SINGLES

TRACKLIST:
01. Coby Sey - Dew Notes
02. Dasychira - Care's Room
03. Yikii - Cobalt Blue 鈷藍
04. GRASPS - 100000000 YEARS
05. Diego Navarro - Bara No Seidou
06. nunu - Rift
07. Alex Compton - Still Alive
08. Golin - forever x
09. svengali & a.b. thompson - salvo
10. GEWZER - MIRACLES
11. FAKETHIAS - Teeth
12. CECILIA - Neige
13. SCRAAATCH - blue light
14. ssaliva - Limp
15. Spirit Liberation Front - ILLUSION BREAK
16. Hyph11E - Spark
17. Cnámha - Rebirth To Fire
18. PTWIGGS x FALSE PRPHT - Wicked City
19. kittens in the bin - yellow snake

Cover by @lei.1.6 & @hilsth__
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Special thx to Vecteur Dissident & Underscope.

Coby Sey - Dew Notes

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

(from Brother to brother : new writings by Black gay men by Essex Hemphill)

I read this poem over and over an old production of mine (Ableton 8) rerockedt for @ Auto Italia called "a REal Trick" in January 2021. Its only lately that I realized that stories has been and are

Untitled (The Tomb of Sorrow By Joseph Beam)

dayvan cowboy - tati au miel

mastering by @dj-heroin
artwork by Aljoscha Lanz @lordsoft
fonts by Dinamo Typefaces @abcdinamo @fabianharb

nunu - cycle Eight (jetpacc & rare0000 remix)

We should celebrate it together! Proud to present you the first single of Poppy Whispers debut EP 'Aborn Belly', out on Toverberg 13/12! A mix of flamenco guitar and trap beats, live drum samples, and distorted whistles. Hope it makes you curious to discover the rest of this various EP!

Poppy Whispers - Love u

As premiered by The Fader: http://bit.ly/1PcaPVo

DJ NJ Drone (@r-i-p-dj) - Syn Stair LP out now on 12" vinyl + digital via Purple Tape Pedigree

Limited Handstamped LP, 1/50 (Direct from PTP): bit.ly/1X7Es06
Boomkat: bit.ly/21WUvBg
Bleep: bit.ly/1U04Mez
Juno: bit.ly/21hDkIp
Red Eye: bit.ly/1YoaYfw

Mastered / Cut: Rashad Becker for D&M
Art: DJ NJ Drone
Inner Label Layout: Amad Ilyas
Cat. No.: PTP007

Hand-Stamped LP & Digi

DJ NJ Drone - Syn Stair (Blind) [PTP007]

glass in plastic (with arad acid)

artwork by @yikii

vocals by yikii & celes7e 

yikii:

半人半兽
忧伤恐惧
藏在深红纱绸之后

celes7e:

снег растает
смерть настанет
в небо вечность улетает
я рисую в небе звезды
пожирая свои кости


A fallen city blooms in silence
When ashes fly the gates of purgatory are open
A dark moon rises in the sky and begins the prologue to the epic

BANDCAMP

YIKII & CELES7E — FOLLOW THE BLACK ROSE

https://soundcloud.com/eeltankk + https://soundcloud.com/daemondaemon

https://embalminglately.bandcamp.com/album/neon-dawn

GRIP

EEL TANK - SOURCE FT. DÆMON

F20 / DÆ1R
https://youtu.be/b-yVwHLa6Ug
https://fitnesss.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/daemondaemon
https://www.daemonxyz.xyz/

DÆ1R ft. DÆMON & SAJDAH

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7o35XXcttnqCdZj8Xn75iC
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/sermon-4-anniversary/1528586612

Underground media hub Sermon 3 Recordings, founded by established producer and engineer The 83rd, turns 4 years old this August. To celebrate, Sermon 3 will be releasing a special anniversary compilation with a power circle of artists bounded together by its multimedia web.

‘Sermon 4’ bridges together artists from all over the world, as the release opens with a new track from Alice Glass who has laid the groundwork for her fellow mutants to come through. Ghetto house legend DJ Deeon samples Roddy Ricch’s ‘The Box’, Via App opens the chamber releasing the highly sought-after ‘Electromancy (Esh Umaim Version),’ whilst NEUTER//MRTRU3L0V3 flip the switch contributing a luscious deep house record.

Through community activism, DIY shows, underground raves and online forums, Sermon 3 has become a place where underground communities from around the world can find each other. These are the well deserved and overlooked voices that power mainstream society. The black, brown, inner city, queer, hyper-creative, boundary pushing artists that define generations have found a home with S3R. With Sermon 4, this home is also extended to Circa After Death affiliate Odete, deconstructed Latin club artists Meth Math, sound and art performance duo Scraaatch and Oakland visionary DÆMON.


Tracklist:
1. Alice Glass - NIGHTMARES
2. DJ Deeon - Bang Them
3. The 83rd - cleaver
4. NEUTER//MRTRU3L0V3 - bittersweet
5. Via App - Electromancy (Esh Umaim Version)
6. DÆMON - Stay Still
7. SCRAAATCH - u don’t kno until u come
8. Odete - O DIABO
9. Meth Math - aserje20202 

released August 28, 2020

Nightmares produced by Jupiter Keyes, Mixed by Ryan Kaul
Stay Still produced by housepett
Mastered by The 83rd, Track 5: The 83rd, Via App + Bookworms, Track 1: Joe LaPorta
Album Artwork: Jane Pain
Graphic Design: Rage.inald, The 83rd

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6. DÆMON - Stay Still

Artist: @daemondaemon & @therealendgame
Catalogue Number: IM082
Album: DXE
Release Date: October 30th, 2020
Format: Digital

Following up his debut on Chino Amobi’s Intelligent Models with ÆOS, critical lyricist DÆMON teams up with Hyperdub’s affiliate and dark alchemist Endgame for a forceful collaborative EP that summons haunting ambiences with powerful passages and persuading rhythms.

Oscillating between the xenomorphic vocal capacities from DÆMON and the haunting club explorations of Endgame, DXE is a collection of industrial compositions that conceive an esoteric setting where two colliding forces unite for an intriguing and provocative exordium. A correspondence that inherits the divergent influences of the counter cultural soundscapes of Oakland and London - the artists hometowns - in a prodigious way.

The dark approach on the dancehall-inspired vocal performance from DÆMON is a highlight that contrasts with the experimental impressions of Endgame’s production, switching widely from punk to dembow motives within a contemporary take on overwhelming electronic explorations as a divergent complement that enrich the duo's exhilarating approach.

Introspective scopes define each track from the record. Let me breath is a crushing encounter for the prosaic verses of DÆMON, as his spoken word opens up a sonic void with overdrive motives. While the indulging energy of Queue shows off a more danceable side of DÆMON with a demonical dancehall inspired beat, in Eye Teeth, his bars match perfectly with the cybernetic warfare melodies from Endgame. Hearing him sing about being wounded within the act of liberation in Caged consolidates an acute poetry that fits thoroughly within a grinding techno beat, a devastating apocalyptic ballad culminates the record where an ethereal vocal from Deka repeats subtly on 530I.

It might be the presaging lines from DÆMON embracing the powerful and ominous production from Endgame that makes DXE a dark and a futuristic experience, envisioning a forward-thinking piece of puncturing yet suggestive experimental dance record.

Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Francesca Landi

DÆMON & ENDGAME - Eye Teeth (IM082)

Pigeons & Doves

Pigeons & Doves (prod. Modulaw & Xzavier Stone)

Кино (I Dont Want You Anymore)

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"DÆMON (Jahsiri Asabi-Shakir) uses lyricism as a means to express a full spectrum of emotions, abstract ideas, and social commentary. DÆMON draws from his personal experience for inspiration in a dissociative, non-committal manner, illustrating vivid imagery through story telling and an array of literary devices."

Pigeons & Doves (prod. Modulaw & Xzavier Stone)

DÆMON

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