{"product_id":"4582561400315","title":"Discovery Zone - Quantum Web - Japan CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovery Zone\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant and diverse work that traverses 80s sophisti-pop, contemporary hyper-digital bubblegum, and early electro, with glimpses of downtempo and city pop essence! Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of JJ Weihl, a New York-born, Berlin-based musician and multimedia artist who moved from his native New York to Berlin in the early 2010s. JJ, a songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, released four albums as a member of the beloved art-rock band Fenster on Morr Music and other labels before releasing \"Discovery Zone with Remote Control\" in 2020. JJ named Discovery Zone after a chain of indoor youth entertainment facilities filled with mazes and climbing structures.The facility was born of commercialism, which she describes as a \"glorified cage,\" but still offered her and millions of other children the freedom to explore; Discovery Zone's music plays with the perception of inevitable corporate social control, blurring the institutional provenance It finds its own power and liberation in sound. Inspired by the omnipresence of advertising and corporate culture as well as the possibilities of cybernetics and neural networks, Discovery Zone plunges into the uncanny valley with Quantum Web. She wrote much of the music for Quantum Web for the multimedia performance Cybernetica. She catalogued her daily activities as data to be analyzed and presented a statistical breakdown of her life to a live audience on stage. A machine-mediated pop star, she is willing to immerse herself anonymously in her work.With Quantum Web, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound sprinkled with luminous vocals and baroque instrumental flourishes; JJ's voice is compositionally centered, focused, and seductive, while she uses high-resolution synthesis and ambience that dilutes time, contrasting lucid moments with esoteric strategies. Vocoded textures are layered into dense choral networks, and A.I.'s voice synthesis hits the mix as abruptly as an announcement from a meditation session; staccato samples of JJ's disembodied voice color the arrangement, which acts more like a synth patch than a vocal take. The album is a unique pointillistic harmonic system that serves more as a synth patch than a vocal take. Quantum Web draws its power from this composite mosaic of inputs, as if to advocate that no matter how far removed from the sounds that emerge from JJ's physical form, these forms represent his core self. (1\/2)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Supernatural\u003cbr\u003e2.Pair A Dice\u003cbr\u003e3.Ur Eyes\u003cbr\u003e4.FYI\u003cbr\u003e5.Qubit Lite\u003cbr\u003e6.Test\u003cbr\u003e7.Out\u003cbr\u003e8.Operating System\u003cbr\u003e9.Mall Of Luv\u003cbr\u003e10.Kite\u003cbr\u003e11.All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go\u003cbr\u003e12.Undressed\u003cbr\u003e13.Qubit QT\u003cbr\u003e14.Keep It Lite\u003cbr\u003e15.Xrystal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plancha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48082369413409,"sku":"4582561400315","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4582561400315.jpg?v=1707849108","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/en-ec\/products\/4582561400315","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}