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<h1>Arc Lab</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Arc-Lab-Anthem-new.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-14580" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Arc-Lab-Anthem-new-300x198.jpg" alt="Arc Lab" width="300" height="198" /></a><i>“…one of the most original releases in the IDM field in some time…confounding the set-in-stone rules of a stagnant IDM genre”</i> –<b> [sic] Magazine on The Goodbye Radio</b>

Eschewing easy genre classification, <a title="Medard Fischer" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/medard-fischer/">Medard Fischer</a>’s output as Arc Lab effectively blends IDM’s technical sophistication with the moving and poignant character of neo-classical ambience and a finely tuned ear for electroacoustic pop. His new album, <i>Anthem </i>(2016), folds classic analogue timbres and detuned FM ambience into fragmented radio broadcasts, forgotten NASA program materials and layers of deep space noise, creating music that is, by turns, menacing and contemplative, forbidding and epic.
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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>Anthem</h4>
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July 2016
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After years away, Medard Fischer’s Arc Lab project returns with <em>Anthem</em>, a retrofuturistic sci-fi travelogue. Folding classic analogue timbres and detuned FM ambience over fragmented radio broadcasts, forgotten NASA program materials and layers of deep space noise, <em>Anthem</em> is in turns menacing and contemplative, forbidding and epic. The album shifts between claustrophobic tension and widescreen, cinematic expanse. Crushes of static and thundering percussion sit alongside diminutive synth studies, all plotted against an almost palpable narrative of anxiety, struggle and, ultimately, salvation. It’s the grandeur of classic space opera, refracting darkly through a contemporary lens.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Arc Lab is Hidden Shoal artist <a title="Medard Fischer" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/medard-fischer/">Medard Fischer</a>’s primary vehicle for musical experimentation – a blank-slate platform on which he has released a diverse catalogue of emotive, conceptual work. We last heard from Arc Lab in 2008, with the release of<i> The Goodbye Radio</i> (n5MD), an album described as “‘genre-defying’ or, perhaps most appropriately, ‘genre-transcending’” (Textura) and as “one of the most original releases in the IDM field in some time” and “downright ingenious” ([sic] Magazine). As suggested by its cryptic title, <i>The Goodbye Radio</i> was heavily driven by internal narrative, with thematic touchpoints including early space exploration and relativistic physics. Fischer’s latest full-length <i>Anthem</i> (2016), and his first for Hidden Shoal, continues the story, marking another chapter in an alternative arc of history only hinted at in buried audio fragments, track titles and structures. The result is essential Arc Lab – evocative and compelling pieces rich with meaning and purpose.

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Arc Lab's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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