FROM BLUEPRINT TO RUINS

This post simply sums up many of the Fragment King media sites and those featuring associated projects and Nexialist Operations: Fragment King at Bandcamp: https://fragmentking.bandcamp.com/ Fragment King compilations and collaborations at Bandcamp: https://nexialist.bandcamp.com/ Cooperation with Z'EV at Bandcamp: https://zevalexandravonbolznfragmentking.bandcamp.com/ Fragment King and Nexialist Operations at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ Alternative video channel at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/nexialist/videos Fragment King entry at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/14856-Fragment-King

Above Us (FK 25th Anniversary Edition) von Fragment King "Rot" was recorded in Berlin sometime between 2008 and 2010 within the "Angel Position"-sessions. While the track wasn't part of the "Angel Position" album (mastered by maverick hardcore drum n bass and dubstep producer Bazooka, released on MHz in 2014 and re-released in a special edition in 2022 with graphics by Liis Roden), it was part of the "Here Music Dies" cassette release on Annihilvs, which was a mirror image of sorts of "Angel Position" by including alternate recordings from that session. "Rot" is inspired by the incredible Anime series "Bleach" and, in particular, by one of main character Ichigo Kurosaki's adversaries, the Arrancar by the (equally incredible) name of Barragan Luisenbarn, or バラガン・ルイゼンバーン in the Japanese original. His "battle cry", so to speak, is "ROT!" There you go.   Bazooka @Bandcamp Liis Roden @Liisroden...

The Cellmaker's Sinister Jazz von Fragment King Sometime in the 90s one of my architecture-co-students happened to work in a local record store. We would talk about music and literature more than about architecture. Eventually he suggested I pick up Flann O'Brien's "Third Policeman". Today I'm not quite sure how this came about, perhaps we were talking about David Lynch or renowned Irish authors, who knows. Ah, now I remember. The thing was that a house played a role in the novel, and in-between the walls of the house was an entire other "hidden" house. In the 2000s, when I recorded this track, the title became an inspiration. The track itself is a structure continuously unfolding in time in a manner similar to O'Brien's mysterious house unfolding in space in impossible ways.