The silence in the room was deafening; an air of unease had been present ever since she entered the room. For the past few days he'd made a decision to grin and bear it, there wasn't long before he could remove himself from this situation for good - until then he'd keep himself to himself and say nothing at all. In all honesty, he was out of words now, there was nothing left to say that hadn't been said already, she couldn't turn back the hands of time...

Infinite Machine made a statement with their final release of 2021. A celebration of them reaching 10 years in the game, the label are now looking ahead to another packed year continuing their exploration of the weird corners of contemporary dance music.

Following a label return from Soft As Snow last month, Infinite Machine welcome Greek-born producer Aroent to the family for a four-track EP, made up of three originals and a rework from Deaf Test boss Ploy. You can hear the different influences that inform his approach - touches of IDM, UK techno, bass and experimental funnel into the dense, layered compositions, which are full of heavy drum programming, crisp percussion and plenty of swing.

PREMIERE: Aroent - Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix) [Infinite Machine]

Dawn Razor (@ awnazor ) returns to Scuffed with two moody, hypnotic techno cuts.

Dawn Razor - Raw Row

“Hyperwide Lustre” is Orchestroll’s debut record, a mini-LP released on Montreal’s garmo – a highly curious and deeply devolved collection of music produced and performed for a run of live club sets by the duo. Jester-like, this is music that laughs at you: because it’s funny, because it’s not; because you did too much, because you did too little. Because you’re too loud; too quiet.

Wrapped in the exquisite production chops of Richard-Robitaille and Osborne-Lanthier, Hyperwide Lustre is quasi-sarcastic and fully irreverent, a shimmering hybrid of spectral dance music and avant classical; psychedelic, cinematic, fluid, and yet bejeweled with wry opulence. Lovelorn synths and haunted, clattering, percussion roll through these halls.

Like a labyrinth glimpsed beneath shifting sands, Orchestroll craft an album that feels both puzzling and oddly familiar. This is a realm of playful, idiosyncratic unease. Two puppetmasters who lost control of their puppets long ago. The keyboard whispers, but the mouse decides the tale.

“Succubus Ripcord” writhes and coils with an oneiric arrhythmia, a dissonant hybrid of meticulously spliced auditory chiaroscuro. Exhuming spectral echoes of jungle breaks from the digital crypts of the early 2000s, the track unfurls as a warped homage to the golden age of tracker-made drill-and-bass. It plunges into a swarm of synaptic spasms, where scintillations of disintegrated percussion and distended sub-bass detonate with volatile intensity. The track acts as a cyclopean centrifuge, accelerating the listener into a paroxysm of heightened frenzy within the maelstrom of techstep's rhythmic fury.

B4 - Succubus Ripcord

NR Sound Premiere #9

Artist: Tadleeh
Track: Seekers
Album: LONE
Label: YOUTH
Release date: 25.03.24
Read the interview with Tadleeh here: https://nr.world/nrsoundpremieres-track-etymology-tadleeh/
Order the digital album here: https://tadleeh.bandcamp.com/album/dribbling-int002 

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Premiere: Tadleeh - Seekers [LONE]

https://ultravirus.bandcamp.com/album/arpvision

Betwixt the Ancient Gums
Two, three, one hundred Lovers
Sealed the Prophecy
Tugged tight the Gordian Knot

A ray from the slowly sinking Sun,
Low-angled across the planes of Wiradjuri,
Collides with a ring-borne Diamond
Refracting Light into Space:
an Arpvision.

A signal, a call, primordial, ineffable...
Weaving through the thicket of forest trunks, along the tributaries, flowing into creeks and rivers, towards waving stalks of purple daisies, and finally upwards, unto that great and glorious Gum, casting the glow of Bright Green Tomorrow.

Without you we are none
Together we are 1
Welcome to the Halcyon Future
Season1 🌱

This music was composed by Yoni Bresley @breezydbr to celebrate the matrimony of Thorsten and Ella de Luxe. Originally performed on Wiradjuri Country, April 1 2022.

Full release April 1 2024

Arpvision (Preview)

Snarefell

@count2count
@rizlaops
@atch222
@teqmun-tijmen-b

Markham Road Records is back steering steady with atch22, Count, Rizla Ops, and Teqmun in the driver seats. MR003 finds form as a quartet of percussion providing some real bang for your buck. This release was dreamt up for quick stepping activity, and the four tracks assembled provide a wide ranging toolkit to get us all moving. Although each artist provides a unique solution, movement was and remains the underlying idea behind this third release. 

Count’s “Hexagon” opens the project up with a spaced out ‘builder’ that seems to continuously fold in on itself. The track progresses through its 4 minute lifespan with natural and intuitive progression. With its sub heavy cadence “Hexagon” seeps through the speakers, and is sure to remain reliable when used under many circumstances. 

The second track of the release rebounds in as a ricochet rhythm from none other than London based RIZLA OPS. After receiving a demo titled “voo kah” we knew it was love at first sight… and the final iteration aptly named “Cortex” does not disappoint. When asked about the track RIZLA OPS shared “The triplet snare is locked in by a big roomy kick that squares it into that tool-y club space I notice my recent productions are exploring. Cortex finds its name in the buzzy bitcrushed bass that draws from ghosty drill, loose audio jack and ASMR machinery that buries itself in the cranium.” A steady mover with a circular undertone, it doesn’t take much to get moving when this track takes over the system. 

“sexta feira” finds itself on the borders of trance, dembow, and dubstep. Besides these initial patterning queues, atch22 also employs a variety of vocal stabs and modulation to keep the track moving. After a recent move to build a studio in Strahov Stadium (would definitely suggest looking this one up), atch22 has been back behind the monitors, with this track being the first product of his new musical home. The track defines itself in the world of peak time frequencies and fluctuates through a wide range of feelings. Truly something in it for everyone. 

MR003’s concluding track takes sonic blistering to a whole new level. Teqmun’s masterclass in unrelenting percussion continues to capture our hearts, and surge through our speakers. “Stop Scanning the Zebras” is a fast paced tech heavy track centered by vocals from the producer himself. “I imagined being so out of your mind that you can't stop trying to scan zebra's like barcodes with a scanner”. This track is easy to get lost inside of and therefore evokes some sort of free fall -> an exercise in letting go for eager ears in dimly lit spaces.

[MR003] VA

BANDCAMP

MR003 - Various Artists

Bugs after you lift up their rock_Life of an HR manager_Jake Gyllenhaal is so babygirl_POV:you a Seahorse and ur gurl just dropped off the kids_us in another universe_you’re either good at bowling or you’re good in bed_Am I hearing wrong or is that Christian EDM?_she unliked the spotify playlist_Ikea restaurant

https://soundcloud.com/io-papadatou-93072181; https://www.instagram.com/ioooooo_p/; https://soundcloud.com/paul-koutselos; https://www.instagram.com/paul_koutselos/

THUMBNUMB 001 w/ Io&Pavlos (30.05.24)

B1 . SIMO CELL - A Wink Gone Wrong

happy bandcamp day! buy it here:

https://alicia.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-your-brain-on-percs

This Is Your Brain On Percs

From ANM047 "Climat Avenir", by Simon Chioini — CD Digipack

Climat avenir ; portrait of unexploited lands, of deserted spaces, of a corrosive and venomous flora. Irked protagonists, roaming livestock, their acidic cries.
Beauty of the blue-green lakes, of the scintillating stars under clouds of bronze. The earth's foundational movement.
Crashing ice. Solar winds.
This work cycle is an imagined world voided of any human presence, or succeeding it. It is a prismatic composition: a vibrant landscape, a topographic map, an exploded geode.
Macro. Micro.

Music composition and mastering by Simon Chioini.
Photography by Violeta Mayoral. Sculptures by Lara Fluxà. Art Direction and concept by Violeta Mayoral and Lara Fluxà.

Climat Avenir

ANM047 Simon Chioini — Réservoir III

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