Available March 3rd on cassette tape and via Bandcamp, ‘Be Anti-Fascist’ is the new release from Te Papaioea’s hardware electronica protagonist, researchintospeed. With five new tunes rinsed out of the pandemic and endless plans gone awry, researchintospeed’s own-brand of emotional-techno is built to shimmer on the dancefloor and accompany the long summer drive home. For early adopters, the digital-only first single ‘A Taste of Resilience’ (Bandcamp & YouTube) is available now, its sultry late-night vibe perfectly matched to researchintospeed’s layered and languid video, shot around the southern coast bays of Te Whanagnui-a-Tara.
Next Live: researchintospeed’s first live show for the year will this weekend at Burning Horse, the bespoke arts and music festival nestled in the heart of Southland at Waimea. To celebrate the March 3rd cassette release, tune in to youtube.com/@researchintospeed on Thursday March 2nd when researchintospeed will beam four-on-the-floor from their lounge to yours.
Cassette tapes and download codes, no streaming: “I’m stoked for anyone that streaming services work positively for, and a bunch of my stuff is on them… its not without issues…the company controls access and distribution, takes the money, etc...Nothing is perfect, but Bandcamp is the best model I’ve experienced, and I like physical items, so a cassette, some stickers and a download code is the perfect vehicle for researchintospeed.”
Be Anti Fascist: “Community has been the centre of my life for so long, DIY/DIT, Do It Yourself AND Do It Together, if we are able to take action - we should, maybe donate time or other resource, attend a rally, pick up a banner, call out racism, be anti-fascist.”
Machines: “I’m very focused on hardware, I’m kinda a terrible musician, but synths and drum machines make sense to me, so those are my tools. I write, arrange, and perform with the Akai MPC, I have compact digital synths, and for crazy acid leads or glitchy beats a Korg Monologue. It’s all in one case so I can drop into place at the show, plug-and-play, cold-to-hot-four-on-the-floor in less than five minutes, easy.”
“Te Papaioea is THE centre of live hardware electronic music in Aotearoa, just off the top of my head theres SGP, Mirror Stage, Sports Dreams, ABG, Synthetic Children, Ad Hoc, Taakaro Techno Club, the Tiny Club crew and more, there has been a very long held embracing of the synthesizer in the Manawatū, right back to The Skeptics”.
Whats Next? “Having finally completed this recording, I almost immediately wrote a couple of new songs. I’m not a quick composer, so it was a surprise to me! Those tunes will be out mid-year, accompanied by some of remixes, more shows around Aotearoa and ideally back to playing live in Japan again”
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