8 Billion
Realities

8 Billion Realities is available for pre-order, limited to a number of vinyl copies on a beautiful mutii-coloured splatter version. The artwork is a hand-drawn piece by Daniel Martin Diaz (who I've been a fan of and wanted to work with for a long time), relating to the title which I’ll write more about in coming weeks. Huge thanks to Jack Dominy for providing graphic design to fuse the whole package into a beautiful form.

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Acclaimed electronic musicians, producers and sound architects Max Cooper and Rob

Clouth team up for a new collaborative EP; a dark, playful four-track dive into ambient, breakbeat and techno’s subconscious flow, featuring a standout vocal performance from South London rapper FLOHIO.

Recorded over a series of spontaneous London sessions, “8 Billion Realities” channels

years of creative exchange between two of the genre’s most quietly innovative artists and is a result of a decision between the longtime friends to refrain from conceptual overthinking in favour of instinct and joy.

As long-time admirers of each other’s audio/visual work, Cooper and Clouth collaborated in London together after both emerging from intense, idea-heavy album cycles. What followed was a series of exploratory sessions, half-improvised, half-built around half-formed thoughts. The result is a club-ready EP that feels alive and human: imperfect and hypnotically rich.

“Rob Clouth has been one of my favourite electronic music producers since I first heard his work in 2011,” says Cooper. “His work is more full of ideas and structure than anyone else.” “We were both coming from extensive conceptual studio albums and both in the mood for simplifying things and having some fun with the music, so that’s what we did”.