Radio Species
Compressed Knowledge
Soda Gong
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2025
Includes Instant Download
CS
10.99
SODA017CS
Edition of 75 copies, fold-out j-card
Pre-Order: Available on / around Jul 18th 2025
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Tracklist
1Canoe 1:26
2Rhizome 2:55
3Combustible Stir 2:29
4Vastu 7:01
5High Tech Wood Burning 0:50
6Compressed Knowledge 2:45
7Apiary 4:36
8Membrane Sequencer 1:37
9Enzyme 3:33

Scavenger tones and scrambled cassette residue drift across the surface of Compressed Knowledge, a quietly astonishing new work by Philadelphia-based sound artist Tyler Games, operating here as Radio Species. Following releases on Regional Bears, Irrational Tentent, and his own now-defunct Born Physical Form imprint, Games works in a space between musique concrète, tape collage, and microsound, using an economy of gesture to create a suite of fundamentally elusive compositions. Harmonic loops stutter and fold in on themselves, hazy rhythms break free from their clocks, snatches of speech cut out mid-thought as a layer of room tone and tape gunk holds everything in suspension. There’s a sense of broadcast without a source, flickering across half-tuned frequencies––hinting at formal structures while continually slipping away from them. The result is not archival in the traditional sense, but archaeological: these tracks are partial objects, pulled from the noise floor of memory. In its refusal to resolve into stable meaning or musical form, this is work that draws from traditions of sound ethnography, experimental documentation, and concrète montage––where listening itself becomes a mode of speculative reconstruction.