PSEUDO PROMITTO

Pseudo Promitto is a four-track EP by Sydney-based producer Chunyin, released on Decisions Records (2018). Responding to illegitimate and pirated artistic forms which saturate our contemporary media environment, Chunyin’s four bristling club tracks to contribute to the din. Sickly text-to-speech samples of facebook notification settings on 'Look Back On This' highlight the disturbing politics of digital memories. 'Adidos' is a footwork-inspired jingle for counterfeit sportswear, while 'Terms' and 'Tyrian' access languages of global power and control.

With a nihilistic edge, Pseudo Promitto poses an equivalence between the disintegration of semantics in techno (losing yourself in the music) and globalisation (losing yourself in late capitalism).
The simultaneously dystopian, libidinous and shiny EP (echoed by Wu Mei Chi’s dazzling cover photograph) indulges in the false promises of consumer culture. May the lo-fi rips and dodgy phone videos uploaded onto YouTube/WeChat ensue...