Paid To Be Entertained

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Bruce Reinoso Today my favorite track is Algeria. It has a really nice groove. The melody and harmony have a sweetness that puts me in a good mood. Favorite track: ALGERIA.

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1.	Leaving It All Behind 03:58	buy track
2.	Katorga 05:20	buy track
3.	Patchwork 05:16	buy track
4.	ALGERIA 04:13	buy track
5.	Scale Factor 04:49	buy track
6.	Rain Is Gone 04:19	buy track
7.	Self-perpetuation 04:13	buy track

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Album links: wicrecordings.lnk.to/PTBE
Single links: wicrecordings.lnk.to/PTBE-sp

Written over the year of particular global upheaval, the album "Paid To Be Entertained" is rooted in experimentation with different ways of retaining attention through flirting with contrast and unnaturalness stretched across different layers.

Sharp synthetic percussion jabs paired with stretched granular pads, self-recorded deliberately lo-fi sounds surgically incised into straightforward chord progressions very familiar to the listener – all those disparate elements somehow found their way onto the tracks.
These intertwined elements are a conduit through a tangled story that winds up between the organic and the synthetic, alive and artificial. An enveloping, mellow ambience and arpeggiated melodies, infectious and irritating simultaneously, are strung on a barbed rhythmic backbone in a soulful fashion urging to listen to it thoroughly one more time.

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released September 1, 2021

Composed and produced by Dmitry Sereda, Berlin 2020-2021.

Mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound.

Cover art by Cynthia-ël Hasbani / www.lookmaitmoves.com.

Special thanks to Alexander Zverev, Oleg Burinsky, Charlie Baldwin, Isabella Bassi, Tviga Vasilyeva.

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