Before proceeding, a disclosure: this is being written in one of those $10-and-up cocktail bars.

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Archaic history declares that Pythagoras invented harmony. Amongst teachings that ranged from the transmigration of the soul, the veneration of the fava bean, and the existence of a “counter-earth,” his philosophies pioneered the various material harmonic relations of the octave and their connection with weight as the measure of tension. It is here where we find Pythagoras’s attempt at an essential sonorous order, or harmony of relation — Pythagoras’s ontologically regulating principle.

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What does “free your mind” mean in 2017? I pose this question in good faith. When the sampled phrase comes looping around on “Crush Mood,” the lead track on Ambivert Tools Vol. 1, fading into lockstep with Lone’s breezy, unabashedly feelgood acid-tech, it seems faintly ridiculous: is straightforward techno-utopianism a tenable worldview for the 2017 rave, when the same ideology is used to sell us on the idea that our own precarity is justified?

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The Gag File came out in late April, and I still don’t really have the words. It’s full of voices saying nothing, whose speech has been lost or taken, and mine becomes one of them. On “Ghost” and in the final seconds of “Shot Nerves,” it’s a malfunctioning robot; on “Karaoke With Cal” and “It’s Not Alright,” a cartoon Dracula. Someone breathes, grunts, and yells amid the noisy chatter and deteriorating rhythms that make up “Inhuman Form Reflected.” “No Eye Sockets” is just overheard party music and conversation.

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