This is a pretty interesting record both in concept and in sound. This guy Shayne Hage took a bunch of photos around Reykjavik, Oslo, and Vancouver -- of people, landscapes, buses, etc. -- and then converted the images "into raw audio information on the same frequency scales," as he explained to me. Then, he took those audio samples and processed them through his synthesizers to make the sounds heard on KOSS, an album of icy ambient techno and bristly IDM that never would've registered to my pedestrian ears as anything other than a cool electronica record.

Oh, also the the cover art is a photo KOSS took of the 'Good Luck' coin that Bladee and Mechatok made for their 2020 joint album of the same name. Apparently the sounds and images are somehow embedded into that image of the coin as well, but I'm not going to pretend I understand how that works. That was a pretty good Bladee record by the way, people don't really talk about that one.

Anyways, KOSS's site where the photos for this project are altered by the audio files (this is a two-way flow of information transfer) can be viewed here: https://haderachhage.github.io/

KOSS is on Nina. Listen/look down below.