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Two Venues, a Bowling Alley & Jack White’s Stamp of Approval: How Detroit’s Majestic Theatre Center Became a Landmark
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Two Venues, a Bowling Alley & Jack White’s Stamp of Approval: How Detroit’s Majestic Theatre Center Became a Landmark
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Two Venues, a Bowling Alley & Jack White’s Stamp of Approval: How Detroit’s Majestic Theatre Center Became a Landmark
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No Sin In Eden brings Detroit pop/rock and Mariea Antoinette brings soul/jazz harp to this week's TheDavidBowersAwards, wherever you get podcasts
https://buff.ly/3Y0AYnF #musicnews #indiemusic #buzzsprout #feedspot #podpage @followers
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New guests, new music, new stories - a new TheDavidBowersAwards with Detroit pop/rockers No Sin In Eden and harpist (yes HARPIST) Mariea Antoinette
https://buff.ly/3MTTbhk #musicnews #indiemusic #indieretweets #artistrack #banksradioau #followers
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⭕ #IRAN | #INDE ] Un enregistrement audio montre le pétrolier #Indien #Sanmar-Herald implorant les forces #Iraniennes de cesser de tirer sur lui dans le détroit #d’Ormuz ce matin.
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⭕ #IRAN | #INDE ] Un enregistrement audio montre le pétrolier #Indien #Sanmar-Herald implorant les forces #Iraniennes de cesser de tirer sur lui dans le détroit #d’Ormuz ce matin.
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⭕ #IRAN | #INDE ] Un enregistrement audio montre le pétrolier #Indien #Sanmar-Herald implorant les forces #Iraniennes de cesser de tirer sur lui dans le détroit #d’Ormuz ce matin.
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⭕ #IRAN | #INDE ] Un enregistrement audio montre le pétrolier #Indien #Sanmar-Herald implorant les forces #Iraniennes de cesser de tirer sur lui dans le détroit #d’Ormuz ce matin.
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⭕ #IRAN | #INDE ] Un enregistrement audio montre le pétrolier #Indien #Sanmar-Herald implorant les forces #Iraniennes de cesser de tirer sur lui dans le détroit #d’Ormuz ce matin.
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Joe Jennings MVPs Cover Eddy Grant Ahead Of Summer 2026 Release
Joe Jennings (of JJ & The Real Jerks fame) has unveiled his newest project: Joe Jennings MVPs. To kick things off, the band has released a high-energy cover of the proto-punk/rude boy classic originally by 32nd Turn Off and Eddy Grant. This single serves as a teaser for the upcoming album, ‘Tiki Tiger,’ which is slated for a Summer 2026 release.
Now based in Tucson, Arizona, Jennings teamed up with local “desert genius” Matt Rendon to record ten new tracks that blend his Detroit roots with Los Angeles grit. While fans wait for the new record, the debut album Nothing Wrong with Giving Up is currently available via Take the City and Sweet Grooves Records.
https://youtu.be/iCvY7ju8bkg?si=CLMutmirokCvFKA1
#EDDYGRANT #INDIEROCK #JOEJENNINGSMVPS #MUSIC #NEWS #PUNKROCK
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Tigers all out for 207 in first ODI against West Indies https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/387062/ #BanglaNews #BangladeshBreakingNews #BangladeshEconomyNews #BangladeshHeadlines #BangladeshLatestNews #BangladeshNews #BangladeshNewsToday #BangladeshPoliticsNews #BangladeshSportsNews #Baseball #Detroit #DetroitTigers #DetroitTigers #DhakaNews #MLB #Tigers
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Tigers all out for 207 in first ODI against West Indies https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/387062/ #BanglaNews #BangladeshBreakingNews #BangladeshEconomyNews #BangladeshHeadlines #BangladeshLatestNews #BangladeshNews #BangladeshNewsToday #BangladeshPoliticsNews #BangladeshSportsNews #Baseball #Detroit #DetroitTigers #DetroitTigers #DhakaNews #MLB #Tigers
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‘Friendship’ Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson’s Hometown Detroit; ‘Sister Midnight’, ‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ – Specialty Preview
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‘Friendship’ Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson’s Hometown Detroit; ‘Sister Midnight’, ‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ – Specialty Preview
#News #Friendship #July7WhoKilledThePresident #Salome #SisterMidnight #SpecialtyPreview #TheKiss #TheMetOpera #TheOldWomanWithTheKnife #TheRuse #ThingsLikeThis #TimeRobinson -
‘Friendship’ Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson’s Hometown Detroit; ‘Sister Midnight’, ‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ – Specialty Preview
#News #Friendship #July7WhoKilledThePresident #Salome #SisterMidnight #SpecialtyPreview #TheKiss #TheMetOpera #TheOldWomanWithTheKnife #TheRuse #ThingsLikeThis #TimeRobinson -
‘Friendship’ Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson’s Hometown Detroit; ‘Sister Midnight’, ‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ – Specialty Preview
#News #Friendship #July7WhoKilledThePresident #Salome #SisterMidnight #SpecialtyPreview #TheKiss #TheMetOpera #TheOldWomanWithTheKnife #TheRuse #ThingsLikeThis #TimeRobinson -
Cultural Popcorn – Favourite Albums – 5/12/24
English Bob hosts Ep. #387 ‘Favourite Albums’, picking tunes from his all time favourite LPs from 1966-2015. Hear classic and lesser known cuts by The Kinks, Richie Havens, The Stooges, T.Rex, James Brown, Shuggie Otis, The Mighty Upsetter, The La’s, Kristin Hersh, The Breeders, Veruca Salt, The Detroit Cobras, Tinariwen, Deerhoof, Micachu, […]
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Joe Jennings MVPs Cover Eddy Grant Ahead Of Summer 2026 Release
Joe Jennings (of JJ & The Real Jerks fame) has unveiled his newest project: Joe Jennings MVPs. To kick things off, the band has released a high-energy cover of the proto-punk/rude boy classic originally by 32nd Turn Off and Eddy Grant. This single serves as a teaser for the upcoming album, ‘Tiki Tiger,’ which is slated for a Summer 2026 release.
Now based in Tucson, Arizona, Jennings teamed up with local “desert genius” Matt Rendon to record ten new tracks that blend his Detroit roots with Los Angeles grit. While fans wait for the new record, the debut album Nothing Wrong with Giving Up is currently available via Take the City and Sweet Grooves Records.
https://youtu.be/iCvY7ju8bkg?si=CLMutmirokCvFKA1
#EDDYGRANT #INDIEROCK #JOEJENNINGSMVPS #MUSIC #NEWS #PUNKROCK
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Scattrbrain – Bombs Away 7″ (Big Society)
If you’ve been following Thoughts Words Action for any amount of time, you know I have a massive soft spot for artists and bands who aren’t afraid to set their own reputation on fire just to see what kind of light the flames produce. Coming straight out of Detroit, a city that knows a thing or two about spirit and reinvention, this new 7” titled Bombs Away by Scattrbrain is exactly the kind of sonic curveball the underground needs right now. It’s a complete atmospheric shift. Taking cues from those legendary moments when artists decided to abandon their comfort zones for the sake of raw, unfiltered expression, Scattrbrain acts like a project built for the sheer purpose of catharsis. We’re talking about a creative, intelligent blend that pulls from art punk, punk rock, indie, and some surprisingly heavy rhythmic influences, creating a dangerous, fresh, and unique sound.
The first half of this 7” is a total adrenaline shot. Right out of the gate, you’re hit with a chaotic and incredibly tight wall of sound. Instead of a basic 4/4 beat, we’re treated to these marvelous drum and bass-style patterns. It adds a layer of frantic, modern dynamics that keeps the energy at a boiling point. The guitars are beautifully gnarly, pushed through enough fuzz to make them feel raw and aggressive, but never lose the groove. The basslines are equally distorted, providing a thick, groovy foundation that ties the whole experiment together. Over the top of this instrumental lies an excellent vocal performance. It carries all the emotional weight of the lyrics and feels like someone pouring their soul out in a basement show while the world ends outside. If you’re into experimental punk that actually has something to say, this is going to resonate with you immediately. Once you flip the record, Scattrbrain shows you they aren’t just a one-trick pony focused on volume. The B-side reveals a perfect indie punk composition that highlights their songwriting, composing, arranging, and producing abilities. It’s a complete shift in mood, moving into a more melodic, soulful, and emotional territory that proves this band knows exactly how to handle production and atmosphere. The performance here is more nuanced. The GRIP’s vocals sit perfectly in the mix, delivering a deeply evocative and heartfelt performance. It’s a track that showcases the band’s versatility. They can go from a sonic riot to a melancholic masterpiece without breaking a sweat. It’s soulful indie punk at its absolute best, proving that Scattrbrain is just as much about the art as they are about the punk.
Bombs Away is a stellar introduction to this incredible project. This is music for the people who want to feel the cracks in the pavement and the static in the air. A perfect choice for anyone who loves punk rock straight from the heart, but also craves some experimental journeys into drum and bass and artsy indie music. By blending the aggression of Detroit’s heritage with forward-thinking rhythmic choices and genuine emotional depth, Scattrbrain has delivered an essential release for anyone keeping tabs on modern, experimental punk rock. Head to Scattrbrain’s Instagaram page for more info about ordering this gem on 7” record.
#ARTPUNK #DRUMANDBASS #GRIP #INDIE #INDIEROCK #MUSIC #PUNKROCK #REVIEWS #SCATTRBRAIN
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@DJDarren @labr That was 1985-86, helluva good year for music. Minneapolis was funkin', Detroit Techno was emergent, Run-DMC brought hip-hop to the mainstream, and "alternative" music was still indie and underground. But this was the year I discovered #MilesDavis. Man, did I wear this one out! 🎶 👍 😁 #Jazz #ClassicJazz #Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jnqz62d9oM
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If you need some wild, menacing, herky jerky, often fuzz-drenched music for some energy this Friday, may I present for your ear holes a new discovery from Detroit, FEN FEN.
Fen Fen don't mess around. This self-titled record of theirs is from two years ago. Kinda garage punk, kinda remind me of like, Braniac sometimes? Also a little Briefs or Buzzcocks.
https://fenfen.bandcamp.com/album/fen-fen
#punk #PunkRock #FenFen #Detroit #DetroitBands #Michigan #MichiganBands #fuzz #FuzzDrenched #IndieMusic #Garage #GarageRock
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CF Interview | apaull: «Do you have the gunfactor?» On Furnace Room Recordings
Some albums arrive with a concept so precisely articulated that the music barely needs defending. Gunfactor, apaull’s new record on Furnace Room Recordings, is one of them. Ten tracks navigating the pathways to fame — and infamy — across a sonic palette that moves from techno to synthwave by way of industrial, always with an economy of means that signals someone who knows exactly what they’re doing. The title lettering is by Al Diaz, a past collaborator of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photographs are by Dave Clarke. We spoke with apaull about the album, its contradictions, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Club Furies: The title operates simultaneously in two languages with meanings that don’t contradict each other but pull in different directions. Was that tension intentional from the start, or did the linguistic ambiguity emerge during the process and you decided to let it do its work?
apaull: The tension was intentional. The Dutch meaning came first, though. I was having coffee with a Dutch booking agent and she said you need produce good music but also have the “gunfactor”, this intangible ’it factor’ to become successful (and famous). The immediate question is how does one achieve that “it factor”. The theme developed from there. Either you have exceptional talent which leads to fame or you are somehow notorious, which leads to infamy.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/sets/gunfactor-8-tracks
Club Furies: The album draws an implicit distinction between earned fame and inflicted fame. Tracks like «Veilig» or «King Dome» seem to inhabit that grey zone where recognition arrives through circumstances no one would have chosen. How do you construct that difference narratively without collapsing into moral judgment?
apaull: Great question. While I have strong personal views I try to present things agnostically. I create perspectives in my tracks, that sometimes belie my personal views, but are really there to ask the listener what they think. It’s like listening to a painting. What do you hear and what do you think about it?
Club Furies: «Finishing School» summons something from another era that, by your own notes, «might still hold true today.» What strikes you as more unsettling: that those ideas persist, or that we still have to keep saying so?
apaull: “Finishing School” is a tongue in cheek examination of societal structure. In previous eras, roles were more clearly defined than they are today, if not over the top rigid. Today we find ourselves in jello, where structure has been systematically removed. We now live in an open concept society, if not over the top lax. “Finishing School’s” light hearted question is do we need some of that structure back.
Club Furies: The album has very specific geographies: Berlin in January, Detroit, New York implicit in «Veilig.» Do those physical contexts affect the compositional process technically — in the sound, the tempo, the processing — or do they function more as states of mind?
apaull: Both. I absorb where I am and this influences my state of mind and how I write. I write music almost continually and love writing in hotel rooms. For instance, the album track “Fang Mich” (Catch Me) was written and produced in Berlin. It captures the vibes I soaked in from the winter weather, Tresor & Berghain techno forays, a cold and jet lag. I live two hours from Detroit, the birthplace of techno, and go there for Movement each year. Detroit techno is pretty straight ahead but with indelible flashes of house. It is warmer than Berlin techno. The track “Veilig” (Safe) was written about something that happened in New York. I have been there many times and carry the vibe of this ‘infinite city’ with me.
Club Furies: «Cartel» proposes a kind of inverse moral relativism. It’s arguably the album’s most conceptually exposed position. What was the writing process like for that track: did you start from the concept or arrive at it through the music?
apaull: I came accross the vocal sample first and used it as the track’s foundation. I wrote the music around this sample (normally I do it the other way around). I found it interesting that a politician would compare a global body (World Economic Forum) to Columbian drug cartels, the point being that the espoused global organizations are cartels, in there own right. The pandemic made clear that this is the case.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2zoMok0136WpNuiulxOrXq
Club Furies: «True Though» suggests that sufficient fame functions as a shield. What’s interesting is that the track doesn’t sound like furious critique — it sounds more like resignation. Is that emotional ambiguity deliberate, or is it what came out?
apaull: My song writing is about providing a perspective, without the proselytizing that fury might evoke. I create these track perspectives to be there subliminally, that is you will only hear them if you listen deeply and far away from the club. “True Though” is about how Canada’s now former prime minister could not remember how many times he had donned ‘black face’, was somehow not cancelled and was still able to ascend this high office. While I’m a firm believer in redemption, I doubt that other politicians would have received this benefit of the doubt.
Club Furies: You close the album with «Altamont Joy,» which ends on «You’re gonna look real crazy, being on the other side of that line.» That line can be read as a warning, a statement of fact, or an irony. Did you want it to be all three at once?
apaull: The sample, in question, was delivered, by the speaker, as an omimous warning. It presents two perspectives, the speaker’s and the other, across some imaginary dotted line into a philosophical ‘no mans land’. The point of the track is that we cannot function with this level of polarization because the ability to discuss and reach consensus is lost.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/gunfactor-demo
Club Furies: Bringing in Al Diaz for the title lettering places the record in a visual conversation with eighties street art and everything that history implies. How did you come to him, and what did you want that choice to communicate?
apaull: I met him through my friend and artist, Jason Maclean, on one of my trips to New York, and was mesmerized by his history and works. I was quite taken by his lettering (assembled from New York Metropolitan Transit Authority posters). For the purposes of creating visual artistic continuity between my releases I thought this lettering would work well.
Club Furies: Every track on the album has a remix. That’s a structural decision, not an accessory one. What interests you about the dialogue between your version and another artist’s reinterpretation? Are there tracks where that tension feels particularly generative?
apaull: I made a decision, early on, to release on my own label because I was new, wanted full control of my music and didn’t think the slog of attracting label interest was a good use of my time. Working with remixers was a good alternative to labels. I work with remixers for two reasons: 1. To have them create more danceable and club friendly versions of a track; and 2. To introduce my music to their audiences. The bonus is that I have been able to work with artists who I respect and admire, and learn from them.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/22/cfp-apaull-king-dome-pyrame-frr034/
Club Furies: Your music operates in a space where peak time and after-hours aren’t opposites but continuities. That implies a certain resistance to the kind of specialization the market tends to reward. How do you think about that position in relation to how electronic music circulates today?
apaull: I see my music as art. While notionally it fits into the techno genre, I spend no time trying to get it to fit what is being played in clubs. While I enjoy club music, I see what is produced as being derivitive more than specialization. Clubgoers enjoy this musical continuity and for producers it can be a pathway to success. There is nothing wrong with that. I work diligently to create a sound, that is grounded but unique, and then work even harder to find the right audience. My work with club friendly remixers, as described above, is an invitation to their audience to become part of mine. Over time, what I produce will continue to work its way into clubs and other venues.
Club Furies: Furnace Room Recordings is now thirty-six releases in. What does running your own label mean for a project like yours? Does the autonomy change what you’re willing to sign off on?
apaull: The label means I get to release what I want and build a solid catalog that I control. It is a platform that now allows me to present my music to potential labels, remixers and venues and work to attract their interest. My goal is to write and professionally produce interesting tracks. I only sign off on and release tracks after my team has given their stamp of approval.
Club Furies: If the album asks «do you have the gunfactor?» — what’s your answer?
apaull: Ultimately, that is for others to decide, but, to save them some time I would say, YES.
Gunfactor is not a comfortable record, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a work that observes, with clinical detachment, the mechanisms by which the world rewards, ignores, or destroys people — and has the honesty not to offer solutions. In a circuit that often consumes itself in its own effervescence, apaull builds something slower and more durable: a body of work with edges, with conceptual texture, with the kind of coherence that can only come from someone who has been at this long enough not to need to impress anyone.
The question that titles the album stays open. Perhaps that is the only honest answer there is.
Gunfactor is released April 24, 2026 on Furnace Room Recordings (frr036), distributed by Superstition and available on all platforms. Remixes accompany the album as single and EP releases.
As a complement to the Gunfactor release, the inclusion of the Dina Summer Remix, set to be released on May 22, adds a significant layer of contemporary energy to the project. This remix not only reinterprets apaull’s sonic vision but also serves as a strategic bridge for listeners to further explore the creative process detailed in this interview.
artist: apaull
Album: Gunfactor
Release Format: Digital
Cat. No. frr036
Distribution: Superstition, all online platformsRelease Date: April 24, 2026
Pre Order FurnaceRoomRecords.lnk.to/Gunfactorapaull- writing, producing, mixing
Abe Duque- Executive Producer, masteringTracklist
1. Fang Mich 04:07
2. King Dome 05:20
3. Push the Button 06:10
4. Veilig 04:38
5. Finishing School 05:05
6. Gunfactor 05:34
7. Cartel 07:11
8. True Though 05:04
9. Payload 05:32
10. Altamont Joy 07:30apaull
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#Acid #apaull #CFPremiere #clubFuries #ClubFuriesPremiere #EBM #Electrónica #electro #Electronic #Electronica #FurnaceRoomRecordings #house #IndieDance #Premiere #premiereCF #PremiereClubFuries #techno -
SUPERCHUNK
Here's Where The Strings Come In
2011 U.S. reissueOh man.
Instant joy for me.
Another beloved record from my youth, and an absolute front-to-back classic.“Hyper Enough” is one of the great album openers ever, and from there, it’s just one great song after another.
“Detroit Has A Skyline”, “Silverleaf And Snowy Tears”, “Sunshine State”… I mean, cmon man….
It’s a near perfect record.#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #1990s #90s #90smusic #indie #alternative #superchunk
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CF Interview | apaull: «Do you have the gunfactor?» On Furnace Room Recordings
Some albums arrive with a concept so precisely articulated that the music barely needs defending. Gunfactor, apaull’s new record on Furnace Room Recordings, is one of them. Ten tracks navigating the pathways to fame — and infamy — across a sonic palette that moves from techno to synthwave by way of industrial, always with an economy of means that signals someone who knows exactly what they’re doing. The title lettering is by Al Diaz, a past collaborator of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photographs are by Dave Clarke. We spoke with apaull about the album, its contradictions, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Club Furies: The title operates simultaneously in two languages with meanings that don’t contradict each other but pull in different directions. Was that tension intentional from the start, or did the linguistic ambiguity emerge during the process and you decided to let it do its work?
apaull: The tension was intentional. The Dutch meaning came first, though. I was having coffee with a Dutch booking agent and she said you need produce good music but also have the “gunfactor”, this intangible ’it factor’ to become successful (and famous). The immediate question is how does one achieve that “it factor”. The theme developed from there. Either you have exceptional talent which leads to fame or you are somehow notorious, which leads to infamy.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/sets/gunfactor-8-tracks
Club Furies: The album draws an implicit distinction between earned fame and inflicted fame. Tracks like «Veilig» or «King Dome» seem to inhabit that grey zone where recognition arrives through circumstances no one would have chosen. How do you construct that difference narratively without collapsing into moral judgment?
apaull: Great question. While I have strong personal views I try to present things agnostically. I create perspectives in my tracks, that sometimes belie my personal views, but are really there to ask the listener what they think. It’s like listening to a painting. What do you hear and what do you think about it?
Club Furies: «Finishing School» summons something from another era that, by your own notes, «might still hold true today.» What strikes you as more unsettling: that those ideas persist, or that we still have to keep saying so?
apaull: “Finishing School” is a tongue in cheek examination of societal structure. In previous eras, roles were more clearly defined than they are today, if not over the top rigid. Today we find ourselves in jello, where structure has been systematically removed. We now live in an open concept society, if not over the top lax. “Finishing School’s” light hearted question is do we need some of that structure back.
Club Furies: The album has very specific geographies: Berlin in January, Detroit, New York implicit in «Veilig.» Do those physical contexts affect the compositional process technically — in the sound, the tempo, the processing — or do they function more as states of mind?
apaull: Both. I absorb where I am and this influences my state of mind and how I write. I write music almost continually and love writing in hotel rooms. For instance, the album track “Fang Mich” (Catch Me) was written and produced in Berlin. It captures the vibes I soaked in from the winter weather, Tresor & Berghain techno forays, a cold and jet lag. I live two hours from Detroit, the birthplace of techno, and go there for Movement each year. Detroit techno is pretty straight ahead but with indelible flashes of house. It is warmer than Berlin techno. The track “Veilig” (Safe) was written about something that happened in New York. I have been there many times and carry the vibe of this ‘infinite city’ with me.
Club Furies: «Cartel» proposes a kind of inverse moral relativism. It’s arguably the album’s most conceptually exposed position. What was the writing process like for that track: did you start from the concept or arrive at it through the music?
apaull: I came accross the vocal sample first and used it as the track’s foundation. I wrote the music around this sample (normally I do it the other way around). I found it interesting that a politician would compare a global body (World Economic Forum) to Columbian drug cartels, the point being that the espoused global organizations are cartels, in there own right. The pandemic made clear that this is the case.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2zoMok0136WpNuiulxOrXq
Club Furies: «True Though» suggests that sufficient fame functions as a shield. What’s interesting is that the track doesn’t sound like furious critique — it sounds more like resignation. Is that emotional ambiguity deliberate, or is it what came out?
apaull: My song writing is about providing a perspective, without the proselytizing that fury might evoke. I create these track perspectives to be there subliminally, that is you will only hear them if you listen deeply and far away from the club. “True Though” is about how Canada’s now former prime minister could not remember how many times he had donned ‘black face’, was somehow not cancelled and was still able to ascend this high office. While I’m a firm believer in redemption, I doubt that other politicians would have received this benefit of the doubt.
Club Furies: You close the album with «Altamont Joy,» which ends on «You’re gonna look real crazy, being on the other side of that line.» That line can be read as a warning, a statement of fact, or an irony. Did you want it to be all three at once?
apaull: The sample, in question, was delivered, by the speaker, as an omimous warning. It presents two perspectives, the speaker’s and the other, across some imaginary dotted line into a philosophical ‘no mans land’. The point of the track is that we cannot function with this level of polarization because the ability to discuss and reach consensus is lost.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/gunfactor-demo
Club Furies: Bringing in Al Diaz for the title lettering places the record in a visual conversation with eighties street art and everything that history implies. How did you come to him, and what did you want that choice to communicate?
apaull: I met him through my friend and artist, Jason Maclean, on one of my trips to New York, and was mesmerized by his history and works. I was quite taken by his lettering (assembled from New York Metropolitan Transit Authority posters). For the purposes of creating visual artistic continuity between my releases I thought this lettering would work well.
Club Furies: Every track on the album has a remix. That’s a structural decision, not an accessory one. What interests you about the dialogue between your version and another artist’s reinterpretation? Are there tracks where that tension feels particularly generative?
apaull: I made a decision, early on, to release on my own label because I was new, wanted full control of my music and didn’t think the slog of attracting label interest was a good use of my time. Working with remixers was a good alternative to labels. I work with remixers for two reasons: 1. To have them create more danceable and club friendly versions of a track; and 2. To introduce my music to their audiences. The bonus is that I have been able to work with artists who I respect and admire, and learn from them.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/22/cfp-apaull-king-dome-pyrame-frr034/
Club Furies: Your music operates in a space where peak time and after-hours aren’t opposites but continuities. That implies a certain resistance to the kind of specialization the market tends to reward. How do you think about that position in relation to how electronic music circulates today?
apaull: I see my music as art. While notionally it fits into the techno genre, I spend no time trying to get it to fit what is being played in clubs. While I enjoy club music, I see what is produced as being derivitive more than specialization. Clubgoers enjoy this musical continuity and for producers it can be a pathway to success. There is nothing wrong with that. I work diligently to create a sound, that is grounded but unique, and then work even harder to find the right audience. My work with club friendly remixers, as described above, is an invitation to their audience to become part of mine. Over time, what I produce will continue to work its way into clubs and other venues.
Club Furies: Furnace Room Recordings is now thirty-six releases in. What does running your own label mean for a project like yours? Does the autonomy change what you’re willing to sign off on?
apaull: The label means I get to release what I want and build a solid catalog that I control. It is a platform that now allows me to present my music to potential labels, remixers and venues and work to attract their interest. My goal is to write and professionally produce interesting tracks. I only sign off on and release tracks after my team has given their stamp of approval.
Club Furies: If the album asks «do you have the gunfactor?» — what’s your answer?
apaull: Ultimately, that is for others to decide, but, to save them some time I would say, YES.
Gunfactor is not a comfortable record, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a work that observes, with clinical detachment, the mechanisms by which the world rewards, ignores, or destroys people — and has the honesty not to offer solutions. In a circuit that often consumes itself in its own effervescence, apaull builds something slower and more durable: a body of work with edges, with conceptual texture, with the kind of coherence that can only come from someone who has been at this long enough not to need to impress anyone.
The question that titles the album stays open. Perhaps that is the only honest answer there is.
Gunfactor is released April 24, 2026 on Furnace Room Recordings (frr036), distributed by Superstition and available on all platforms. Remixes accompany the album as single and EP releases.
As a complement to the Gunfactor release, the inclusion of the Dina Summer Remix, set to be released on May 22, adds a significant layer of contemporary energy to the project. This remix not only reinterprets apaull’s sonic vision but also serves as a strategic bridge for listeners to further explore the creative process detailed in this interview.
artist: apaull
Album: Gunfactor
Release Format: Digital
Cat. No. frr036
Distribution: Superstition, all online platformsRelease Date: April 24, 2026
Pre Order FurnaceRoomRecords.lnk.to/Gunfactorapaull- writing, producing, mixing
Abe Duque- Executive Producer, masteringTracklist
1. Fang Mich 04:07
2. King Dome 05:20
3. Push the Button 06:10
4. Veilig 04:38
5. Finishing School 05:05
6. Gunfactor 05:34
7. Cartel 07:11
8. True Though 05:04
9. Payload 05:32
10. Altamont Joy 07:30apaull
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CF Interview | apaull: «Do you have the gunfactor?» On Furnace Room Recordings
Some albums arrive with a concept so precisely articulated that the music barely needs defending. Gunfactor, apaull’s new record on Furnace Room Recordings, is one of them. Ten tracks navigating the pathways to fame — and infamy — across a sonic palette that moves from techno to synthwave by way of industrial, always with an economy of means that signals someone who knows exactly what they’re doing. The title lettering is by Al Diaz, a past collaborator of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photographs are by Dave Clarke. We spoke with apaull about the album, its contradictions, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Club Furies: The title operates simultaneously in two languages with meanings that don’t contradict each other but pull in different directions. Was that tension intentional from the start, or did the linguistic ambiguity emerge during the process and you decided to let it do its work?
apaull: The tension was intentional. The Dutch meaning came first, though. I was having coffee with a Dutch booking agent and she said you need produce good music but also have the “gunfactor”, this intangible ’it factor’ to become successful (and famous). The immediate question is how does one achieve that “it factor”. The theme developed from there. Either you have exceptional talent which leads to fame or you are somehow notorious, which leads to infamy.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/sets/gunfactor-8-tracks
Club Furies: The album draws an implicit distinction between earned fame and inflicted fame. Tracks like «Veilig» or «King Dome» seem to inhabit that grey zone where recognition arrives through circumstances no one would have chosen. How do you construct that difference narratively without collapsing into moral judgment?
apaull: Great question. While I have strong personal views I try to present things agnostically. I create perspectives in my tracks, that sometimes belie my personal views, but are really there to ask the listener what they think. It’s like listening to a painting. What do you hear and what do you think about it?
Club Furies: «Finishing School» summons something from another era that, by your own notes, «might still hold true today.» What strikes you as more unsettling: that those ideas persist, or that we still have to keep saying so?
apaull: “Finishing School” is a tongue in cheek examination of societal structure. In previous eras, roles were more clearly defined than they are today, if not over the top rigid. Today we find ourselves in jello, where structure has been systematically removed. We now live in an open concept society, if not over the top lax. “Finishing School’s” light hearted question is do we need some of that structure back.
Club Furies: The album has very specific geographies: Berlin in January, Detroit, New York implicit in «Veilig.» Do those physical contexts affect the compositional process technically — in the sound, the tempo, the processing — or do they function more as states of mind?
apaull: Both. I absorb where I am and this influences my state of mind and how I write. I write music almost continually and love writing in hotel rooms. For instance, the album track “Fang Mich” (Catch Me) was written and produced in Berlin. It captures the vibes I soaked in from the winter weather, Tresor & Berghain techno forays, a cold and jet lag. I live two hours from Detroit, the birthplace of techno, and go there for Movement each year. Detroit techno is pretty straight ahead but with indelible flashes of house. It is warmer than Berlin techno. The track “Veilig” (Safe) was written about something that happened in New York. I have been there many times and carry the vibe of this ‘infinite city’ with me.
Club Furies: «Cartel» proposes a kind of inverse moral relativism. It’s arguably the album’s most conceptually exposed position. What was the writing process like for that track: did you start from the concept or arrive at it through the music?
apaull: I came accross the vocal sample first and used it as the track’s foundation. I wrote the music around this sample (normally I do it the other way around). I found it interesting that a politician would compare a global body (World Economic Forum) to Columbian drug cartels, the point being that the espoused global organizations are cartels, in there own right. The pandemic made clear that this is the case.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2zoMok0136WpNuiulxOrXq
Club Furies: «True Though» suggests that sufficient fame functions as a shield. What’s interesting is that the track doesn’t sound like furious critique — it sounds more like resignation. Is that emotional ambiguity deliberate, or is it what came out?
apaull: My song writing is about providing a perspective, without the proselytizing that fury might evoke. I create these track perspectives to be there subliminally, that is you will only hear them if you listen deeply and far away from the club. “True Though” is about how Canada’s now former prime minister could not remember how many times he had donned ‘black face’, was somehow not cancelled and was still able to ascend this high office. While I’m a firm believer in redemption, I doubt that other politicians would have received this benefit of the doubt.
Club Furies: You close the album with «Altamont Joy,» which ends on «You’re gonna look real crazy, being on the other side of that line.» That line can be read as a warning, a statement of fact, or an irony. Did you want it to be all three at once?
apaull: The sample, in question, was delivered, by the speaker, as an omimous warning. It presents two perspectives, the speaker’s and the other, across some imaginary dotted line into a philosophical ‘no mans land’. The point of the track is that we cannot function with this level of polarization because the ability to discuss and reach consensus is lost.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/gunfactor-demo
Club Furies: Bringing in Al Diaz for the title lettering places the record in a visual conversation with eighties street art and everything that history implies. How did you come to him, and what did you want that choice to communicate?
apaull: I met him through my friend and artist, Jason Maclean, on one of my trips to New York, and was mesmerized by his history and works. I was quite taken by his lettering (assembled from New York Metropolitan Transit Authority posters). For the purposes of creating visual artistic continuity between my releases I thought this lettering would work well.
Club Furies: Every track on the album has a remix. That’s a structural decision, not an accessory one. What interests you about the dialogue between your version and another artist’s reinterpretation? Are there tracks where that tension feels particularly generative?
apaull: I made a decision, early on, to release on my own label because I was new, wanted full control of my music and didn’t think the slog of attracting label interest was a good use of my time. Working with remixers was a good alternative to labels. I work with remixers for two reasons: 1. To have them create more danceable and club friendly versions of a track; and 2. To introduce my music to their audiences. The bonus is that I have been able to work with artists who I respect and admire, and learn from them.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/22/cfp-apaull-king-dome-pyrame-frr034/
Club Furies: Your music operates in a space where peak time and after-hours aren’t opposites but continuities. That implies a certain resistance to the kind of specialization the market tends to reward. How do you think about that position in relation to how electronic music circulates today?
apaull: I see my music as art. While notionally it fits into the techno genre, I spend no time trying to get it to fit what is being played in clubs. While I enjoy club music, I see what is produced as being derivitive more than specialization. Clubgoers enjoy this musical continuity and for producers it can be a pathway to success. There is nothing wrong with that. I work diligently to create a sound, that is grounded but unique, and then work even harder to find the right audience. My work with club friendly remixers, as described above, is an invitation to their audience to become part of mine. Over time, what I produce will continue to work its way into clubs and other venues.
Club Furies: Furnace Room Recordings is now thirty-six releases in. What does running your own label mean for a project like yours? Does the autonomy change what you’re willing to sign off on?
apaull: The label means I get to release what I want and build a solid catalog that I control. It is a platform that now allows me to present my music to potential labels, remixers and venues and work to attract their interest. My goal is to write and professionally produce interesting tracks. I only sign off on and release tracks after my team has given their stamp of approval.
Club Furies: If the album asks «do you have the gunfactor?» — what’s your answer?
apaull: Ultimately, that is for others to decide, but, to save them some time I would say, YES.
Gunfactor is not a comfortable record, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a work that observes, with clinical detachment, the mechanisms by which the world rewards, ignores, or destroys people — and has the honesty not to offer solutions. In a circuit that often consumes itself in its own effervescence, apaull builds something slower and more durable: a body of work with edges, with conceptual texture, with the kind of coherence that can only come from someone who has been at this long enough not to need to impress anyone.
The question that titles the album stays open. Perhaps that is the only honest answer there is.
Gunfactor is released April 24, 2026 on Furnace Room Recordings (frr036), distributed by Superstition and available on all platforms. Remixes accompany the album as single and EP releases.
As a complement to the Gunfactor release, the inclusion of the Dina Summer Remix, set to be released on May 22, adds a significant layer of contemporary energy to the project. This remix not only reinterprets apaull’s sonic vision but also serves as a strategic bridge for listeners to further explore the creative process detailed in this interview.
artist: apaull
Album: Gunfactor
Release Format: Digital
Cat. No. frr036
Distribution: Superstition, all online platformsRelease Date: April 24, 2026
Pre Order FurnaceRoomRecords.lnk.to/Gunfactorapaull- writing, producing, mixing
Abe Duque- Executive Producer, masteringTracklist
1. Fang Mich 04:07
2. King Dome 05:20
3. Push the Button 06:10
4. Veilig 04:38
5. Finishing School 05:05
6. Gunfactor 05:34
7. Cartel 07:11
8. True Though 05:04
9. Payload 05:32
10. Altamont Joy 07:30apaull
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#Acid #apaull #CFPremiere #clubFuries #ClubFuriesPremiere #EBM #Electrónica #electro #Electronic #Electronica #FurnaceRoomRecordings #house #IndieDance #Premiere #premiereCF #PremiereClubFuries #techno -
CF Interview | apaull: «Do you have the gunfactor?» On Furnace Room Recordings
Some albums arrive with a concept so precisely articulated that the music barely needs defending. Gunfactor, apaull’s new record on Furnace Room Recordings, is one of them. Ten tracks navigating the pathways to fame — and infamy — across a sonic palette that moves from techno to synthwave by way of industrial, always with an economy of means that signals someone who knows exactly what they’re doing. The title lettering is by Al Diaz, a past collaborator of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photographs are by Dave Clarke. We spoke with apaull about the album, its contradictions, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Club Furies: The title operates simultaneously in two languages with meanings that don’t contradict each other but pull in different directions. Was that tension intentional from the start, or did the linguistic ambiguity emerge during the process and you decided to let it do its work?
apaull: The tension was intentional. The Dutch meaning came first, though. I was having coffee with a Dutch booking agent and she said you need produce good music but also have the “gunfactor”, this intangible ’it factor’ to become successful (and famous). The immediate question is how does one achieve that “it factor”. The theme developed from there. Either you have exceptional talent which leads to fame or you are somehow notorious, which leads to infamy.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/sets/gunfactor-8-tracks
Club Furies: The album draws an implicit distinction between earned fame and inflicted fame. Tracks like «Veilig» or «King Dome» seem to inhabit that grey zone where recognition arrives through circumstances no one would have chosen. How do you construct that difference narratively without collapsing into moral judgment?
apaull: Great question. While I have strong personal views I try to present things agnostically. I create perspectives in my tracks, that sometimes belie my personal views, but are really there to ask the listener what they think. It’s like listening to a painting. What do you hear and what do you think about it?
Club Furies: «Finishing School» summons something from another era that, by your own notes, «might still hold true today.» What strikes you as more unsettling: that those ideas persist, or that we still have to keep saying so?
apaull: “Finishing School” is a tongue in cheek examination of societal structure. In previous eras, roles were more clearly defined than they are today, if not over the top rigid. Today we find ourselves in jello, where structure has been systematically removed. We now live in an open concept society, if not over the top lax. “Finishing School’s” light hearted question is do we need some of that structure back.
Club Furies: The album has very specific geographies: Berlin in January, Detroit, New York implicit in «Veilig.» Do those physical contexts affect the compositional process technically — in the sound, the tempo, the processing — or do they function more as states of mind?
apaull: Both. I absorb where I am and this influences my state of mind and how I write. I write music almost continually and love writing in hotel rooms. For instance, the album track “Fang Mich” (Catch Me) was written and produced in Berlin. It captures the vibes I soaked in from the winter weather, Tresor & Berghain techno forays, a cold and jet lag. I live two hours from Detroit, the birthplace of techno, and go there for Movement each year. Detroit techno is pretty straight ahead but with indelible flashes of house. It is warmer than Berlin techno. The track “Veilig” (Safe) was written about something that happened in New York. I have been there many times and carry the vibe of this ‘infinite city’ with me.
Club Furies: «Cartel» proposes a kind of inverse moral relativism. It’s arguably the album’s most conceptually exposed position. What was the writing process like for that track: did you start from the concept or arrive at it through the music?
apaull: I came accross the vocal sample first and used it as the track’s foundation. I wrote the music around this sample (normally I do it the other way around). I found it interesting that a politician would compare a global body (World Economic Forum) to Columbian drug cartels, the point being that the espoused global organizations are cartels, in there own right. The pandemic made clear that this is the case.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2zoMok0136WpNuiulxOrXq
Club Furies: «True Though» suggests that sufficient fame functions as a shield. What’s interesting is that the track doesn’t sound like furious critique — it sounds more like resignation. Is that emotional ambiguity deliberate, or is it what came out?
apaull: My song writing is about providing a perspective, without the proselytizing that fury might evoke. I create these track perspectives to be there subliminally, that is you will only hear them if you listen deeply and far away from the club. “True Though” is about how Canada’s now former prime minister could not remember how many times he had donned ‘black face’, was somehow not cancelled and was still able to ascend this high office. While I’m a firm believer in redemption, I doubt that other politicians would have received this benefit of the doubt.
Club Furies: You close the album with «Altamont Joy,» which ends on «You’re gonna look real crazy, being on the other side of that line.» That line can be read as a warning, a statement of fact, or an irony. Did you want it to be all three at once?
apaull: The sample, in question, was delivered, by the speaker, as an omimous warning. It presents two perspectives, the speaker’s and the other, across some imaginary dotted line into a philosophical ‘no mans land’. The point of the track is that we cannot function with this level of polarization because the ability to discuss and reach consensus is lost.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/gunfactor-demo
Club Furies: Bringing in Al Diaz for the title lettering places the record in a visual conversation with eighties street art and everything that history implies. How did you come to him, and what did you want that choice to communicate?
apaull: I met him through my friend and artist, Jason Maclean, on one of my trips to New York, and was mesmerized by his history and works. I was quite taken by his lettering (assembled from New York Metropolitan Transit Authority posters). For the purposes of creating visual artistic continuity between my releases I thought this lettering would work well.
Club Furies: Every track on the album has a remix. That’s a structural decision, not an accessory one. What interests you about the dialogue between your version and another artist’s reinterpretation? Are there tracks where that tension feels particularly generative?
apaull: I made a decision, early on, to release on my own label because I was new, wanted full control of my music and didn’t think the slog of attracting label interest was a good use of my time. Working with remixers was a good alternative to labels. I work with remixers for two reasons: 1. To have them create more danceable and club friendly versions of a track; and 2. To introduce my music to their audiences. The bonus is that I have been able to work with artists who I respect and admire, and learn from them.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/22/cfp-apaull-king-dome-pyrame-frr034/
Club Furies: Your music operates in a space where peak time and after-hours aren’t opposites but continuities. That implies a certain resistance to the kind of specialization the market tends to reward. How do you think about that position in relation to how electronic music circulates today?
apaull: I see my music as art. While notionally it fits into the techno genre, I spend no time trying to get it to fit what is being played in clubs. While I enjoy club music, I see what is produced as being derivitive more than specialization. Clubgoers enjoy this musical continuity and for producers it can be a pathway to success. There is nothing wrong with that. I work diligently to create a sound, that is grounded but unique, and then work even harder to find the right audience. My work with club friendly remixers, as described above, is an invitation to their audience to become part of mine. Over time, what I produce will continue to work its way into clubs and other venues.
Club Furies: Furnace Room Recordings is now thirty-six releases in. What does running your own label mean for a project like yours? Does the autonomy change what you’re willing to sign off on?
apaull: The label means I get to release what I want and build a solid catalog that I control. It is a platform that now allows me to present my music to potential labels, remixers and venues and work to attract their interest. My goal is to write and professionally produce interesting tracks. I only sign off on and release tracks after my team has given their stamp of approval.
Club Furies: If the album asks «do you have the gunfactor?» — what’s your answer?
apaull: Ultimately, that is for others to decide, but, to save them some time I would say, YES.
Gunfactor is not a comfortable record, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a work that observes, with clinical detachment, the mechanisms by which the world rewards, ignores, or destroys people — and has the honesty not to offer solutions. In a circuit that often consumes itself in its own effervescence, apaull builds something slower and more durable: a body of work with edges, with conceptual texture, with the kind of coherence that can only come from someone who has been at this long enough not to need to impress anyone.
The question that titles the album stays open. Perhaps that is the only honest answer there is.
Gunfactor is released April 24, 2026 on Furnace Room Recordings (frr036), distributed by Superstition and available on all platforms. Remixes accompany the album as single and EP releases.
As a complement to the Gunfactor release, the inclusion of the Dina Summer Remix, set to be released on May 22, adds a significant layer of contemporary energy to the project. This remix not only reinterprets apaull’s sonic vision but also serves as a strategic bridge for listeners to further explore the creative process detailed in this interview.
artist: apaull
Album: Gunfactor
Release Format: Digital
Cat. No. frr036
Distribution: Superstition, all online platformsRelease Date: April 24, 2026
Pre Order FurnaceRoomRecords.lnk.to/Gunfactorapaull- writing, producing, mixing
Abe Duque- Executive Producer, masteringTracklist
1. Fang Mich 04:07
2. King Dome 05:20
3. Push the Button 06:10
4. Veilig 04:38
5. Finishing School 05:05
6. Gunfactor 05:34
7. Cartel 07:11
8. True Though 05:04
9. Payload 05:32
10. Altamont Joy 07:30apaull
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Club Furies
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#Acid #apaull #CFPremiere #clubFuries #ClubFuriesPremiere #EBM #Electrónica #electro #Electronic #Electronica #FurnaceRoomRecordings #house #IndieDance #Premiere #premiereCF #PremiereClubFuries #techno -
CF Interview | apaull: «Do you have the gunfactor?» On Furnace Room Recordings
Some albums arrive with a concept so precisely articulated that the music barely needs defending. Gunfactor, apaull’s new record on Furnace Room Recordings, is one of them. Ten tracks navigating the pathways to fame — and infamy — across a sonic palette that moves from techno to synthwave by way of industrial, always with an economy of means that signals someone who knows exactly what they’re doing. The title lettering is by Al Diaz, a past collaborator of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photographs are by Dave Clarke. We spoke with apaull about the album, its contradictions, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Club Furies: The title operates simultaneously in two languages with meanings that don’t contradict each other but pull in different directions. Was that tension intentional from the start, or did the linguistic ambiguity emerge during the process and you decided to let it do its work?
apaull: The tension was intentional. The Dutch meaning came first, though. I was having coffee with a Dutch booking agent and she said you need produce good music but also have the “gunfactor”, this intangible ’it factor’ to become successful (and famous). The immediate question is how does one achieve that “it factor”. The theme developed from there. Either you have exceptional talent which leads to fame or you are somehow notorious, which leads to infamy.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/sets/gunfactor-8-tracks
Club Furies: The album draws an implicit distinction between earned fame and inflicted fame. Tracks like «Veilig» or «King Dome» seem to inhabit that grey zone where recognition arrives through circumstances no one would have chosen. How do you construct that difference narratively without collapsing into moral judgment?
apaull: Great question. While I have strong personal views I try to present things agnostically. I create perspectives in my tracks, that sometimes belie my personal views, but are really there to ask the listener what they think. It’s like listening to a painting. What do you hear and what do you think about it?
Club Furies: «Finishing School» summons something from another era that, by your own notes, «might still hold true today.» What strikes you as more unsettling: that those ideas persist, or that we still have to keep saying so?
apaull: “Finishing School” is a tongue in cheek examination of societal structure. In previous eras, roles were more clearly defined than they are today, if not over the top rigid. Today we find ourselves in jello, where structure has been systematically removed. We now live in an open concept society, if not over the top lax. “Finishing School’s” light hearted question is do we need some of that structure back.
Club Furies: The album has very specific geographies: Berlin in January, Detroit, New York implicit in «Veilig.» Do those physical contexts affect the compositional process technically — in the sound, the tempo, the processing — or do they function more as states of mind?
apaull: Both. I absorb where I am and this influences my state of mind and how I write. I write music almost continually and love writing in hotel rooms. For instance, the album track “Fang Mich” (Catch Me) was written and produced in Berlin. It captures the vibes I soaked in from the winter weather, Tresor & Berghain techno forays, a cold and jet lag. I live two hours from Detroit, the birthplace of techno, and go there for Movement each year. Detroit techno is pretty straight ahead but with indelible flashes of house. It is warmer than Berlin techno. The track “Veilig” (Safe) was written about something that happened in New York. I have been there many times and carry the vibe of this ‘infinite city’ with me.
Club Furies: «Cartel» proposes a kind of inverse moral relativism. It’s arguably the album’s most conceptually exposed position. What was the writing process like for that track: did you start from the concept or arrive at it through the music?
apaull: I came accross the vocal sample first and used it as the track’s foundation. I wrote the music around this sample (normally I do it the other way around). I found it interesting that a politician would compare a global body (World Economic Forum) to Columbian drug cartels, the point being that the espoused global organizations are cartels, in there own right. The pandemic made clear that this is the case.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2zoMok0136WpNuiulxOrXq
Club Furies: «True Though» suggests that sufficient fame functions as a shield. What’s interesting is that the track doesn’t sound like furious critique — it sounds more like resignation. Is that emotional ambiguity deliberate, or is it what came out?
apaull: My song writing is about providing a perspective, without the proselytizing that fury might evoke. I create these track perspectives to be there subliminally, that is you will only hear them if you listen deeply and far away from the club. “True Though” is about how Canada’s now former prime minister could not remember how many times he had donned ‘black face’, was somehow not cancelled and was still able to ascend this high office. While I’m a firm believer in redemption, I doubt that other politicians would have received this benefit of the doubt.
Club Furies: You close the album with «Altamont Joy,» which ends on «You’re gonna look real crazy, being on the other side of that line.» That line can be read as a warning, a statement of fact, or an irony. Did you want it to be all three at once?
apaull: The sample, in question, was delivered, by the speaker, as an omimous warning. It presents two perspectives, the speaker’s and the other, across some imaginary dotted line into a philosophical ‘no mans land’. The point of the track is that we cannot function with this level of polarization because the ability to discuss and reach consensus is lost.
https://soundcloud.com/apaull_music/gunfactor-demo
Club Furies: Bringing in Al Diaz for the title lettering places the record in a visual conversation with eighties street art and everything that history implies. How did you come to him, and what did you want that choice to communicate?
apaull: I met him through my friend and artist, Jason Maclean, on one of my trips to New York, and was mesmerized by his history and works. I was quite taken by his lettering (assembled from New York Metropolitan Transit Authority posters). For the purposes of creating visual artistic continuity between my releases I thought this lettering would work well.
Club Furies: Every track on the album has a remix. That’s a structural decision, not an accessory one. What interests you about the dialogue between your version and another artist’s reinterpretation? Are there tracks where that tension feels particularly generative?
apaull: I made a decision, early on, to release on my own label because I was new, wanted full control of my music and didn’t think the slog of attracting label interest was a good use of my time. Working with remixers was a good alternative to labels. I work with remixers for two reasons: 1. To have them create more danceable and club friendly versions of a track; and 2. To introduce my music to their audiences. The bonus is that I have been able to work with artists who I respect and admire, and learn from them.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/22/cfp-apaull-king-dome-pyrame-frr034/
Club Furies: Your music operates in a space where peak time and after-hours aren’t opposites but continuities. That implies a certain resistance to the kind of specialization the market tends to reward. How do you think about that position in relation to how electronic music circulates today?
apaull: I see my music as art. While notionally it fits into the techno genre, I spend no time trying to get it to fit what is being played in clubs. While I enjoy club music, I see what is produced as being derivitive more than specialization. Clubgoers enjoy this musical continuity and for producers it can be a pathway to success. There is nothing wrong with that. I work diligently to create a sound, that is grounded but unique, and then work even harder to find the right audience. My work with club friendly remixers, as described above, is an invitation to their audience to become part of mine. Over time, what I produce will continue to work its way into clubs and other venues.
Club Furies: Furnace Room Recordings is now thirty-six releases in. What does running your own label mean for a project like yours? Does the autonomy change what you’re willing to sign off on?
apaull: The label means I get to release what I want and build a solid catalog that I control. It is a platform that now allows me to present my music to potential labels, remixers and venues and work to attract their interest. My goal is to write and professionally produce interesting tracks. I only sign off on and release tracks after my team has given their stamp of approval.
Club Furies: If the album asks «do you have the gunfactor?» — what’s your answer?
apaull: Ultimately, that is for others to decide, but, to save them some time I would say, YES.
Gunfactor is not a comfortable record, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a work that observes, with clinical detachment, the mechanisms by which the world rewards, ignores, or destroys people — and has the honesty not to offer solutions. In a circuit that often consumes itself in its own effervescence, apaull builds something slower and more durable: a body of work with edges, with conceptual texture, with the kind of coherence that can only come from someone who has been at this long enough not to need to impress anyone.
The question that titles the album stays open. Perhaps that is the only honest answer there is.
Gunfactor is released April 24, 2026 on Furnace Room Recordings (frr036), distributed by Superstition and available on all platforms. Remixes accompany the album as single and EP releases.
As a complement to the Gunfactor release, the inclusion of the Dina Summer Remix, set to be released on May 22, adds a significant layer of contemporary energy to the project. This remix not only reinterprets apaull’s sonic vision but also serves as a strategic bridge for listeners to further explore the creative process detailed in this interview.
artist: apaull
Album: Gunfactor
Release Format: Digital
Cat. No. frr036
Distribution: Superstition, all online platformsRelease Date: April 24, 2026
Pre Order FurnaceRoomRecords.lnk.to/Gunfactorapaull- writing, producing, mixing
Abe Duque- Executive Producer, masteringTracklist
1. Fang Mich 04:07
2. King Dome 05:20
3. Push the Button 06:10
4. Veilig 04:38
5. Finishing School 05:05
6. Gunfactor 05:34
7. Cartel 07:11
8. True Though 05:04
9. Payload 05:32
10. Altamont Joy 07:30apaull
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Antéchrist US - Finalement, par ses monumentales conneries produisant toujours l'effet inverse de ce qu'il en attend, Trump est parti pour devenir le meilleur, le plus sûr et le plus efficace, des agents de la transition énergétique mais ce pour un montant qui sera faramineux en dégâts économiques partout sur la planète, US inclus.
Comme toujours, il démontre être le mauvais gestionnaire qu'il a toujours été mais cette fois il le fait avec toute la puissance des États-Unis. Ça va saigner : "Les limites de la croissance", finalement, ça ne bascule pas en 2030 mais en 2026 grâce aux MAGAs et aux nazionistes.
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Traduction de https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/oil-crisis-iran-electric-solar.html
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New York Times - OpinionLa guerre de POTUS ( = Président Of The United States) contre l'Iran entraîne déjà des rationnements de carburant et des perturbations majeures dans de nombreux pays et ça va s'aggraver dès que les dernières livraisons (de pétrole) qui ont pu passer le détroit (d'Ormuz) commenceront à arriver cette semaine, rapporte le NYT. J'admire (mais ne partage pas) l'optimisme de cette histoire de pouvoir qu'aurait cette guerre iranienne à accélérer au niveau mondial l'adoption des énergies renouvelables .
"Le Sri Lanka et le Myanmar rationnent le carburant. Les Philippines ont institué des semaines de travail de 4 jours pour préserver l'essence et l'électricité. Le Bangladesh a brièvement fermé ses universités pour réserver l'électricité aux foyers et aux entreprises. À travers toute l'Inde, les familles et les restaurants se sont mis à cuisiner au feu de bois par manque de gaz. Les compagnies aériennes annulent les vols."
"Aussi pénible qu'ait pu être la première phase de la crise énergétique déclenchée par la guerre d'Iran, la suite s'annonce pire. Cette semaine les dernières livraisons de pétrole et de gaz naturel liquéfié (GPL) ayant pu franchir le détroit d'Ormuz avant sa fermeture devraient arriver en Asie. Les derniers pétroliers pour l'Europe devraient arriver avant mi-avril. Ensuite, les réserves d’essence, de gazole, de GPL et de gaz naturel vont s’effondrer. Si la guerre perdure le prix du baril pourrait grimper jusqu'à 200 $."
M. Fatih Birol, directeur général de l'Agence Internationale de l'Énergie, a qualifié cette situation de "plus grande menace de l'histoire sur la sécurité énergétique mondiale", bien pire que la crise pétrolière de 1976, la pandémie de Covid-19 ou l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie en 2022. Ce conflit perturbe une importante partie du commerce mondial du pétrole et du gaz et il sera impossible d'en combler le déficit rapidement.
Des pays comme l'Inde, l'Indonésie et le Vietnam réagissent à la hausse des prix du gaz en augmentant leur consommation de charbon mais à long terme ce choc accélérera la transition vers des techniques plus propres, notamment en Asie et en Europe. Il s'agit de la première crise pétrolière où des alternatives propres au pétrole et au gaz – panneaux solaires, éoliennes, véhicules électriques et batteries – sont à la fois peu coûteuses et largement disponibles.
La pénurie de carburant a déjà incité les consommateurs à adopter ces techniques. Alors que les Philippines déclaraient l'état d'urgence énergétique nationale le 24 mars, les acheteurs de voitures de Manille se pressaient dans les concessions du constructeur automobile chinois BYD pour acheter des véhicules électriques. Les vendeurs et installateurs de panneaux solaires constatent une forte augmentation de la demande de la part des clients allemands. Les installations de pompes à chaleur sont en hausse en Grande-Bretagne. Les ventes de rickshaws électriques explosent au Pakistan. Les plaques à induction sont en rupture de stock chez les détaillants en ligne indiens. Au Vietnam, un conglomérat souhaiterait abandonner son projet de construction de la plus grande centrale électrique au gaz naturel liquéfié du pays et privilégier un projet d'énergies renouvelables et de stockage par batteries.
Pendant ce temps, la Chine, leader mondial de la production de batteries, va massivement profiter de tout ce choc pétrolier. Depuis le début de la guerre, la capitalisation boursière de chacune des trois plus grandes entreprises chinoises de batteries a augmenté d'environ 20 %, soit 70 milliards de dollars au total.
Évidemment, ici aux États-Unis, nous avons largement proclamé que nous allions continuer de produire des véhicules énergivores et oublier toutes les promesses d'investissement dans les véhicules électriques que nous avons faites.
Aux États-Unis les consommateurs eux aussi vont se précipiter sur les voitures BYD tant que les droits d'importation n'en rendent pas le prix prohibitif. La plupart des grands constructeurs de voitures des États-Unis s'intéressent sans trop y croire aux gens ne sourcillant pas devant une dépense de 60 000 $ (prix de base) pour une voiture neuve ou un camion neuf.
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