About Me
If you like my music uploaded here please support me by buying my tunes on juno
My new album "Avant Arcadia" is now availbale on Bivouac label in Free Lossless Audio Codec. It includes two bonus tracks.
You can also download my music recorded live in New York at Issue Project Room and mixed down by maestro Terence Lloren. I gigged with Donki Ra, Nim and Green Andy. Enjoy!
Next up is: an EP to be called PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA for German musick label TM Kia! Danhuser
About:
Karol Bujalski - born 1973
Addicted to music making since 1993. 23 Id is my newest experimental project. The Polish combo ODPAD (in English it could be eg Waste Product) was formed at one of the flats in Wola, Warsaw in May 1993, 116 years after T.A.Edison had invented a phonograph. ODPAD was set up by two sound buffs: Bujalex and Novak. They were enchanted with experimental, new wave, punk, techno, noise, hardcore, minimal. They both couldn't bear mass culture and consumption as a predominant way of living. For them it is better to be gone in delightful chaos than in dull torpor. They didn't want to conform.
Only 10-meter room had to be capable of holding the whole acoustic space. Psychoacoustic obsession made the room breathe. Although their work was a typical lo-fi they wanted the harsh sounds to be portrayed with realistic scale. It was ODPAD's secretly raised and really artificial world.
Their songs were not songs, just sounds filled up with emotions. At the beginning ODPAD used to tape the sounds of typical home "instruments": plastic dustbin, washing machine lid and radiator. They cut a wax using a typical home deck and...walkman cans (throughout the time it became the most important band instrument). Mike, of course amatourish and a bit out of order, appeared after 2 years.
This music is gloomy (but from time to time nutso grotesque), bizarre and noisy, you can find here experimental flavourings with a clear soundstage. As a rhythm section Bujalex and Novak used plastic dustbin, pouffes, carpet, real side-drum and cymbals, can-mic rustles and out of tune 3-stringed acoustic fiddle with flying neck as a slap bass. Additionally, 6-stringed Russian acoustic guitar, mouth harp for kids, combs, spoons, pots and two-cassette boogie-box for background effects). All sessions were cut without any mixer (only boogie-box with MIXING IN). They were usually a dozen or so hours long and the sound tuning was truly important.
In 1995 Golab, Bujalex's friend from studies, joined the band. He played drums and lipped. No sooner had the set disbanded in 1996 (after analogue synthi and effects processor appeared) the Zwichnieci Dandysi ( Wrenched Dandies ) came into existence. But, you KNOW, that's another story...
Activities:
I love djing (breakbeat/headz/nu jazz/electro/trip hop/drum&bass)
I do love records and vinyl distortions but hate tone arm setting...
23 Id - noisy nu-jazz (?) electronica solo project... Simple Logic Records
Biv0uac Records featured artist: "Bujalex hails from Warsaw, Poland and let us feature some great experimental music. Our personal favorite - 'Drilling'- offers a perfect blend of noise with random hits and varying levels of reverb creating this great soundscape that hypnotizes the listener, pulling it into its depths." biv0uac.com
Zwichnieci Dandysi - postethnoindustrial group (now with stlkr from Mort Douce)... Simple Logic Records
Gburhy - electro-acoustic trio (myself and two friends: Rynio and Gustaw )
BUY my CD and enJOY (if you are into that weird electronica):
About this CD: 23 ID is a new Polish artist on the ever busy Simlog label, presenting a rough mixture of styles between midi playarounds, noise attacks and sample loops, which altogether blend into a very own definition of electronic, well, believe it or not "rock" music. Highlight is the incredible third piece "Jetsetorchestra", starting with some blatant high sounds and later beeing feeded by a humming smart drone, and though this may sound quite conventional, it is a brilliant catchy track that doesn't sound like your usual ambient noise stuff at all. Strange, diasporal music.(retinascan.de)
BUY my CD and enJOY(if you like throbbing gristle, dub and... disco):
About this CD: Four guys want to have it all and win. After the first track "rigor mortis", which sounds like keeping the promise that Mick Harris' Scorn project could have developed also stronger if only he would have put more ideas than just designing the perfect bass in it, the "dislocated dandies" distribute a tour de force through mainly the darker, but never humorless parts of the later "pop" music history. Based on a fundament of brilliant drumming and a special feeling for dub (without reggae), these 8 tracks are smart, heavy, powerful and fun all at the same time. 10 points for hedonist statement of the month!(retinascan.de)
I also remixed one ov my favorites countryman musician Schistosoma, who makes great sondscapes for psychedelic people, enjoy his site
All in all love experimenting with styles and sounds cause this causes sth interesting to happen.
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