Mikrokristal

For all the negative stereotypes that surround many aspects of "provinciality," that same liminal positioning can be turned to significant benefit. These three projects reconsider what it means to inhabit a city's edge.

The Lithuanian label Cold Tear is based in a small industrial town, Mažeikiai. Much of Cold Tear's dub techno and ambient output is designed to look beyond local steel and concrete... to the older, quieter forests that designate Mažeikiai's limit.