The new Realistic album titled Perpetual Memory Loss is now available. It features sixteen tracks of intricate sample-based compositions – a beautifully sophisticated celebration of found sound, recorded media, technology, and electronic composition. Purchase the CD and/or digital download from the Illegal Art webshop here.

Stream the entire Perpetual Memory Loss album here or for more information and free mp3s click here.


Some recent comments about Realistic:

"Brooklyn-based James Towning (a.k.a Realistic) deserves his place next to Girl Talk on the Illegal Art roster. Incorporating a myriad of samples from rock to self-help records, Realistic has set a new template for eerie downtempo. If sound collages that bump had a poster boy, it would be this advanced producer." -xlr8r.com/downloads

"...a real mish-mash of sounds and genres, plus a wide variety of production techniques that never fails to excite. It’s his wide taste in influences that has created his unique hybrid: from Mu-ziq and Kid Koala, to ELO and The Beatles, meaning that with such a colourful palette, you are guaranteed to never get bored." -AngryApe

"...a plunderphonics project in the vein of our favourites Cassetteboy although not as funny as their UK counterparts. Taking bits and pieces from different music genres and mixing them in a lo-fi and anti-art manner, Canada’s Realistic is a helluva cool if you’re into Wobbly or culturejamming heroes Negativland." -Undomondo

"Standing somewhere between the left-field experimentalism of Negativland and the pop collaging of the The Avalanches Realistic borrows material from every possible source , like a musical rag ’n bone man, and uses it to create beautifully hypnotic and thought provokingly surreal soundscapes." -The Devil Has The Best Tuna