Single from "Hyle," the new EP from Montreal-based producer @soft-matter forthcoming 27.08.21 on @infinite-machine.

Hyle

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PREMIERE: Softmatter - Morphe [IM093]

IM097 - @forces-music - Inertia
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: July 1st, 2022
Format: Digital
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Infinite Machine is happy to welcome interdisciplinary artist, Forces, to the IM family with the release of Inertia, Joonas Siren’s fifth album since he began putting out music in 2018. With previous cosigns from Aphex Twin, Zuli & Daniel Ruane, Forces is known for creating sharp digital textures and ever-surprising rhythmic structures using live coding software such as SuperCollider and TidalCycles. 

With a background in fine art, Forces is never one to shy away from conceptual thinking about his output and this album is no different. Engaging with the work of theorist Franco Berardi (particularly recent book ‘Futurability’), Inertia tries to soundtrack the political malaise of the last few decades and the growing sense of powerlessness and inability to avoid the many crises generated by the structures of capital. 

Forces opens up proceedings with ‘Algorithmic Governance’, where doom-laden bass drones pulse and groan over erratic drum hits which play in alien time signatures, outside of the realm of full, human comprehension. The algorithmic control of the track’s title could refer to Franco Berardi’s interest in social media, a force which simplifies and monetises social communication, or it could refer to his approach to co-creation with his software of choice. With many compositions, Forces sets up rules or parameters in his code but allows elements of randomisation and evolution, inviting SuperCollider’s algorithm to become a co-author alongside him.

‘Morphogenesis’ begins life as a straight-forward, hard techno composition but things are not as simple as they may first seem. Over its 5 minute duration, the stable 4/4 beat seems to collapse in on itself, potentially nodding to the mood of our current socio-economic moment. This is followed up by the formidable ‘Swarm’, a masterclass in algorythmic synthesis that’ll slice your brain in half on first listen. A stuttering of buzz saw-styled synth tones sweep, stretch and pitch bend themselves in ways that would be almost impossible to achieve within a classic DAW. 

Named after the Berardi book that inspired Forces, ‘Futurability’ takes things in a slightly softer direction. Reminiscent of early Tim Hecker releases (with an added cybernetic edge), ‘Futurability’ has a sedative yet uneasy tone to it, as if the song is reflecting the dual sense of concern that things should change in society but our helplessness to actually change them, especially in the ecological or economic arena.

A tale of two halves, ‘Soul at Work’ starts out as a blissfully serene piece of what you could describe as code-based shoegaze which is then chewed up and spat out by algorithmic distortion and disorientating glitches from the midway point onwards. 

Forces ends Inertia on a more hopeful note with the David Graeber-sampling ‘Horizon of Possibility’. Unlike ‘Soul at Work’, the lush drone work is left intact on this arrangement - maybe signaling the potential existence of different structures that are more positive and robust for all.

With Inertia, Forces pushes his singular musical style even further, to more hyperbolic and emotive heights. Embracing the eccentric randomness of the SuperCollider software and working in concepts from contemporary theorists, this album is a mediation on the current moment created alongside technology that also feels hyper-relevant to today.

Inertia

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Forces - Spiritual Automata (IM097)

2x|n & Gyur - Anathema Pt. 1

(DAWN016)
100 limited copies
@gargantuang
Produced by Gargantuan Grief
Mastered by @lastrackqlf
Photos by GG and Hajj
Design by @hadji-hajj
Dawn 2022

Gargantuan Grief - Be Your Own Martyr

(DAWN017) UN1TED NOWHERE V/A
100 limited copies
CD
Mastered by Truehd
Design by Hajj
Dawn 2023

@comechelet
@kingdoudou
@ptwiggs
@elvin-brandhi-1
@jjjacob
@whiterose39
@tumy06
@jonnnah
@talpah
@itsronce
@otoninski
@gyurbhi
@hadji-hajj

Gyur - DeT00

from Kuthi Jin • Satyrikon

out soon

clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/satyrikon

@kuthijin

Satyrikon

KUTHI JIN - PINTO

@jjjacob
Original track by RougeHotel
ArtWork by GaryChig0o
Mastering by RougeHotel

Choral Chaos (Earthless Artefact Extension)

Hello World

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Hello World (jjjacob remix)

Alice Anyway - All Good Things

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling

A cry for intimacy in a time where physical connection is lost.

"Touching Without Feeling”, the third EP by Helsinki-based artist Exploited Body, reveals a more somber and brooding aesthetic for the artist. The ominous presence of Exploited Body’s signature blistered distortion manifests as a physical entity, while his murmured vocals call to be touched like an apparition that can be felt prominently throughout the record.

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Exploited Body.
Artwork by Exploited Body.

@exploitedbody

Touching Without Feeling

Exploited Body - Artificial Proximity

@m_a_a_y's contribution to "MECHA 03," a new compilation from @trrueno due out 6/11/20.

Mastering: @astrosuka & @sofffja
Artwork: Emma Pidré

Pre-order: https://trrueno.bandcamp.com/album/mecha03-trr-014

MECHA 03

PREMIERE: MAAY - Chaotic Adorable Criatura [TRRUENO]

New @parkingstone compilation: BLIST
01. piano princess - all the time
02. Meuko! Meuko! - none (live recording)
03. Deli Girls - SILENCE
04. Nkisi - phantasia
05. IDKLANG - Self-Optimize Pt. I The Mirror
06. INSIN - Kali Phos
07. Khadije - Ms. Thinking
08. Lizzitsky - Gum Massacre (C-Gen Mix)
09. Osheyack - Obfuscate ft. Jordan Tierney
10. Gabber Modus Operandi - Banci
11. Tati au Miel - Clairvoyance
12. Summer Satana - Mutation needs violence
13. ENDGAME - DRAINED
14. Van Boom & Oldyungmayn - 20965
15. whiterose - h'X
16. HDMIRROR - RE-ENTRY
17. Gabber Eleganza - Bonjour Travelers
Cover: Joe Pascale
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta

whiterose - h'X

Nothing Remains

Helsinki • Est. 2019

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Exploited Body - Artificial Proximity

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