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It Changes
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Ailie Ormston and Tim Fraser
ReleaseProduct
It Changes
Label
OTOroku
Catalogue Number
BIS007
Release Date
May 20, 2022

New album by Ailie Ormston and Tim Fraser, made up of samples of collaborative session material, field recordings and intricate MIDI instrumentation. 'It Changes' traces a moment in UK music culture from the 1990s to the present and repurposes the rhetoric of desire from UK Clubland to contemporary Poundland; from warehouse parties to warehouse employment. Odes are made to MMORPG soundtracks, the figures of authority in Peanuts and the dying frequencies in the ears of gen X ravers. Parts of It Changes were first presented in 2019 as a larger audio-visual work for Counterflows festival and the album was completed using voice notes and a headphone cable stretching between Tim & Ailie’s neighbouring flats during the first and cursed parts of 2020. The title 'It Changes' is taken from a Sherman Brothers song of the same name, written in 1972 for Charles Shultz’s animated feature film Snoopy Come Home. Mirroring themes of alienation and attachment associated with Peanuts characters, and looks at modern individualist and consumerist ideas of desire and liberation. The 1992 UK Clubland anthem Only Love Can Set You Free by N-Trance as a central motif is hashed through the last three decades of neoliberal policies and affected culture. Contemporary spaces and sounds of vacant clubs and cultural centres, platform PA systems and construction sites for luxury accommodation make reference to the decline of the welfare state, surveillance capitalism and our collective will to live, yet spliced through the record is a sincere messages of hope and resistance, experiential ecstasy, and a longing for love. Recorded and mixed by Ailie Ormston and Tim Fraser.

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Artwork by Ailie Ormston and Tim Fraser
Mastered by Jason Goz

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Only Love Can 3:52 Buy

    Only Love Can

  2. 2 Was/Now 5:13 Buy

    Was/Now

  3. 3 Drone Mistake 2 2:35 Buy

    Drone Mistake 2

  4. 4 New Medicines (reduced) 3:00 Buy

    New Medicines (reduced)

  5. 5 Blue WKD UK 3:22 Buy

    Blue WKD UK

  6. 6 Wuu2 4:25 Buy

    Wuu2

  7. 7 No-show (You're Perfect To Me) 2:43 Buy

    No-show (You're Perfect To Me)

  8. 8 Teacher 0:44 Buy

    Teacher

  9. 9 It Changes 4:53 Buy

    It Changes

  10. 10 Set You Free 5:19 Buy

    Set You Free

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