Justin Bennett
Chipka
Spore Records

Screen-printed release material reads: “Chipka is a multiple by Justin Bennett. It consists of two copies of a vinyl 12” record and a fold-out screenprint on metallic card, packed in a plastic gatefold sleeve. 

“The sounds on the record were recorded on location in Aalst, Belgium and Szczecin, Poland. We hear machines, steam pouring out of factory pipes, plates and glasses rattling to the rhythm of passing trains and the resonances of industrial architecture.

“This record will not play on its own. You have to play it, work at it. The loops, locked grooves, textures and sequences form the materials of Chipka. The listener, preferably with two turntables, creates his or her own version of the piece. The loops are cut at 33.3rpm, the rest at 45.

“The screenprint is the graphic score for the piece: an assembly of factory pipes, utopian architecture and modern ruins.”

Printed in a limited run of 100 copies. Numbers 1–10 include an etching (the copy pictured is a promo copy). Designed by Remco van Bladel, silkscreen printing by Krijger Zeefdruk, Amsterdam.