℗ 2020 Nicolas Bougaïeff under exclusive license to Mute Artists
| Released | July 24, 2020 |
| Duration | 52m 16s |
| Record Label | Mute |
| Genre | Electronic |
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1.1
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Embrace Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
5:26 | |||
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1.2
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Thalassophobia
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
6:26 | |||
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1.3
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The Upward Spiral
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
6:01 | |||
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1.4
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Inexadorable
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
7:16 | |||
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1.5
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Nexus
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
3:18 | |||
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1.6
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Flying High
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
7:43 | |||
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1.7
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Positive Altitude
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
5:21 | |||
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1.8
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Inward Megalith
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
5:41 | |||
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1.9
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Listen Carefully To The Heart Beat
Nicolas Bougaïeff |
5:04 |
Berlin-based producer and artist, Nicolas Bougaïeff has released his debut album for Mute, The Upward Spiral. On his new album, Bougaïeff reframes familiar tropes for his own mind-expanding vision of body music. Punishing industrial techno charges the album at surface level with beautiful-meets-bleak energy. But peel back the layers of brash ferocity, and there’s a hell of a lot more going on than first meets the ear. The culmination of years of hard work, Bougaïeff grew the album from the seeds of a bespoke composition technique; a carefully thought-out studio experiment in how to bend a love of techno into innovative new shapes.
Across nine metallic misadventures, which Bougaïeff describes as “little open scores”, he blitzes drum patterns and sharp synthwork into a satisfyingly effective blend. Intricate rhythmic structures lurk beneath the “strawberry jam” of the surface aesthetics. This rhythmic illusion seeps into every crevice of a record that brings a slice of academia to the rave.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mute Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.01 -1.11 to -0.88 | -12.60 -16.91 to -10.18 | -11.29 -14.60 to -8.70 | 7 5 to 10 | |
| 1 | Embrace Hope All Ye Who Enter Here | -1.01 | -12.65 | -10.1 | 7 |
| 2 | Thalassophobia | -0.88 | -12.38 | -11.6 | 6 |
| 3 | The Upward Spiral | -1.01 | -14.48 | -13.1 | 8 |
| 4 | Inexadorable | -1.01 | -10.26 | -8.7 | 5 |
| 5 | Nexus | -1.04 | -10.18 | -10.0 | 5 |
| 6 | Flying High | -1.11 | -12.45 | -11.5 | 6 |
| 7 | Positive Altitude | -1.01 | -11.98 | -10.9 | 7 |
| 8 | Inward Megalith | -1.01 | -12.08 | -11.1 | 7 |
| 9 | Listen Carefully To The Heart Beat | -1.01 | -16.91 | -14.6 | 10 |