I haven’t heard anyone do an album in a plunderphonics style in some time now. Stanislav Aladev, who composes under the name Shopworn, is a Russian musician who has released one of the most charmingly weird albums I’ve heard this year.
From Stanislav, regarding his work:
“I thought for a long time how and from what to create this album. In 2015, I came across an article about the philosophical current Metamordenism, which was supposed to serve as the beginning of a new era and the end of the old postmodern pleasures. I have always looked at music and other arts through the lens of philosophy, because the time and culture in which we live determines this art. So I wanted to create an album that would still be fresh 10 years later, so I read metamodern basics and started creating. Since the metamodern balances between postmodern and new sincerity, I used samples from video games such as GTA III, for example, and also in one of the tracks I used the sound of the iPhone keys as a hi-hat. All this is a tribute to postmodern traditions. However, I also turned to the chants and chants of the Russian Old Believers, as well as to the Siberian shamans, which, in my humble opinion, should have shown that very “new sincerity”. Thus, my album was made according to all the canons of the cultural movement that is happening before our eyes.”
