AUTiSM: "Fabula"
The NYC based electronic music project AUTiSM ends this year with a new album and a new music video. “Fabula” is the 9th LP album by the one-man-act, with “Disco Fanatics” being the first single from the album and the first full-scale music video for the project.
AUTiSM organically mixes influences like IDM, ambient, dubstep, trip-hop, and various in-between phenomena into its own road map with their own landscapes and cities, mountains and seas of sound.
The album is more diverse and mature than its predecessors and seems to be perfectly fitting to the end of this long and crazy year.
“In modern electronic music, we quite often see some distinct traces coming from the past,” says Vadim Militsin, the core of AUTiSM. “Sometimes, I think that the past that we feel in those tracks can easily be our future.”
The album release was preceded by the appearance of the music video for ‘Disco Fanatics’, the most upbeat and dance-able track on the record: ‘The world is a reflection of what we are, yet we are reflections of the world’.
Enigmatic and surreal '3D punk' video, described as a ‘story-based visualizer’ and ‘art, made by some neural network,’ easily arises polarizing reactions. Several layers of meanings, hidden details, Easter eggs, and a puzzling narrative are waiting to be solved by the viewer.
AUTiSM originates in the mid-nineties, in the era when electronic music, as a global phenomenon, was just emerging. At that time, the band was operating in Eastern Europe. Their first releases were cassettes with inkjet-printed inlays, sold at local record kiosks, far from any famous electronic strongholds. Taking all the best that the electronic scene of London, Berlin, and some American cities provided, AUTiSM was able to create its own unique sound. In 1998, then their latest album, “Membrana” was praised by none other than Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream, as he was one of the judges for a cultural/music festival where the album was featured.
Eventually, in the 2000's, Vadim settled in New York. He played several gigs, got frustrated of the outcome and decided to write and record music at home — for his own pleasure. Vadim says about himself that he is more like a loop and sample DJ than a real musician.
"An architect plans a house of bricks. He doesn't need to create his own authentic bricks to build a beautiful house. I create an album from various sound sources that match the mood of the album. Some of them were not created by me, I discovered them. They just suddenly fell right into place."
Those who know the project love their work and eagerly wait for any new material. Those who do not know — now, it's their time. AUTiSM creates that kind of mixed-mood, rich-sounding, and deep-thinking substance that can easily become a loyal sonic companion for a person who really needs one.
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