Bittersweet Melodies

by Ran Slavin

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1.	Saturday's Dress 06:09	buy track
2.	Category: Murdered Entertainers 07:15	buy track
3.	Disruptive Lounge 03:11	buy track
4.	Fake Sunsets 03:26	buy track
5.	Dubai Dawn 05:03	buy track
6.	Sad But True 05:05	buy track
7.	Sinatra Was Here 05:00	buy track
8.	The Pineapple Assassin 06:06	buy track
9.	Collapsing Melody 03:57	buy track
10.	Fast Moving Circumstances 04:57	buy track
11.	Deserted New Buildings 03:58	buy track
12.	Discreet Features 06:08	buy track

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Bittersweet Melodies, Ran Slavin’s 11th studio album, dives into crime time ambient poster sunsets, Middle East noire, slow zones of scratched utopic atmospheres, lazy scattered DSP lounge, fractured low-fi beats, vinyl postcard vignettes, deserted new buildings electronica. Unreleased material that was long scattered across disparate hard drives and closely associated to a release on Mille Plateaux 12 years ago, prior to its abrupt closure, have been put together, furbished, separated from digital dust, polished, remastered, and re-fired into the ether.

Ran Slavin is a multi faceted artist who works primarily with video installation, sound and film. His work explores fiction and prismatic forms and narratives through video and sound installation and can be interpreted as an expansion of cinematic forms, usually utilizing post production and compositing sensibilities as tools of subversion and reality enhancement. His work often embraces the tension between fact and fiction, supernatural and mythical, history and futurism and compels the viewer to wander beyond reality and the immediate, into a prism of digital superposition.

Slavin has released recordings on Cronica, Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa, False Ind, to name a few and shared stage and concert lineups with Thomas Köner, Aphex Twin, Vladislav Delay, Alva Noto, Klimek, Random INC, AGF, Rechenzentrum & Lillevan, Maja Ratkje & HC Gilje, Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer, @c, Nico (ex Velvet Underground), Crime and the City Solution, The Folk Devils, World Domination Enterprises and many more.

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released April 19, 2016

All tracks written by Ran Slavin. Mastered by Miguel Carvalhais and Ran Slavin. Photography and design by Ran Slavin.

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