Digital Mass describe themselves as an anonymous collective of artists that opted for the sparsely populated areas of Southeast Europe as their home base. They have released on Mystified’s Teetrunk netlabel before and thus it came with little surprise that Thomas Park himself stepped in as a mediator between Petcord and them for their album Desolatus Remix. Well, to a certain degree I understand the benefits of being anonymous: Whatever you do, people can only judge you by your work, rather than your performance as a celebrety, idol or otherwise privileged person. This may sound strange at first glance, but on second thought, it makes sense as some people’s judgement may be biased by marketing spin and submission to false authorities and sometimes, you just want to know what people really think of your work.

The cover itself is based on one of my fractal works which I extended to a certain degree. A first draft quickly matured and lied around for some time, but I personally found it too simple, so I took the risk of giving the draft an overhaul where additional complexities have found their way into my work again. The golden and similar recursive ratios were applied more loosely, because I wanted to make more use of my instinct. Perhaps it has to do with yin and yan that the more control you excert over a design, the more you feel the desire to break with all these rules and pretend you’ve never heard of them before. Take the fonts, I felt their placement was right the way it is. Interestingly, some borders sneaked in and took a vital role towards the end, as they delivered the final pattern for the back.