
Release Date | 24/10/2025 |
Format | LP Colour |
Label | CASTLES IN SPACE |
Catalogue Number | CIS168LP |
Recorded between 2020- 2022 - Altered Fetes is a collection of deeply unique and ethereal heavy psychedelic electronic tracks made resourcefully with a short attention span, without a studio, without a home address for 10 months, with minimal equipment for maximal mind bending pleasure.
You could call it deep glistening. Altered fetes is A’Bears latest psyche -rhythmical journey- forging music made via altered neural pathways and oscillating brainwaves combining heavy and soft sounds, prog infused melodies, bitter sweet harmonics, perpetual polyrhythms, swirling synthesis, unexpected pulsating stabs of bass line chaos splashed with intense high hat clarity.
I created the album over a period of a time in my life where I was in complete and utter turmoil, nomadic despair and huge personal upheaval- I always knew that music was my drug, my rock, my anchor, my true tether.
When life falls apart and you land in unexpected places it’s really screamingly obvious the things that ground you and hold you together- music is an invisible force- a friendly guide of sorts that gives me this innate ability to lead me back a place of calm- or tear me completely out of my bones- but somewhere you can feel your feet still firmly planted on the ground.
I love that it also has the ability to take you to altered states of perception- when it all felt completely pear shaped- it’s either curl up in a ball or crank it up - I choose the crank option. To escape or to feel? It's a bit of both.
Which led me to altered fetes. This theme plays out strongly throughout the album. Music production was and very much still is my safe space- where I can fully lean in to it all without walls, rules or judgement.
Like a rock gathering moss- the tracks all accumulated from many live shows and gigs locally and internationally over the 3 years. Play it, perform it, love it, hate it, repeat it, play it, make it more, make it less, make it what it is.
Altered fetes is possibly A'Bear's most raw and cohesive album - shedding a refreshing genre bending light on the scene offering a different kind of dance music.
A play on words - an altered future or a strange new party? You decide!
Tracklist:
1. First Burst
2. Safe and Sound
3. Sex, Death and Rebirth
4. Entrippy
5. Chakra Check Up
6. A Psychic Weave
7. What Remains (Pure Belter Instrumental)