@chengdaoyuan

“𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥.”

With great joy we announce VALLEY001, a compilation of Valley family members that displays the versatility, power and most of all talent their community possesses. On the 2nd anniversary of the Valley Radio mix series we are able to celebrate a great coming together of people, motivated by passion and love. 
In this project Valley shows once again that they move rather like an organism than a static platform. Constructing an ever-evolving state influenced by the creative energy of its digital and social surroundings, Valley’s next shape will always be surprising yet familiarly touching. 
Treat yourself to a great variety of sounds with the debut compilation album and start your adventure of discovering the Valley.
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releases May 7, 2021 

Cover art + visuals by Oliva Rawlings 
Mastering by Boudewijn Scholten

Cheng Daoyuan - 荊詠 Stigmata

Hollowed Out

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

Trngs - () %%% ()

But Still Childish

07. Yem Gel - Turnip Hovels

Toiret Status - #106

bela - My Love Is Forever

@waldorfwaldorfwaldorf

“he feels pain in his chest - the thornblade drawing blood which drips on flesh - steel blades where teeth had been - metal where fingers had gripped - clinging like a leech - a lamprey ready to drain him”

Performed live @ Q-Factory Amsterdam
14.12.2023

Blair - Corporea1 [live]

Electric Clouds (w/ Iceboy Violet)

taken from "𝓈𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒶²²⁰⁵ (charity compilation for Maciek)":
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/charity-compilation-for-maciek

online post-release party:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2638117263136748/

Hi there!

Sorry to bother you & writing about this so late, but the case is really urgent and important . .

We're running a pretty sexy label called glamour.

A few days ago our friend survived a major accident and he ended up being paralyzed from the waist down. He'd been in a coma for two weeks, woke up and doctors said he won’t walk anymore. He created a fundraising page (zrzutka.pl/s33zx9) so we decided to help him raise the money for everything by making a charity compilation that we would release on glamour’s bandcamp.
We wanted to ask, if maybe you (or any befriended musical project you know) would like (and could of course!) to be featured in such a compilation? For now, we have 70 confirmed artists (including galen tipton, John Object, Dmitri Mazurov etc.), many more to come.
All the money from bandcamp would go for Maciek. We thought of you because we admire your music so soooo much, and still want this compilation to be pure quality! <3

(The track must be unreleased yet, but you don’t have to make a new piece especially for the compilation. You can even give us something you’ve created some time ago but never published it.)

Thank you for your time!

Wiv love,
glamour

Maciek:
zrzutka.pl/s33zx9

artwork by Sam Balfus
www.instagram.com/balfua/

master by Bartek Kujawski
8rolek.bandcamp.com

𝒢°07

John Object - Scream/Scream

Blooooom3

ArachHE web guardian https://arachhe.bandcamp.com/

Endchantment EP on @slagwerk

Quantum Natives (@quantumnatives)

NettleHelix (QNR030)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dfi5de87s8uyq22/Yem_Gel_-_NettleHelix_%2528QNR030%2529.zip/file

NettleHelixed (QNRX030)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2oxljo5vyoprgxi/Yem_Gel_-_NettleHelixed_(QNRX030).zip/file


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