THE OLDER NORMALITY: THE NEW NORMALITY (2007)

AUTOFAC/The New Normality

a compilation of new mixes and new tracks

 1. Metropolitan (Part 1)

2. I have forgiven everything (new mix)

3. Technique

4. Protect and survive

5. Sexy terrorist (new edit)

6. The sky of Alaska (12" mix)

7. European Union (Euromix)

8. The Vanishing (Remix)

9. Milkbomb

10. Reasons to be bitter part four (Insert your own reasons mix)

11.Monaco afternoon (Remix)

12. DeCosta (new edit)

All tracks written and produced by J. Winstanley, except track 7 (Boylan/Winstanley)

Cover art designed by Autonomous Creations from a source photograph taken by J. Winstanley of Anthony Gormley's 'Event Horizon' in London.

Original versions taken from the EP's 'History's greatest catastrophe', 'European affairs' and 'Metropolitan' and the side project 'Verfremdungseffeckt' by Soviet.

Tracks 3, 4 and 10 are new tracks.

'The New Normality' is an Autonomous Product.

This compilation copyright Two Thousand and Seven

AUTOFAC says:

'The reason for this compilation was to collect together some of the stronger tracks from my EP's along with some new tracks that I've been developing in the last six months. I decide to remix or re-edit some of the older tracks slightly as I kept getting more ideas long after the original versions had been completed.

The idea for the title came from a term I kept either hearing on TV or reading in the papers in reference to post-terrorism laws. One of the themes of the song 'Protect and Survive' is how this culture of 'new normality' is not just about how we carry on under the threat of terror or governments waging illegal wars and doing the opposite of what we elect them for, but how fear is promoted through the culture of complacency, insecurity, pressures to conform, guilt, whether or not we're doing enough to protect the planet, the peer pressure to have makovers, improve our home...anything to belong and feel that we are in some sort of security bubble with our fingers in our ears. So it was a comment on complacency and apathy in a world which just becomes more aspirational, watered down and quite a tedious place to be at times.

Ultimately  it's a collection of modern lo-fi electronic songs made with a laptop, a keyboard and a generous helping of the right amount of optimism, resentment and ambivalence.'

This blog was originally posted on myspace in 2007.

Protect and Survive by AUTOFAC  Metropolitan Part 1 by AUTOFAC