Discovery Zone's Library Copy Do Not Remove is Out Now!

Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove renders in our simulation today.

In 2023, JJ Weihl was commissioned for a special spatial audio performance inside the historic Zeiss-Sroß Planetarium dome in Berlin. This unusual invitation provided a fittingly unusual challenge: how would JJ approach spatializing her music for this environment, and what would it sound like?

Those familiar with Discovery Zone’s music know it is often anchored in rhythm, her infectious grooves inspiring and urging the listener to move. Reading the spherical room, and seeing a place to simulate space, if not an entirely other universe, JJ instead decided to completely redesign the circuitry of Discovery Zone’s mainframe. 

Extracting her voice and kick drum, JJ worked with Fenster bandmate Lucas Chantre and longtime producer E/T to craft a constellation of interwoven environmental compositions, spiraling and expanding outward in seemingly eternal layers of synth and bass. The resulting recordings constitute an intricate sonic mythos, one that boldly explores the creative tension between reality and perception, harmony and disorder, nature and technology.

Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove is available now in vinyl, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.