XLR8R 485 - Best Available Technology
Running time: 1 hr 10 mins
Date: 10/09/2017

01 BOA - Droga Luna
02 BOA - Three
03 BOA - War P
04 BOA - Plate Tectonics
05 BOA - Guilt of Excess
06 BOA - Scouring Light
07 Best Available Technology - B16
08 BATIILAB - Lucha
09 BATIILAB - Ungarded (Wastelands v1)
10 BATIILAB - Shimmer 83
11 BATIILAB - Splint
12 BATIILAB - Decilinear


Notes
Best Available Technology is Kevin Palmer, an Oregon-based producer and sound artist originating from Southern California. Having debuted the project in 2012 as part of the BAT & OND TON split release on Opal Tapes, he has since gone on to release on various other imprints, including, most notably, Further Records and Astro:Dynamics, and his extensive discography includes over 10 LPs and a similar number of EPs, encompassing a vast array of sounds and styles—from abstract techno and house to dub, trip-hop, moody lo-fi, and instrumental. It's a wonderfully eclectic collection of music.

His latest LP, Exposure Therapy, dropped last week and is "as expansive as it is intensely personal," the label explains. The album arrived on Styles Upon Styles, and the Brooklyn-based label "provides the perfect canvas for B.A.T.'s brush strokes on the LP," which Palmer describes as "a complex meditation on the golden age of New York hip-hop." It juxtaposes "ambient, dub, hip-hop beats and left-field techno," while simultaneously celebrating "the sonic triumphs of the NYC boom-bap sound and mourning its passing temporality through morphed and decayed productions."

To celebrate the release, Palmer offered to compile a mix for the XLR8R podcast series, consisting entirely of material drawn from his catalog of unreleased work—and all blended together to make one delightfully experimental sonic journey.


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