Name: Cellulosed Bodies (Original Score)
Brand: Augustus Muller

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NUDE22LP

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-08

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NUDE22

2023-09-15

4250506847852

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Augustus Muller

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Soundtracks

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Nude Club

Nude Club is an independent music label founded by the electronic duo Boy Harsher. With a focus on darkwave and synthpop genres, Nude Club has quickly gained recognition for its unique sound and innovative approach to music production.

As *Boy Harsher*'s own label, Nude Club provides a platform for the duo to release their own music as well as collaborate with other talented artists in the industry. Their dedication to creating atmospheric and emotive tracks sets them apart from other labels in the scene.

With an impressive roster of artists including *Actors*, *Black Marble*, and *TR/ST*, Nude Club continues to push boundaries and redefine what it means to be part of the underground electronic music community. Whether you're a fan of moody synths or haunting vocals, Nude Club offers a diverse range of releases that are sure to captivate your senses.

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Augustus Muller (Boy Harsher) teams up again with Four Chambers to release Cellulosed Bodies, which features two scores, Crash and Automation, through imprint Nude Club Records. Four Chambers is the self-described “project” of experimental pornographer Vex Ashley, filmmaker, photographer, and cultural phenom. Both scores serve as accompaniments to films released by Ashley last year through Four Chambers.

Crash and Automation demonstrate Muller’s mastery of stark, industrial soundscapes. Yet, Muller takes the compositions further - introducing club elements such as ‘nu disco’ tendencies and vocal samples. Thus, he embraces the theme of body meets machine as explored in the visual content of the films.

Crash is an homage to David Cronenberg’s 1996 film of the same name. Both Ashley and Cronenberg explore the eroticism of car accidents, a fetish that feels both mechanical and gory. This violent juxtaposition is Muller’s ultimate inspiration. Featured in Crash, “Body and Machine” is a pulsing, synth anthem, exhibiting both synthetic echos and playful plucky highlights. “Perverse Technology” is a groovy and discordant number, where “Sharing a Smoke” has a somber austerity, you can almost see the hands pass across leather seats, shattered glass against sweaty bodies, and open-mouth kisses in the headlights.

Automation experiments came from the isolation brought upon the pandemic, which turned many into digital fiends. Ashley explores the fixation of technological intimacy, with Automation, a sci-fi feeling porn that features a severe computer entity and trapped prey, succumbing to pleasure. Unlike, Crash, Muller uses less “industrial” sounds in Automation, instead favouring synthetic instrumentation. “Who is in Control” and “Observation” are chilling examples of this - compositions that feature oblique strings and organ like synthesis. Songs such as “Subdue Yourself”, featuring vocal samples of dominatrix Miss Marilyn, are deftly human, yet “speak” from the perspective of the machine.Ultimately, both sides of Cellulosed Bodies play with the mercurial erotic relationship between body and machine. A soundscape that is both haunting and humble, Muller’s follow-up with Four Chambers features some of his best score work.

Cellulosed Bodies (Original Score)

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