Artist: @fausto_mercier / @trngs
Catalogue Number: IM091
Album: I'm Too Sentient
Release Date: June 25th, 2021
Format: Digital

Stepping in as a musical match-maker, Infinite Machine has paired up Fausto Mercier & trngs, two boundary-pushing sound designers, for a fresh EP of kinetic and visceral electronics. The pair are well suited to be partners in crime on I'm Too Sentient: both share a meticulously detailed approach to sculpting sounds as well as a keen interest in producing a sonic ‘uncanny valley’ in their output - manipulating organic sounds until their source is barely recognisable.

Fausto Mercier opens up I'm Too Sentient with Overcorp, a dramatic opener which only seems to get more frantic over time. Unfolding like an algorithmic Fibonacci spiral, Fausto’s musical ideas seem to shrink and appear within each other like fractal patterns. Towards the end of the track, the low-end drops out and is replaced by moody pad synths, an uneasy palette cleanser that glides over fidgety samples that refuse to sit still.

Next up, Bite Nails II Assert Dominance is another cerebral hit of complex, polyrhythmic laptop music. The beginning of this track seems far more ‘on-grid’ than Overcorp, but we are lulled into a false sense of security by Fausto who starts nudging samples into unexpected phrasings or squeezing new sounds into inexplicably small gaps within his drum programming. A real head-spinner of a tune!

Fausto’s final offering from the split, O O Doomscrll is potentially the most frantic moment of I'm Too Sentient. Humanoid-esque synths seem to wail through the arrangement, backed up by a punishing delivery of drum hits and manipulated organic sounds. As the title seems to suggest, O O Doomscrll could almost be considered as a soundtrack for our age of digital disorientation and social anxiety.

trngs opens up his half of the split EP with Organic Fabrication Core, a sonic headfuck if ever there was one. Jammed full of ideas and operating at break-neck speeds, trngs background in improvisational free jazz definitely comes to prominence in tracks like these.

Next up, trngs keeps the tempos fast with I'm Too Sentient For My Own Wellbeing - a track which sounds a bit like if Mark Fell had a breakcore side project. Musical stutters and iterative loops are abruptly swapped out for aggy kick drums which cut through the mix like a knife. The name of this song, again, nods to our accelerated virtual culture and the pressures that our contemporary information-overload can exert on us.

Rounding off the split, trngs’ () %%% () is a curious experiment across multiple temporalities and textures. Starting off serene and calm, the production degrades and glitches-out like an alien fungi permeating an ambient music culture.

An enthralling exploration of modern laptop musicianship, I'm Too Sentient is probably unlike anything you will hear this year. We suggest you press play and hold on tight.

Artwork by trngs

Fausto Mercier - Bite Nails II Assert Dominance

You have walked for hours, maybe days. You are exhausted and it is now impossible to turn back.

When everything seems lost, finally, The fog fade away. 
You look up and a feeling of dread fills you up as your eyes rest on this hideous structure, with a size defying all common sense, standing in front of you. 

The bricks that compose it are engraved with obscure yet complex geometrical symbols. The monolith emits a lurid aura freezing you in place. Yet you have no choice but to move forward, one step at a time. Despite the fear, it calls you.

[16.05.2022]_____ 

From deep in the cyber realm comes an undefined entity known only as prox.bleep. Arriving to this plane wielding unnamable sound design techniques and indescribable sonic alchemy, he is no doubt an alien master of the unmentionable aural arts one only hears of whispered in dark corners of even darker places. 

Armed with a genre-defining grimoire of immaculately crafted hyperglitch spells, prox is set to unleash a wild torrent of mind gripping frequencies, creatively resampled to feed itself in a hypnotic dance of structureless structures. A fully contrived arcane spectacle deployed in the most bewildering manner. Is this world prepared for the darks arts of prox.Bleep? 

ID: Sentient Intelligence Series 10 (PARA-SIS10) 
Artist: prox.Bleep 
Title: Bewildering Wonder 
Label: Paracusia Media 
Genre: Hyperglitch, IDM, Cinematic 
Date: May 16th, 2022 
Length: 15:25
Available in 24bit/48Khz.

The Forgotten Remnant

A collection of brain debris from September. Exploration of texture and dynamics in a glitched harsh noise environment. Sampled from future projects, while sitting in my hollow.
Most things about this project has been crudely rushed together, out of spite of my own overthinking.

Full audiovisual: youtu.be/rRyF5unWOd4

Backwards, Through Concrete

Blackout - Single

Blackout

@montenegro1997 's contribution to Soul Feeder's ANIMA compilation.

Stream, download & merch: https://push.fm/fl/animava

Photography by IG: nezpera
Illustration design and editing by @saeternsaetern and @swanpalace
Mastering by @dj_ghepard

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Montenegro - Menura

Sigma By amaranth_todd & Z² 

Out wednesday 4, october 2023 on After Affects Rec
https://afteraffectsrec.bandcamp.com/album/sigma-ep

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Mastered by https://dadubstudio.com/
Artwork by Z²
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amaranth_todd & Z² - SIGMA - After Affects Rec

Heaven is noisy

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Second Track of debut album "HELL" out at the end of 2025
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Quantum Surge

the other side

Paracusia Media proudly presents a brazen retelling of Hypercube's phenomenal mini-album Pneumatic Guru by some of our savvy sonic sorcerers! Each artist chose one track to rework into their own vision, and imbue with their own aural code. The results are exemplary, as each track shines with a light all its' own while still honouring the integrity and ingenuity of the originals. A masterpiece of hyper-dimensional sonic transmogrification. 

Volume one is the remix edition, featuring immersive reinterpretations by Man From Sol, Jim Kimchi, Vaeprism, and sunnk. 

ID: Sentient Intelligence Series 6 (PARA-SIS6) 
Artist: Hypercube, Various Artists 
Title: The Pneumatic Guru Recalibrations: Volume 1 
Label: Paracusia Media 
Genre: Experimental/IDM/Electro-Acoustic 
Date: 11.30.2020 
Length: 20:58 
Available in 24bit/48Khz.


Original tracks by Rodrigo Passannanti 
Remixes by the respective artists. 
Mastered by Rodrigo Passannanti 
Graphic Design by Vaeprism

02. I Must Socket - Jim Kimchi - Rmx

INDEPENDENT LABEL:       

abstract hip hop hybrid - downtempo - dubstep electronica - idm - ambient...

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