Future Traumatic Stress Disorder [with remixes by Keith Tucker and AMX]

pdqb is an entity without a fi xed form, moving through multiple timelines at once, performing in all of them simultaneously. Every tone on this record was sampled somewhere else: in collapsed futures, un fi nished pasts, and inside stress loops that never resolved. The tracks are not composed - they are retrieved, stitched together from moments that already happened and moments that haven't happened yet. The music is unstable, dependent on who listens, and in which dimension, the tracks re-arrange themselves, revealing di ff erent harmonics, di ff erent fears, di ff erent exits. No two listeners hear the same, even if they play it at the same time. Dr. Paul Dominic Quentin Bernard de fi nes Future Traumatic Stress Disorder as a cognitive condition marked by a reversal of mnemonic orientation. Memory, in this model, no longer operates retrospectively but functions prospectively, encoding anticipated survival outcomes rather than past experience. A ff ected subjects do not recall what has been lived through; instead, they retain anticipatory memory structures of what will be survived. Bernard notes that this temporal inversion produces sustained psychological stress and warrants further empirical investigation. - cover with artwork by superhuman artist Huma Bhabha - future-proof audio artefact - binary splatter vinyl - post-temporal dance weapon - motor-city signal processing