Submerge, by Apta

Submerge

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A white vinyl prressing of submerge with artwork by Zeke Clough

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1.	Submerge 04:15 video	buy track
2.	Emerge - The Hardy Tree Remix 06:10	buy track
3.	Emerge - Polypores Pink Oceans Remix 05:38	buy track
4.	Emerge - Pye Corner Audio Remix 05:42	buy track
5.	Emerge - GNOD Remix 08:05	buy track
6.	Emerge - Field Lines Cartographer Remix 06:28	buy track

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A special ‘Submerge” 12” EP featuring a bunch of reworks of this pivotal track from Apta's forthcoming ‘The Pool’ album on Castles in Space.

Kicking things off, Apta's own rework of the original sees the shadowy textures and droning wall-of-sound backdrop turned into a static-strewn dreamland of a piece, underpinned by a flickering guitar riff, cracked snare drums and fuzzed-out Odyssey strokes before launching into the euphoric half-time vocal refrain.

The follow-up sees Clay Pipe boss, illustrator and musician step into her Hardy Tree guise for a beautifully hypnotic waft of wistful folk-tinged electronics and shimmering ambient textures. It's warmly nostalgic, and packed full of all the feel of a lovely Clay Pipe release.

Following on from that, modular wizard Polypores takes pieces of the original and stretches them into an organic swell of texture and movement, warping the low basses and flickering modular plinks (and / or plonks) into a beautiful, undulating wall.

Flip over and It's none other than the brilliant Pye Corner Audio, providing an organically blooming suite of saturated percussion and woozy drifting oscillators, in peak PCA fashion. There are few artists that can do as much as with little as Martin Jenkins can, and hearing his audio sunshine underpinning the vocal line is breathtaking.

It's good to get the ears nice and soothed too before the aural assault and hypnotic spirit-cleansing heft of the legendary Gnod. Dubby throbbing bass and cavernous reverb tear the original into shards and piece it together as a churning, industrial powerhouse before shooting the rest into the endless reaches of space.

Closing things out on a space theme is the ideal way to do things too, with Field Lines Cartographer's remix taking things waaay into the outer reaches. Grounding bass churns and stellar synth sweeps float below the modulated vocal line, resulting in a perfectly crafted drone, rich in melody but untethered to the earth.

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released November 3, 2023

Written and produced by Apta.
Artwork by Zeke Clough.
Video by Zeke and Johnny.

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Apta Manchester, UK

One Man, Many Machines, some strings.

discography

Submerge

Nov 2023
Days Like These (Low Tribute)

Dec 2022
Starlight

Sep 2022
WF 59 - Elegy / Lullaby

Jan 2022
Echoes

Dec 2021
Rainbow Islands (NG+)

May 2021
WF 24 - Vignettes

Jan 2021
Sun

Jun 2020
Dyskolos / 1Hr Walk

May 2020
Home

Apr 2020
ADSR

Sep 2016

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