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Amnesia Scanner's third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator. Released by Pan records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group. Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter. With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist's hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet's work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work - artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language. Haimala and Kalliala say, "Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built," signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero's journey that merges deep-fried baroque wi...