Arca
&&&&& LP vinyl

Reissue of the 2010 mixtape. For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &&&&& was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an impending co-production credit on Kanye West’s Yeezus in 2013. It included cuts of sound and beats that were too weird for that pop project, while becoming a piece of experimental art that what would come to define what is by now broadly known as a ‘post-club’ sound. It’s music that is as visceral as it is experimental; made as much for the mind, as it is for the body.

Released with no warning seven years ago, &&&&& became a bridge between Alejandra Ghersi’s time partying and collaborating with her queer peers, while still living in New York to the next stage of her career releasing on Mute in London. She’d go from making beats for rapper Mykki Blanco and fashion label Hood By Air, posting lurching bass reworkings of pop hits on YouTube, and producing her first fluid mixtapes with DIS Magazine, to finishing off this seminal mixtape on the synths in Daniel Miller’s studio.

NEW / Released in 2013 / Reissue 2020

Tracklist:

A1 Knot

A2 Harness

A3 Fossil

A4 Feminine

A5 Coin

A6 Century

A7 Mother

A8 Hallucinogen

A9 Pinch

A10 DM True

A11 Waste

A12 Pure Anna

A13 Obelisk