← more from
Multidim Records

Downgrade

by Entrancer

supported by
Ari Margolis
Ari Margolis thumbnail
🇩🇰 djYumcode 🇩🇰
🇩🇰 djYumcode 🇩🇰 thumbnail
asterios79
asterios79 thumbnail
Martin Puertas
Martin Puertas thumbnail
Diego Chacón
Diego Chacón thumbnail
jimmy kipple sound
jimmy kipple sound thumbnail
Revolt of the Apes
Revolt of the Apes thumbnail
Hank Williams
Hank Williams thumbnail
PSR B1257+12
PSR B1257+12 thumbnail
GR Kelly
GR Kelly thumbnail
Ali Wade
Ali Wade thumbnail
Adam Rojo
Adam Rojo thumbnail
Power Sherlock
Power Sherlock thumbnail
Chris K
Chris K thumbnail
Alex Goodfriend
Alex Goodfriend thumbnail
Connexion
Connexion thumbnail
negativecopy
negativecopy thumbnail
Sam Bakers
Sam Bakers thumbnail
Dan Lawrence
Dan Lawrence thumbnail
C. Reider
C. Reider thumbnail
GeeBeeMan
GeeBeeMan thumbnail
Jasmine Elm
Jasmine Elm thumbnail
helix
helix thumbnail
loan vvulfen
loan vvulfen thumbnail
Rob Hayler
Rob Hayler thumbnail
XUN
XUN thumbnail
Dan Hayhurst
Dan Hayhurst thumbnail
El Tato
El Tato thumbnail
eugaet
eugaet thumbnail
Ian Fenton
Ian Fenton thumbnail
djprofa
djprofa thumbnail
Sarah Slater
Sarah Slater thumbnail
Kathryn Warner
Kathryn Warner thumbnail
matttreeed
matttreeed thumbnail
Bree Davies
Bree Davies thumbnail
Luke White
Luke White thumbnail
Lauren Mae
Lauren Mae thumbnail
john wohlfahrt
john wohlfahrt thumbnail
Jason Timm
Jason Timm thumbnail
JB Krygier
JB Krygier thumbnail
darylll
darylll thumbnail
Geoff Wilt
Geoff Wilt thumbnail
vampirebat
vampirebat thumbnail
parmantom
parmantom thumbnail
philipbogan
philipbogan thumbnail
Dave Heal
Dave Heal thumbnail
sftfan
sftfan thumbnail
Shawn King
Shawn King thumbnail
Tyler Snow
Tyler Snow thumbnail
thecosmicjoke
thecosmicjoke thumbnail
Keith Rankin
Keith Rankin thumbnail
Pete
Pete thumbnail
dylanacious
dylanacious thumbnail
Patrick Baxter
Patrick Baxter thumbnail
alexneddo
alexneddo thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

  • Limited Edition Cassettes (covers handcrafted by Zach Reini)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Cassettes will be folded in a Maltese cross box, individually handcrafted by Zach Reini. Each cassette is it’s own unique art piece. Edition of 50 - zachreini.com

    Includes unlimited streaming of Downgrade via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out
1.
08:36
2.
02:16
3.
05:18
4.
05:09
5.
04:04
6.
03:44
7.
03:24
8.
03:08
9.
03:18
10.
05:38

about

Braiding a rope over the course of a decade is an exceptionally skill-testing activity. Especially when the braid is wound of something as diaphanous as sunlight running through a circuit. This braid assembled itself in front of my speakers as I listened to Downgrade; made itself known, like a slithering sea creature, as Aliquot Rave. It spoke of pulsional embrace, a maturity (or refinement) of tone, of vocabulary, and approach, that I came to understand as Downgrade’s retrospective quality, plumbing (as it were) aspects of your own discography.
 
The threads of the braid were as much multiple voices as material. Heteroglossia of a true, profound, and bright sense of celebration along with something else that I often hear in your work; its elegiac undertone (undertow). Testamentary echo of life’s unbridled periods of grief. 'This is a work having left its chrysalis', I thought to myself. I understood that the edge I heard as “perspectival crest/ing” in each track was a metamorphic cusp listening allowed me to relinquish myself to.
 
Relinquishment as downgrading, or down-sizing. Downgrade backing, through backward compatibility, into "down-grade": each track growing into a layer of down. Feather-down being the highest quality of down. Downgrade to respite. Downgrade devotional. Downgrade to openness.  

This is the sound of modularity evoking its own self-assembly and, as AR reiterated, it is music one can fall into. Modularity “itself” making good on its neurological disposition to bind. Receptor music admits one into reception. Ineluctable fall predicted by ineluctable landing, in the soft particulate scatter that I now realized I was laying comfortably back in. Hazed, awake, head-nodding.
 
Comfortable, considering everything that had just occurred, it dawned on me that the instrument in question was a sonar detection device. It’s as if the roundness of the record in relationship to my body wanted to remind me that Downgrade is not only evocative of, but that it is in fact constituent of (it is the material, the metal and plastic and electronics) sonar, given as a gift to space, only to return in echo and replay to the listeners that we are to become in the future, having been transformed by listening across the expanse of our experiences, in which we, in turn, become recoded as the device itself that is transmitting the sonar out into space.

- Isaac Linder

credits

released November 15, 2019

Artwork by Ryan Riss
tinyurl.com/y5k9d3s7

Words by Issac Linder
awoa.co

Composed, mixed and recorded by Ryan McRyhew
Denver, CO ~ 2018-2019

Mastered by Tommy Metz
wavemod.com

MDIM008 - Multidim Records
multidim.bandcamp.com

---

Realized by ~ Ryan Riss, Isaac Linder, Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens, Tommy Metz, Multidim Records, Zach Reini, Matthew Peterson, Jon Mulville, my family and everyone who has engaged with/supported my work over the last fifteen years, infinite love to you all. Thank you.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Entrancer image

Entrancer Denver, Colorado

General: info@entrancer.net

contact / help

Contact Entrancer

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Entrancer recommends:

If you like Entrancer, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Gary Bartz, 5 years of Rhythm Section Intl and an LP of the week by Nicolas Jaar

listen now