Mirage FM, by patten

Mirage FM

by patten

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1.	Inhale 01:46	buy track
2.	Say 01:58	buy track
3.	Forever 01:46	buy track
4.	Alright 01:34	buy track
5.	Drivetime 02:24	buy track
6.	Don't Worry 02:10	buy track
7.	Forgot Me 01:51	buy track
8.	Bliss 01:01	buy track
9.	The Door 02:26	buy track
10.	Walk With U 02:20	buy track
11.	Fade 01:12	buy track
12.	Be There 01:34	buy track
13.	In Me 01:53	buy track
14.	Where Does The Time Go? 01:02	buy track
15.	Blue Garden 00:59	buy track
16.	Lightspeed 01:36	buy track
17.	Like Rain 02:33	buy track
18.	Trust 03:10	buy track
19.	Fly 02:20	buy track
20.	Green & Pink 02:06	buy track
21.	One 00:46	buy track

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'𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐌' - the 1st album made from text-to-audio AI samples. Out April 14th via 555-5555.
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«𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚»

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On April 14th the electronic musician, visual artist, designer, and cultural researcher Damien Roach - aka patten - releases his first new album in three years, ‘Mirage FM’. A historic milestone, being the first longplayer of its kind, made entirely from text-to-audio AI-generated sound sources, the record is an emotion-drenched, trippy joyride through contemporary music, and a radical glimpse into the near future and beyond.

After working with AI for years in his visual output, long before DALL-E 2 came on the scene, Roach heard about a new tool for music creation over the recent winter holidays, and immediately started experimenting in one epic all-day and all-nighter, capturing hours of recordings. The system he found, ‘Riffusion’, works by inputting written descriptions of what you’d like to hear, the AI creating a new 'imagined' spectrogram image based on the text, and then turning that into sound – utilising what it's learnt from its vast dataset of recorded music history.

Like a crate digger in latent space, patten scoured hours of lo-fi recordings from these sessions for tiny sections that resonated, and used these as building blocks to assemble ‘Mirage FM’. With countless hours of chopping, sequencing, layering, EQ, repitching and fx, it started to take shape.

Across its 21 beat-tape-meets-Musique-concrète style tracks, genres from pop to techno, R&B to opera, hip-hop and grime to ambient, are distilled into half- remembered fragmented forms. Low fidelity and weird, with an aptly spectral quality, sonically the results are like something dialled in from a parallel universe, recalling the degraded sound of early low bitrate MP3s and dial-up audio streaming.

Everything from heartfelt AM radio ballads, out-there jazz excursions, peak time dance breakdowns and stargazing electronics collide with a stuttering, half-collapsing form, like a failing WhatsApp call or podcast stream. But, somehow, in all its wrongness, it works, like the vinyl crackle or warped cassette of our times. This is the ghost in the machine, singing back broken songs of love and loss, hopes and dreams, things to come; Whether a warning or a celebration, or somewhere in-between, only time will tell.

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His first full-length since 2020, ‘Mirage FM’ follows the 2019 LP of UK club excursions ‘FLEX’, the ‘Burner’ EP from 2021 (featuring Antipop Consortium’s Beans), and his trilogy of 2020 albums; the beatless ‘GLOW’, its melted down cybernetic metal counterpart ‘GLO)))’ and the collapsing techno of ‘Aegis’. In 2022 came the ‘Desire Path’ EP, which graced Bleep’s top tracks of the year with ‘Kiss U’.

In addition to the above, Roach’s CV includes numerous soundtracks, live commissions, cutting edge visual art projects, and creative direction/design under the moniker 555-5555. He recently created the visual world behind Dan Snaith’s Daphni releases, and the live visual show for Caribou.

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