Aqualaxy by Various Artists
Welcome to Aqualaxy, a collaborative project where Warning joins forces with art historian C.C. McKee from Philadelphia and international queer activist dia_shi from Berlin. Accompanying McKee’s book on the debut album by late-90s electronic pop band Aqua, Aqualaxy is a compilation of contemporary queer artists from North America and Europe commissioned to create their own takes on songs from Aqua's debut album. The result is an expansive blossoming variety of music, from sizzling trance pop, to eerie darkwave atmospheres, to cheeky dancefloor weapons.
With Aqualaxy, Warning presents a release that playfully deviates from the label's usual tracks, highlights trans musicians, and offers fresh takes on nostalgic favourites to the community. So, welcome to Aqualaxy! Embrace its endless fluidity, a space where everything becomes possible, where some changes aren’t even a second thought. Did you know that when the kobudai reef fish reaches a certain size she changes her sex from female to male? Did you know that when the largest female in a school of Clownfish dies the male swaps sex to take her place? Protogyny, protandry, it all just seems like fun; not to mention the host of genders and ways of fucking we don’t even have words for as humans! In Aqualaxy, everything is possible under the water. Imagination, life is your creation!
Tracklist
Credits
All Tracks Written By Aqua
Additional Mix By Max Weber
Mastered At Orange Studio Berlin
Cut At Dubplates & Mastering
Pressed At Objects Manufacturing
Painting By Murat Önen
Aqualaxy. Oil On Canvas, 100 Cm X 100 Cm, 2024
Layout By Dia_shi and Guillaume de Ubeda
Concept & Art Direction
C.C. Mckee, Falk/Mikodisko and Hendrik Wolff
Aqualaxy Was Conceived In Relation To The Book Aqua’s Aquarium By C.C. Mckee, Published As Part Of The 33 ⅓ Europe Series.
