Partial Defrag 𓇳

Coverage The Quietus (Review, Agata Kik): “Snapshots of voices and digital debris conjuring up a journey through London’s nocturnal streets” NINA Protocol (Staff Pick, JB Johnson): “Prickly compositions pulled from the dregs of hard drive compression”

ScanDisk ScanDisk is the debut AV release of Partial Defrag on STRATA (29.11.24).

“Whispered voices, car engines, and ethereal club hooks are cut up, compressed, and congealed into a fluid, late-night motif for a spectral, industrial London. Partial Defrag’s free-form compositions are the leftovers of a hard drive compression: space-optimised memories tainted with artifacts.”

This is an audio-visual release accompanied by three videos and a limited run of 30 Blue CDs, packaged in anti-static hard drive bags.

Listen & Support on Bandcamp + NINA (Physical copies available on Bandcamp only)

_{Videos accompanying the release ↴} X] Elmelin X] Squat X] VFS

Live Set Footage 6.12.24 ScanDisk Launch, CSTC Goldsmiths + IKLECTIK (London) 10.10.24 Strata+0.1, Spanners (London)

Dates X] 30.1.25 TBA;

X] 6.12.24 ScanDisk Launch, Goldsmiths SIML, London. (Event supported by CSTC Goldsmiths and IKLECTIK) with Isidora Edwards and Michal-Jon Mizra;

X] 10.10.24 Strata+0.1, Spanners (London), (STRATA label launch event) with Ans M, Veronica+, Castle Maol, Gloves to Bouquet;

X] 9.8.24 NEWPHORIA: THE END OF REALITY RAVE, (ecolagbohrsac2021 x Fetchish). Corsica Studios, London;

—As Pietro Bardini playing Partial Defrag material X] 17.11.23 IKLECTIK Tour 2023], White Hotel (Manchester) with Blood of Aza, Dale Cornish, John-Robin Bold;

—As Pietro Bardini playing Partial Defrag material X] 29.8.23 Cafe Oto, with BABA YAGA’s HUT Maria Bertel + ecolagbohrsac2021;