Name: Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline
Brand: Euglossine

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2023-09-01

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Euglossine

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Hausu Mountain

Gainesville-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Tristan Whitehill records under the moniker <en>Euglossine</en>. His immaculate strain of songcraft bridges the complex harmonies of jazz fusion, the ornate synth performances of library music, and the rapidly evolving sentimental resonances of video game music. Euglossine lays out his tracks as lush multi-instrumental productions that blend real-time performances on guitar, bass, and keyboards with detailed backdrops of programmed percussion and tiered layers of analog and modular synthesis. Though his songs showcase winding leads and knotty chord structures akin to progressive rock composition, he bypasses the trappings of virtuosity in favor of austere atmospheres and dynamic emotional arcs.

With a series of releases on labels like Hausu Mountain, Orange Milk, and Beer on the Rug, Euglossine has established himself as an influential artist in the contemporary music scene. His unique style draws inspiration from various genres while maintaining a distinctive sound that captivates listeners.

Similar artists who share Euglossine's experimental approach to music include More Eaze, Nico Niquo, Macula Dog, Giant Claw, Pulse Emitter, Shmu, Wobbly, Nonlocal Forecast, Andy Loebs,and Fire-Toolz among others. Fans of these artists will find themselves immersed in Euglossine's intricate compositions and evocative melodies.

With one tentacle threaded through the US noise underground and one ear fixed on a worldwide online network of freak-friendly minds, the Hausu Mountain label has pumped a diverse menu of experimental music from its volcanic peak at a steady clip since 2012. Founded in Chicago by musicians and roommates Doug Kaplan (who records as MrDougDoug) and Maxwell Allison (who records as Mukqs), the label originally served as a home for their own projects, including the trio Good Willsmith.

As Kaplan and Allison discover new projects from touring the DIY circuit and scraping through the strangest corners of the internet, *Hausu Mountain*’s wide catalog grows to encompass everything from otherworldly synthesizer composition to frantic beat production in the IDM tradition to strains of free jazz infused with electronics alongside horns or drums – onward through any number of genre-bending mutations you might find in the “???” or “Avant/Noise” bin in your local record store. As much as *Hausu Mountain*’s releases diverge in terms of style, the label’s aesthetic hinges on the conception of music as a force to both challenge listeners and entertain them in equal measure. Any given release resists stasis, skips at will through disparate musical vocabularies, and leads listeners through dense sonic narratives that defy expectations as each new idea or unpredictable juxtaposition pierces through the cosmic jelly.

Doug and Max run *Hausu Mountain*

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Gainesville, FL-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Tristan Whitehill releases music under the moniker Euglossine.

 Whitehill envisions each Euglossine release as an outlet for a particular subset of discrete genre explorations, applying his prodigious musical training and vast depth of theory knowledge to styles as far-fung as breezy jazz fusion, technoid beat excursions, bleep-heavy modular synth sketches, and hushed acoustic guitar reveries.

 Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline, the second Euglossine album on Hausu Mountain, follows the sublime Coriolis and joins a rich catalog of diverse releases on labels including Orange Milk and Beer on the Rug. Bug Planet balances hyperhigh- fdelity synth arrangements and busy drum patterns with Whitehill's everbewitching performances on guitar, bass, piano, and futes. The album offers us a hybrid strain of Euglossine music that moves away from his more compartmentalized genre experiments to spread its progressive contours out before us over in every direction he can imagine, landing somewhere in territories that Whitehill describes as: "Biodub, Digital Fusion, or Mutant Jazz."

If our current timeline is bug planet, Euglossine stands at the entrance in the underbrush, waiting to take our six-to-eight feelers and lead us into a miniature subterranean civilization of his own design. Speaking on the themes that inform the album, Whitehill explains, "Insects are the most bio-diverse kingdom on Earth. Over half of the organism species on earth are insects. I wanted to share this feeling that just maybe we are not in control of this planet and a hidden ancient force will long outlast our weird struggle." .

Whitehill channels the depth of his knowledge in music theory and production not to bowl us over with his technicality, but rather to give life to his ideas in all their wide scope and to lay out musical narratives in unpredictable arcs that only he could devise.

Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline

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Discover Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline by Euglossine. Gainesville composer releases a diverse album on Hausu Mountain. Vinyl records available.