion. A clave calls out to you. Is that a bird? Something is coming into view. Pixel sunset and palm trees. How did we get here? Maybe it’s a program, an illusion. You hear the waves crashing, but they aren’t the sound you remembered as a child. Is this better than our own reality?, you question. Where did you end up leaving us? I’m peaceful yet tense. Is something coming?
….From beyond the horizon?
Wait! That isn’t a bird!
But…what does it want?
I..can’t ..understand it.
Oh…OH No!!!
This isn’t how I wanted it to…..

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released September 10, 2022

Track list:
1. Wabi Sabi Into Fog
2. Alphastare - Forward Into Oblivion
3. Malarki - Anihkari
4. KZZL - Resuscitation
5. Meed for Storms - Oolith
6. Franck Martin - It Is Spinning Around Me
7. TankiSpiderCat - Guided by Moonlight
8. Clark Harding - False narrative

Mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidiansound.net

Cover art by Korey Luna

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Modular Alliance San Francisco, California

MA began in 2019 with founding members Clark Harding, Franck Martin, and Korey Luna. Each person brought their resources together to build the modular community.

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