Xingu Hill is one of the various music projects of John Sellekaers (born 1973), a musician, mastering & sound engineer, and photographer. Sellakaers has released over 40 records on various labels and has toured extensively in Europe and North America. Recent projects include albums by Dead Hollywood Stars, Xingu Hill, The Missing Ensemble, Urawa, the soundtrack of an ARTE Television documentary, and collaborations with the author Brian Evenson. He also operates an audio mastering studio; about 600 productions have been mastered at Metarc since 1998. John lives in Brussels and... read more
Hymen Records was founded in June 1997 to present rough technoïd & ambient music. Get infected by our sonic exploration. Hymen is a "sister label" and subsidiary of Ant-Zen.
Alterity is the fourth Xingu Hill album and the latest output of John N. Sellekaers, well-known as creative collaborator with projects like Torsion, Black Lung/Xingu Hill, Snog, Urawa, Ambre, & Nternal and chief of the audiomastering-studio Metarc in Brussels.
This album is free from stylistic limitations, it travels through groovy ambient tunes with surrealistic atmospheres to chaotic soundscapes towards slower, more experimental pieces which however form an intimate coexistence. The complex melting of these different styles emphasises Alterity with a special, unique character, which may first appear with a strange affection but gets familiar the more attentive you listen. Deeply fractured sonic mutations build up their own morphogenic aesthetics. It's unalterable giving a mindfully listening to enjoy a more experimental side of electronic music and assimilate the full potential with access to an exceptional sound experience! It exists in its own space and with its own rules!
Xingu Hill
Hymen Records
