Løt.te - Longplay (2020)

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Mysteries is proud to release a new album from Turkish-born, NY-based musician and designer Løt.te (@lottesounds). While he is mostly known for his club-oriented releases on The Bunker New York and New York Trax labels, Løt.te has been experimenting with sound design and narrative compositions since he launched the project in 2014. His experimental tendencies and growing interest in politics collide in a 60 minute piece that’s composed as the soundtrack to a short story and film script he wrote. Though the details of the story are not essential for full enjoyment of the musical composition, the overall theme does give context to the dark and emotionally-charged feel of the piece. The story is set in Turkey a few decades in the future, and revolves around the government’s use of surveillance and artificial intelligence to try to hold onto power. It explores themes of autocracy, oppression and resistance, and the growing role technology plays to propagate, enable and counter them.

While Løt.te’s interest in politics has been building since first noticing his home country’s descent into autocracy under the current regime, the specific inspiration for the piece originated from how Turkish and other oppressive governments have been using the internet and social media to silence dissent and incarcerate citizens they deem threatening to their rule, and the way common people have been using similar technology to organize and enable anti-government protests around the world.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio NY
Artwork & Words by Mehmet Irdel