Saturday, May 22, 2021

Curate This - Up The Penrose Stairs



If there weren't already enough curated mixes strewn about the Internet, Dozens Of Donuts is here to add more. Rather than analyze a burgeoning genre, herald the best of a past one, or merely formulate background music for study sessions, road trips, or midday snoozes, Curate This aims to immerse listeners in a niche aesthetic that enraptures and vitalizes. With written accompaniment to provide the expository backdrop, these songs flow - errantly or harmoniously - around particular moods, sensory emotions, and pertinent tones. April takes us deep into the marshes during an ancient, primitive time where savage barbarians are weary of unsuspecting outsiders.

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A portal opens. Its shimmer reflects ascent as descent and a familiar face as improbable fuzz. Movement is mimicked, reality deconstructs itself around your sempiternal existence. Atoms fracture, splinter, and shatter to part the seas as you enter a dimension bound by stupefied illusion. Above, mirrorless apery sinking along concrete steps singular in their stoic indifference. Below, labyrinthine trails seesawing into oblivion between breathless streaks of light, illuminated by a mouth of unfathomable depth and desire. A void bearing the likeness of a supernova, spewing iridescence like bait on a fishing line.

It taunts knowingly. Inevitable in outcome, ones demise becomes. The mind reels, flashes of panic strewn about memories of regret and failure. Images in the empyrean warp flashbacks into revolting depictions of destruction. All the while, loops from one portal to the next cascade downward, as the weight of this parable assume the roll of boulder. You, Sisyphus. Going down, the burden that much more impossible to stop. This isn't limbo, this is the illusion of choice.

Interlaced rainbows crest under spouting waterfalls, shapes of enigmatic stature contort light as prisms of folly. Dancing hues patter off every surface, pebbles as heavy as bedrock ricochet off these immovable stairs. Yet we step. Down, up, side to side. Entranced by behaviors unseen, unheard, untouched. Angelic harmonies beacon from below, siren calls to lure desperate seekers. It's all a facade, yet one imbrued with voracity.

The unknown below is all too alluring, even in a box so undefined as this. It reveals that satiation in humanity, one may never achieve. Curiosity pulls. It tugs, nags, mocks, peels away until there's nothing left. Nothing to hold onto, no handrail to grasp no step to press. Sheer nothingness, a void consuming all that was and all that will be. Vociferous vomit in one ear, elysian stimulation out the other. Touch both agonizing and amiable. Sight to confounding to discern. This is eternal damnation. The struggle to achieve extinction. Up (Down) the Penrose Stairs.
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ACT  I  -  Down The Rabbit Hole


MGMT - Someone's Missing | 2:30
Congratulations | 2010 | Neo-Psychedelia

Clarence Clarity - Hit Factory Of Sadness | 1:20
No Now | 2015 | Glitch Pop

Ryoji Ikeda - data.multiplex | 1:50
Dataplex | 2005 | Microsound

Boards Of Canada - Music Is Math | 5:22
Geogaddi | 2002 | IDM

Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise If You Can See | 5:42
Space Is Only Noise | 2011 | Ambient Pop

Kelly Lee Owens - 8 | 9:40
Kelly Lee Owens | 2017 | Tech House
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ACT  II  -  Psychotic Break


Material Girl - Meets The Devil, Pt. 2 | 4:26
Drujjha | 2021 | Outsider House

Xiu Xiu - Pumpkin Attack On Mommy & Daddy | 5:01
Girl With Basket Of Fruit | 2019 | Experimental

Matmos - Extending The Plastisphere To GJ237b | 0:11
Plastic Anniversary | 2019 | Field Recordings

Dan Deacon - Baltihorse | 6:22
Bromst | 2009 | Indietronica
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ACT  III  -  Euphoric Bliss


Candy Claws - Pangaea Girls (Magic Feeling) | 3:11
Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time | 2013 | Neo-Psychedelia

Youth Lagoon - The Bath | 4:48
Wondrous Bughouse | 2013 | Psychedelic Pop

Edan - Promised Land | 2:25
Beauty & The Beat | 2005 | Abstract Hip-Hop

Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenades | 2:53
Silver Apples | 1968 | Psychedelic Rock
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ACT  IV  -  The Bottomless Void


Flying Lotus - Clock Catcher | 1:13
Cosmogramma | 2010 | IDM

Arca - Beacon | 0:49
Mutant | 2015 | Noise

Vessel - Sand Tar Man Star (For Aurellia) | 5:27
Queen Of Golden Dogs | 2018 | Deconstructed Club 

Autechre - Further | 10:07
Amber | 1994 | Ambient Techno
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