Hey people!

We at the Peppermill have begun a massive new project that I think is up this forum's alley... not all glitch-hoppy, but some definitely is, and I'll try to post a few of them throughout the year.

You see we're putting out a new vision of the future every Friday, for an entire year. These sub-bassy producers are soundtracking the year 2999 and writing a bit of a story about it, and then illustrators are bringing these visions to life.

Some of the artists taking part include DNTEL, Slugabed, ill.Gates, The Widdler, Raffertie, Kid606, Mochipet, Robot Koch, Taal Mala, Max Ulis, Longwalkshortdock, The Librarian and tons of others. And that's just the music, some of the visuals we've had submitted so far are mind-blowing... in fact IdN is planning a 2999 feature with some of the illustrations and a cd of music, that's exciting, but anyhow here check it out.........

"A materializing spaceship firing scintillating arpeggios at an indefinable nomad, a sanskrit mirage of a metropolis, a sky with an atmosphere so sulfurous the sun is a hazy impression, and moons standing in euclidean symmetry orbiting a drama with no witness."


http://www.peppermillrecords.com/arka

"Where once was a city of lesser ambition but greater vibrancy we catch glimpses of a smoldering crater amongst fumes of industry. At its heart, a spire, so tall, so baroque, so architecturally unsound yet defiantly standing. As if it had once exploded into being, it shoots myriad walkways from itself that curl up into what resembles a high concept wireframe of an actually inhabitable cityscape-to-be.

I grab your hand and we go down one of the walkways. It’s as if entering a spiderweb that hasn’t even the decency to snare you. It just taunts and warns of a spider somewhere. Everything is both an underpass and an overpass. We’ll never know how we stand.

Everything is cold to the touch, everything is cold to the EAR. Ringing pipes, clamoring catwalks, bellowing surfaces. We walk not though a city, but through a leviathan of metal alloys, who’s stomach growls as a banshee haunts, for we are the indigestion. If not for petrol and diseases, we’d be the sole organic matter, you and I. And with the sky red and the clouds black, the winds gone and the rain sulphuric, I’m not even sure how we manage to stay that way.

Yet we march on. There are no clocks here. The stars we cannot see. The city is eternal, static, desolate, unchanging. And with day and night no longer distinct and a destination meaningless, time becomes but a device of self-cohesion. If not for the succession of thoughts, I fear we would dissipate into forever.

But lo, we’ve come upon an opening. As if cut into the fabric of our sight itself, the cave mouth smiles at us. An impossibly smooth detonation carved this into being… loose pipes and sparking circuitboards line the sides. We fearlessly enter, the strangeness showing promise in this land of despoilment. At the end of the snaking passage… a room.

In a world where everything is either hub or cockpit…. A simple room. A living room, in fact. We greet long-lost brothers: wood, dust, mold! Cobwebs! We walk along the creaking wooden floor, every creak an otherworldly delight, to a sheet-covered apparition, and pull the sheet away to reveal… the most missed of all brothers… furniture! Ottomans, divans, fainting couches, coffee tables, armoires, sofas, armchairs, a darling china cabinet. All antique, all gorgeous, all functional only in the amount one is willing to invest in them. Form over function. What a relief. All awaited here, covered in sheets, as if surrendered to their ghostly fate. Ghosts in the upholstery."


http://www.peppermillrecords.com/upghostery

these 2 tracks are fucking INSANE!!

thanks man! i think the non-glitchy ones are pretty good too...

http://www.peppermillrecords.com/2999

also for your benefit i'll mention that coming up yet we have tracks from p.h. fat (featuring spoek), sibot and markus wormstorm.

nice! Looking forward to hearing that! Was a big fan of the Sibot & Spoek's Playdoe album.

Cape Town is booming at the moment! So much good stuff pouring out of there right now. Cant wait to see what the coming years bring from some of these artists.

This was my introduction to your label. Tons of great stuff on your site! So much to check out!

MOCHIPET / HR-FM - PETDESTROYER









"It's the year 2999 and we have virtual pets with virtual owners. The lines between life and death have been blurred to the point that one actually crosses each other. The dead pets are now babies and their pets are the babies which gave them life in the beginning. We often find the owners dressed up like fuzzy creatures to resemble their pets. They no longer can have children because they never die. Instant life is instant death. We put the cat back in the bag to cure its curiosity."


http://www.peppermillrecords.com/petdestroyer/

amazing concept project, some of the new tunes are great! artwork too!

hmm i don't see the illustrations here, is it just my connection? or did they disappear?

anyhow, haven't updated this project in a while because only the occasional would fit as "glitch", mostly we're shooting for "genre-less".

also we're now half-way through and taking an intermission while we get more tracks illustrated, and maybe put out some folk music and stuff. actually we have an ace of base tribute on the way, for reals.