A little science history: “The Great Oxidation Event” is a natural event caused by the development of early unicellular life releasing a mass amount of oxygen into the atmosphere, killing everything. A massive cataclysmic event but one that results in life as we know it.
In an ode to this destructive event, sugar sk*-*lls and Coupler have created a three part composition traversing the stages of life, destruction and recreation. All together, the movements are entitled The Great Oxidation Event, due out on Aug 20th. More details on that next week but in the meantime…
Today, “Part I” of those movements is available everywhere. It takes us up to the precipice of the massive event itself. Early cellular life is beginning but the journey is tightly wound and anxious.
Ben Marcantel created this gorgeous video that blends the natural world with the highly technical – video processed through code with results that are both unnatural and entirely Earth bound. I suggest you lock in.
Collaborations between sugar sk*-*lls and Coupler go back as far as 2000; when the two discovered a Venn diagram of overlapping interest in generative, progressive, electronic music. The Great Oxidation Event exemplifies this decades long friendship with a seamless melding of their contributions.
The EP will be released August 20th – you can pick it up in the YK Shop, Ampwall and Bandcamp. Expect more from these two throughout the remainder of 2025.
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