This is the slightly overdue celebration of C Foam’s 10 year anniversary. In 2010, C Foam was born when the producer released Songs About Living, a short experimental noise album that showed promise and even got some college radio airplay. Soon after, the C Foam project expanded, releasing several albums of art noise in quick succession, each album somehow getting a bit more expansive than the last. As sample upon sample began to pile up, the relatively pure analog noise of the first album or two gave way to a new kind of distorted, collaged pop-noise. Albums like Hazing and Summertime, both from 2012, and Pop Salad and Paradise, both from 2013, pioneered this wide-eyed, curiosity-fueled style of sampling, once referred to by C Foam as “anthropological noise, if it didn’t sound so fucking douchey.” In any event, now sounds came from everywhere: C Foam’s ear was constantly to the ground, searching, filtering, and distilling the chaos of America into song. Mid-decade saw a fresh start of sorts: 2014’s self-titled album seemed to point to a new-found freedom, a sign the producer was beginning to move in a slightly different, looser direction. But after 2014, C Foam went silent. In 2016, a newly-energized C Foam returned with Spiritual America, a living and breathing five-album cycle that signaled a formal move into longer work, at once more sprawling and more focused. After the rapid-fire release of Spiritual America 1-5, C Foam slowed down again, releasing only a handful of pared down records, EPs, singles and a brief live concert album over the next two years. In 2018, C Foam re-emerged with another formal experiment called Cause For Neon Shadows, which was, at 2.5 hours, the longest C Foam album ever at the time. The huge scale of the album seemed to reinvigorate the producer, who followed Cause For Neon Shadows later in 2018 with The Gold Rush, an even longer release, this time offering a razor-sharp look at the technology and finance sectors. The ripped-from-the-headlines quality of many of the samples lent The Gold Rush a new kind of urgency and pushed C Foam into still newer territory. After two brief holiday-themed EPs in 2019, C Foam returned with another new project entitled Mutual Addiction. Mutual Addiction focused specifically on the media and American politics, topics C Foam’s work had always been concerned with in different ways but had never addressed so directly. In May 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, C Foam released a sequel to Mutual Addiction. Simply titled Mutual Addiction 2020, the album was an exhaustive – and exhausting – effort, clocking in at 4 hours and fifteen minutes, which again dealt directly with contemporary American media. That brings us up to speed. Now, ten yers in, what’s next for the producer? In April 2021, witness the coming of another new era: Resurrection. Resurrection is the new seven-album cycle from C Foam. Resurrection is a new beginning. It’s both a looking back and a pushing forward. It’s personal, and older. Hopefully wiser. It’s both about escape, and about being helplessly trapped. It’s About Finding mind-opening inspiration wherever you can in this oppressive world. It’s full of real terror but equally real excitement. It’s about making a new start, personally, creatively, culturally.
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