After the striking comeback of the “Luxury Anxiety” EP - which reactivated a dormant cult following while drawing in a new generation of listeners - CUT.RATE.BOX now turns the lens inward with “Maps of Stone”, an unconventional retrospective that feels less like a compilation and more like a guided excavation. Spanning 23 fully remastered tracks and nearly four decades of creation, “Maps of Stone” unfolds as a sonic flashback adventure, moving backwards from the project’s latest 2025 releases to its raw late-80s origins. Along the way, it traces the evolution of G. Wygonik’s unmistakable voice through shifting technologies, genres, and emotional states - from modern melodic future pop and EBM (evoking HAUJOBB, COVENANT, ASSEMBLAGE 23 or yet VNV NATION) to early dark industrial, noisy electronics, and tape-saturated experiments steeped in North American underground influences such as SKINNY PIPPY and MENTALLO & THE FIXER. Far from a safe “best of”, this collection dives deep into the architecture behind the myth: alternative versions, demo recordings, rediscovered lost tracks, and previously unreleased material reveal CUT.RATE.BOX in constant motion - angry, introspective, political, melancholic, and fiercely independent. For longtime fans, it’s a rewarding recontextualization of a beloved back catalogue; for newcomers, it’s a rare opportunity to experience the full trajectory of an artist who helped shape - and was shaped by - the dark electro and industrial underground. “Maps of Stone” is memory, noise, melody, and persistence - a testament to continuity through change, and proof that CUT.RATE.BOX was never frozen in time, only waiting for the signal to return. CUT.RATE.BOX is broadcasting again.
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