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 - O O Doomscrll

nondi_ - _joe-pye

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

Real Connection

Alto Aria - Real Connection

Did a mix for the chinese NUTRii music platform (@nutrii-ent) with a special storytelling. Read more below.
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In classical mythology, the hero often leaves the Ordinary World to confront their first adversary. In many mythological tales, as well as in various religions, folktales, and epic poems, the hero ventures into an underworld to face their initial trial. One may recall Ulysses speaking to the shade of Tiresias or Aeneas descending into the realm of the dead to converse with the spirit of his father.

This symbolic moment is often a metaphor for a descent into oneself, a confrontation with one's inner demons—what one fears most in the world. After the hero descends into the underworld, there is often a confrontation with malevolent spirits that must be exorcised. In Christian tradition, this was referred to as the "Harrowing of Hell."

It is often after this point in the story that the hero returns, reborn, grown, filled with a new force. What imagery does this represent for those of our time? What if we too needed this threshold crossing, one day in our lives, to confront our own enemies, our own demons hidden here and there in the underworld of ourselves?

For over 50 minutes, you will immerse yourself in the story of a character who leaves the everyday world to descend somewhere, into an unknown place, where they will confront themselves, their own fears, their own existence... and then, after grappling with inner demons, they will find the opportunity for rebirth, having made peace with themselves. Because we are all heroes in the myths of our own lives, we sometimes need to step outside ourselves.
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PART I (00:00 to 20:00): The Decline and Struggle Against Their Own Existence
PART II (00:00 to 35:00): Acceptance and Rebirth 
PART III (35:00 to the End): The Emergence of a New Self
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天使のたまご_メインテーマ - Angels Ovum (Anime Main Theme)
Footstep Sound Library
Door / Lift Sound Library
Lift Going Down Sound Library
VMO (@violentmagicorchestra) - ‘Planet Helvetech’
VMO feat. Gabber Eleganza (@gabbereleganza) - ‘Martello Mosh Pit’
SLEEPTVLK (@sleeptvlkdub) - ‘GIALLO TUNE’
Porcelana_瓷器 (@porcelana-noise) - ‘CHINESE HORROR’
Male Whimpering & Crying Sound Library
Help Me Mourning Sound Library
INHUMAN (@codepandorumofficial) - ‘CALVAIRE II’
Richie Culver - ‘Love Like An Abscess’ (Aho Ssan @ahossan Remix)
slikback @freddymn - ‘ASEIX’
Nordra @nordra - ‘HUMAN’
Ábris Gryllus @abrisgryllus – ‘Parent II’
The End Of The Tour Scene Sample
Silence (Piano) - Alter Ego OST (iOS Game)
Footstep 2 Sound Library
Lift Going Up Sound Library
Lý Trang @lytrang29121997 - ‘look, I finally had an umbilical cord’
Carrot113 @user-779071574 - OMORI (overcome) Remix (Video Game OST)

NUTRii Mixtape 013 - Brice Reiter

Normal Battle [Nocturne Speed Garage Mix]

Written, Produced & Mixed by Laces
Mastered by Suture Mastering

Artwork by Franki Bonanno
Visualiser by Laces

© NLV Records 2024 / NLVR0190

Puer

Olce IV

Following the events of "Annihilation", xato presents the second part of his personal odyssey, "Irrational Fear".

"Irrational Fear" explores the dark self with intense drone recordings being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2020 and 2022, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

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Boëthius - The Way She Looks At Me

FROM CLAM017 | TONYPEDIA

clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/tonypedia

out 12/04/2024

@t0nyp3re

TONY PEREZ - MAPLE TREEWAY

Tribechuli

Hello friends 

Very happy to share with you the first song of an upcoming project we're releasing by ‘Félicette’. 

The full EP will be out on the 20th of May on Toverberg, Mostly Interrupted & White Garden. 

Add. mixing: Daniël Paul

Master: Victor Gybels

Félicette - embarking song

lesbian sound worx
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Normal Battle [Nocturne Speed Garage Mix]

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