Artist:
Hieroglyphic Being
Genre:
Electronic
Total Time:
49:00
Record Label:
Smalltown Supersound
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
April 18, 2025
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Hieroglyphic Being
Genre:
Electronic
Total Time:
49:00
Record Label:
Smalltown Supersound
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
April 18, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: I've been partying since 1984," says Jamal Moss, the living Chicago legend known by his dedicated cult following as the one, the only, Hieroglyphic Being. "40 years later, it's drastically different - everybody's angry!" So sets the stage for Dance Music 4 Bad People, the artist's first album for Smalltown Supersound. Tapping back into the same cosmic frequencies responsible for the prolific house virtuoso's most vital work, the album sees Moss coaxing nine anthems for those up to no good from out of the ether. With driving drum machine workouts and low-slung synth sexuality, Hieroglyphic Being pays homage to human fallibility, drawing focus on the revolutionary potential of house music and club culture that is so often lost to the chaos of the present. "I have yet to walk into a club and see everybody hug and say: Let's forgive each other, let's move forward and make the world a better place," he levels. "With all these conversations about sexuality, ethnicity, politics, whatever, when you walk into an environment with the music, you are supposed to celebrate all of that. Let it be and come together."As the tongue-in-check title suggests, Moss looks to the eternal quality of his art to throw moral compasses into disarray, speaking truth to the evil energies that have permeated the club industrial complex of today while challenging black and white notions of good and bad that are so easily instrumentalized for the persecution of those at the fringes. For Moss, this is a tension he has observed since he started hearing the sound pioneered by Ron Hardy at the legendary Muzic Box, back when Chicago house music was born. "Back then, especially during the Reagan era and the police brutality of the so-called crime and crack epidemic, the one thing I noticed in my community was that house music actually helped us escape from all that negative stuff and make everybody in the environment support each other more." Experiencing house as a great leveling force, the origins of the cosmic dance prophet the Hieroglyphic Being would become can be traced back to the club as an essential site of acceptance. "If there was anybody of a certain walk of life, politically, sexually, ethically, financially, we didn't care," he asserts. "We were just there to be free of all that shit."It's this loose vitality that Moss understands to be in severely short supply in the dance music scene today. "Festivals and clubs profess to propagate safe spaces, but you've probably seen it firsthand: you look around and a good percent of people in the club are not happy." Taking aim at the entire ecosystem, from the malaise and malcontentedness of modern audiences to the false solidarity and commodification of minority positions within the commercial entity of dance music, Moss offers up the raw, unrefined power of the tracks collected on Dance Music For Bad People as an antidote to these evil forces. You can hear this negativity fleeing in fear from the surging drums of 'U R Not Dying Ur Just Waking Up' and 'Dispatches From The B4 Life,' or teased into submission by the sensual low end gurgle of 'The Secret teachings Of The Ages' and the ambling bassline of 'Reality Is Not What It May Seem.' On the dense cacophony of 'The Art Of Living A Meaningless Existence,' Moss sounds ready for spiritual war, armed with restless sequencing and bursts of high voltage static.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
U R Not Dying U R Just Waking Up
(06:36)
2 . The Secret Teachings of the Ages (06:28)
3 . The Map of Salt & Stars (05:35)
4 . Reality is Not What it May Seem (06:00)
5 . I´m in a Strange Loop (05:56)
6 . ispatches From the B4 .Life (06:13)
7 . Awakening From the Daydreams (06:31)
8 .The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence (06:27)
2 . The Secret Teachings of the Ages (06:28)
3 . The Map of Salt & Stars (05:35)
4 . Reality is Not What it May Seem (06:00)
5 . I´m in a Strange Loop (05:56)
6 . ispatches From the B4 .Life (06:13)
7 . Awakening From the Daydreams (06:31)
8 .The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence (06:27)
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