Approved: Polinski

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Polinski – aka 65daysofstatic’s Paul Wolinski – is set to release his new solo album ‘Telex From MIDI City’ next month. Employing a variety of ageing electronic music sounds and styles – such as analogue synths, MIDI, 90s IDM beats and more – he has attempted to create something that sounds up to date and free of the nostalgia with which they are usually imbued.“I have an increasingly conflicted relationship with technology”, he says. “I love working with computers.

The way I can use them to make music and glitch things feels like an extension of myself and makes me able to articulate things that I could not otherwise express.

But I am deeply uneasy about technology as contemporary socio-political force”.“I don’t believe technology is going to save us”, he goes on. “I think the internet is getting increasingly worse and the social media platforms are alienating us from each other and turning us into free labour for their advertising algorithms.

I think that AI and a lot of machine learning devalues and misunderstands the creative process, and will alienate artists ever further in its quest to reduce art into endless, ephemeral content for the churn of the internet”.“The late, great anthropologist David Graeber said ‘the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently’”, he continues. “And so that’s what this record is.