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Bogdan Raczynski
ReleaseProduct
You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever
Label
Disciples
Catalogue Number
DISC31DL
Release Date
18 Oktober 2024

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Following the release of the well received Rave ‘Till You Cry compilation of unreleased versions from the vaults in 2019, Disciples follow it up (a mere 5 years later!) with a new album from Rephlex alumni Bogdan Raczynski, complete with another manifesto style title: You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever.

A collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo-fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping-pong percussion. Each piece is short and to the point, a record of perfect miniatures. Whilst this description may sound utopian, the album is conceived around themes of late stage capitalist brutality, hyper consumerism, online doom and alogorhithmic apocalypse. Beauty in the face of planetary collapse and

24/7 livestreamed genocide. The theme summed up by the front cover which just features a giant (readable) QR code, that most ubiquitous of modern symbols. We’ve asked Bogdan on several occasions for more background information on the creation of these tracks, but received a different answer each time. One of the below statements might be true, though it’s equally possible that none of them are, just like the real news.

  1. All these tracks are a result of Bogdan asking AI to make an EDM album.

  2. These tracks originated in a desperate bid by Bogdan to crack the lucrative mood / chill / coffee / gym algorithmic playlist market.

  3. All of these tracks were commissioned for a Tesla infomercial but rejected when Elon Musk heard them.

  4. The music on this album is over ten years old.

  5. The music on this album was made in a furious weekend of creative inspiration in early 2024.

The QR code on the cover will take listeners to an ever-evolving page on Bogdan’s website which may delve into some of these theories in more detail, or ignore them completely. We leave you with Bogdan’s text in the booklet that accompanied Rave ‘Till You Cry as the closest we may ever get to some kind of logical reasoning:

“Burn the damned art labels. Ambiguity is wonder. Information is an affront to expression, a death knell to spontaneity. For if an explanation is required, then a connection has failed to be made. Art should be like an overtone, resonating invisibly with your history to form an ethereal experience. Either it hits you or it’s wrong time, wrong place. To hell with the dawdling interviews and vanity shots. One turns to music precisely because it least resembles what’s in the mirror. Put away the arrogance and pride, and boast and bias. With each word uttered, your mystery wanes. Your shimmer dims. In my nostalgia, your light show is drowned out by the ricochet of soundwaves. Art is best when all else is drowned out. Black as though the moon forgot to come out. Let the night cover my flailing humanity like a veil. Gangly arms tangled, feet aflutter, yet all but silent against the din. This is not an escape. This is me screaming, happily, inside, out through my fingertips. This is my beck and call. Carefully assembled to draw forth some other form of you. May we partake in this moment together, for just a little longer.”

About Bogdan Raczynski

Rumoured to have been discovered by Aphex Twin sleeping on a park bench in Tokyo, Raczynski first appeared on the scene in 1999 with 3 albums in that year alone. He went on to explore hallucinatory, bassbin-rattling IDM, outsider junglism and traditional Polish folk music amongst other paths, collaborated with Björk, produced a soundtrack for a PlayStation game, and remixed the likes of Autechre, Jonsi, and CLIPPING. In 2019, Disciples began looking after his Rephlex era catalogue, putting together the Rave 'Till You Cry compilation of unreleased gold from the vaults, and reissuing his classic Samurai Math Beats LP. His last studio album, ADDLE, came out on Planet Mu in 2022.

"Bogdan was a massive inspiration for some of my tracks on the Drukqs album, the fact he was doing it all on a shit PC tracker… totally amazing. This was before 99.9 percent of people used the computer for everything. His records are so underrated." - Aphex Twin.

About Disciples

Disciples is a contemporary curator of underground sounds based in London, UK, an in-house imprint of the legendary Warp Records. The initial concept was archival in nature, and focused on 'lost' recordings, whether that be the degraded DIY tapes of Mo' Wax affiliate Black Lodge (R.I.P), rephlexian braindance bangers by Bogdan Raczynski, or the teenage home recordings of His Name Is Alive. Creating new records out of tracks floating in the ether. Over time this has expanded to bring the same care and attention to releasing new music, whether it’s the avant-rap of Model Home, the infinite zones of Suzi Analogue, the paranoid torch songs of Ruth Mascelli, the no wave glam attack of Special Interest, the vertical jamming of Phew, the acoustic reveries of Maxine Funke, the gagaku techno of 99LETTERS, the mutant disco of Niagara, or the looping electronic jazz of Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary. A few more established artists have recently joined the roster also, with 2023 seeing the label release compilations by Sarah Davachi and Wolf Eyes. Disciples are there for those moments on a Saturday afternoon when you are sat at home looking for psychic transformation through tunes.

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