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Polish Polyrhythmic Arpeggios
Either there should be a word for it or we should just coin one. A sort of unnamed phobia for that perplexing fear of reading foreign literature webspun and badly Google-translated. Somewhere near Trypophobia, perhaps (and please do not repeat that name in our presence)? But it is a fear which grabbed us by the collar upon trying to do a small investigation on a record label from Skoczów, Poland. A label called Mik Musik with tons of malevolent electro-noise and an insatiable appetite for experimentalism to parallel Black Dice and Aphex Twin’s more liquid side.
We tried hard to read the bio but we hit a concrete wall in our attempt to find English equivalents for words such as Szoubiznes, remiksowaliśmy, or cybernetyczność in the context. So we’d sooner let the story stay abstract in a safe shell in an attic library of a house in Cieszyn County.
On the bright side and despite the ignorance, we have now discovered an archive of highly encrypted electronic music which is nothing but food for trouble-seeking ears. What we do know from this archive is that the latest post-everything attempt at Mik Musik is a short album by Lautbild called Proletkult which is manifested with a quote from the Russian-American writer Emma Goldman that reads “If I can’t dance, it’s not my…
