℗ 2020 Nicolas Bougaïeff under exclusive license to Mute Artists
Released April 30, 2020
Duration 52m 16s
Record Label Mute
Genre Electronic
 

The Upward Spiral

Nicolas Bougaïeff

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1.1
Embrace Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
Nicolas Bougaïeff
5:26
1.2
Thalassophobia
Nicolas Bougaïeff
6:26
1.3
The Upward Spiral
Nicolas Bougaïeff
6:01
1.4
Inexadorable
Nicolas Bougaïeff
7:16
1.5
Nexus
Nicolas Bougaïeff
3:18
1.6
Flying High
Nicolas Bougaïeff
7:43
1.7
Positive Altitude
Nicolas Bougaïeff
5:21
1.8
Inward Megalith
Nicolas Bougaïeff
5:41
1.9
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
-1.01-12.65-10.17
2
Thalassophobia
-0.88-12.38-11.66
3
The Upward Spiral
-1.01-14.48-13.18
4
Inexadorable
-1.01-10.26-8.75
5
Nexus
-1.04-10.18-10.05
6
Flying High
-1.11-12.45-11.56
7
Positive Altitude
-1.01-11.98-10.97
8
Inward Megalith
-1.01-12.08-11.17
9
Listen Carefully To The Heart Beat
-1.01-16.91-14.610

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