REDEEM DOWNLOAD CODE

Enter the download code you received with your purchase to claim your downloads. Keep in mind many mobile devices don't have built in support for opening ZIP files; you may want to download on a computer.

LOGIN

Login with your existing account.

show
Forgot Password

CREATE ACCOUNT

Create an account to purchase items.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters

No More Dystopias

Whitenoise

No More Dystopias

Black Canyon
MP3 $9.90

09/17/2013 655035004402 

DLWHITENo M 

***WHITENOISE is SOLE’s new one-man band and the follow-up instrumental project to his critically acclaimed 2007 release on anticon records, Poly.Sci.187. The name was lifted from a Don Delillo novel, about how real fear and imagined fear endangers our society. It’s an exploration of un-quantized analog 8-track walls of noise combined with the hip-hop "beat" aesthetic. The tracks are songs sole has been fine-tuning for years that eventually became so full that there was no room for vocals. 
 
WHITENOISE harvests samples from a wide range of source material including; 80’s pop, David Harvey, Robocop, McKenzie Wark, Anderson Cooper, David Graeber, vintage sci-fi TV, Iraqi Mujahideen videos, Ronald Wright, and more. This project is a humble attempt to illustrate ways "instrumental music" can provide an apt canvas to reflect on "critical" sentiment in song form in a far less heavy-handed way then a rap song. In a review for sole's first instrumental album Pitchfork dubbed him "the D.J. Shadow for the Huffington Post set." If the former was true then, then WHITENOISE is the Pete Rock of toxic airborne events. 
 
The first single/video, “Fallujah” and “The Military Entertainment Complex” is a sonic look back on what has been dubbed the most violent and brutal moment of the Iraq Occupation. The “Military Entertainment Complex” is the symbiosis of Hollywood, video games and war. It has become the ultimate recruiting tool and mode of blurring real violence from the virtual. The video that accompanies the song features mash-ups of Disney Marches & White Phosphorous Bombardment, Ballet Dancers on the Moon, Para-trooping dogs being thrown into the arctic, Eddie Van Halen doing a guitar solo in front of an Atomic Explosion and the final moments of Sadaam Hussein’s trial before he was hung on youtube over an M.I.A.-esque dance beat.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Abattoir

    Listen

  3. #2 Tough Love 1634

    Listen

  5. #3 Robot Factory

    Listen

  7. #4 Silent Running

    Listen

  9. #5 No More Dystopias

    Listen

  11. #6 Suicide Machine

    Listen

  13. #7 The Game

    Listen

  15. #8 Fallujah

    Listen

  17. #9 The Right To The City

    Listen

  19. #10 What_Future_Tech?

    Listen

  21. #11 Harsh Realm

    Listen

  23. #12 Sunset Over a BP Oil Spill

    Listen

  25. #13 Rhino 2009

    Listen

  27. #14 A.D.H.D. A.D.

    Listen

  29. #15 Military Entertainment Complex

    Listen

Related Items

All By Artist All By Label
Crimes Against Totality

Sole

Crimes Against Totality
Black Canyon
Songs That Went Tin

Sole

Songs That Went Tin
Black Canyon
Desert Eagle

Sole

Desert Eagle
Black Canyon
Mansbestfriend Pt. 5

Sole

Mansbestfriend Pt. 5
Black Canyon
Exhile Ep

Sole

Exhile Ep
Black Canyon
No Wising Up No Settling Down

Sole

No Wising Up No Settling Down
Black Canyon
A Ruthless Criticism Of Everything Existing

Sole

A Ruthless Criticism Of Everything Existing
Black Canyon
Learning To Walk

Sole

Learning To Walk
Black Canyon
Nuclear Winter Vol. 1

Sole

Nuclear Winter Vol. 1
Black Canyon