Functory 03 by FunctionLab
“Functory 03” is a manifesto for nobody; it is teenage spirits growing up wildly in the chaotic jungles of the internet. It also resonates with the absurdity of us living days as if they were years, in a time where everything changes on the scale of minutes.
FunctionLab’s distorted drum sounds faster and heavier in 2018~2019. After that, it directly entered a new starting point. In the "collective rebellion" of club music, it is more rebellious to return to a more inner essence of the sound - a form of more functional experimental music. GUAN’s powerful hymn, Yikii’s frenetic release, and the Generation X tear-worthy piece by Laughing Ears are the emotional support of this compilation. Zean, Akito, GG Lobster, Xhankonkon and Bela offer enough energy to start a fire on the dance floor. And with Mr.Peña, XOXO Miro, Mice and Kieran Loftus as other core forces, the BPM is climbs to over 150 while balancing weirdness and sensitivity.
In the process of selecting songs, there was no intention of approaching or circumventing genres popular in the current scene such as Trance and Gabber, although there are some producers who are very good at producing these styles in this compilation. Under multi-threading free choice, everyone contributed to this compilation had managed to achieve a very FunctionLab “flavour”, very personal yet removed from expressions of the self.
Mourning or shouting, the 75 species that are extinct every day in the world; celebrities that are knocked off their pedestal, and the ever-changing musical style of the club scene. Everything happens at the right time, and you can't refute it even if you think it's unreasonable. Just like the Music video of the ending track Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality, directed by Cheng Ran shows: The pigeons are flying in the flash of fire, but they still can't live without the house. If grief makes sense, do we have to dance? If dance makes sense, what else do we have to grief about?
--written by GG Lobster
Functory 03 is the third compilation from FunctionLab
After the practice and introspection of the “localization of the vanguard scene” in the past two years, we proudly started from Hangzhou and have extended our tentacles to a farther geographical space; Collecting music from all over the world and converging into functionlab's own "smell”, self-centred yet separated from self-expression.
Mastered by GUAN
Music Video by Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran
Artwork by Zhou Yilun
Tracklist
Videos
Credits
FL009
License
All rights reserved.
FunctionLab was founded at 2017 in Hangzhou China.
Starting from the third compilation "Functory 03" they have remoulded into a more diverse and worldwide intended music label, by which has led their vision to a more multi-dimensional level, and at the same time, it will keep staying raw and hardcore.