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"Having been deck slaying as near their London headquarters as Germany and as far as Canada, goth techno prodigy Lesser Of is steadily approaching double digit release count. With an established residence at queer x trans focused, revolutionary event series Subverted, their efforts have been welcomed to a formidable list of industrial electronic labels and remixed by a tidy sum of high profile scene icons. Here at Depth.Request our sonars are attuned to emanant potential, and so we conscript Lesser Of to hammer out our fourth acetate offering to date. To this, harsh noise and drone music inspirations are declared, alongside an artistic secret of the trade: lights-off sessions in live room of a recording studio vibrating with the pulse of a bass guitar ran through a freeze pedal were what begot the tracks, and they are well intent on assaulting your headphones with noise. Reeko on the remix—yes, this record fucks.

Prolonged, ominous intro? Nah. Have a face full of Crude Manifestation Of Power instead, as an insatiable, 10-minute long opener braces your ears for a week of ringing with a sonic equivalent of metallic thrashing one could expect from being a sinful, rave-lusting scoundrel. On title-diverting continuation Within My Fragility the words "strength in fragility" are truly alliterated as the pace, abrasiveness and intensity of pummeling are all ramped up fiercely, with linear open hats thrown against them from time to time for good measure. Having reached 140 BPM and concrete mean, Masked proceeds in a well anticipated ra(n)ge: infernal atmosphere, sandy hats and layered tectonic tremors achieved with increasingly undefined low end consisting of a rumble line and rolling kick morphing into abrasive haze. Winding the tempo back a notch, a halftime-arranged contemplation Our Descent grows in direct, hyperborean vector: glassy drones and sharp syncopulsation first—atonal reverberations, distorted arpeggios and punchy stabs endwise. Reeko's analog reinvention of Masked convolves the drum structure by borrowing from breakbeat narratives and authorizes the dystopian ambiance to rise and fall on more gradual, panning, confined terms; adding, however, more disorder to the mix with spectrum slicing, high-range chaos.

As you would have learned to expect from Depth.Request, Within My Fragility EP is not an easy listening five-tracker. If by the end of it you find yourself feeling as if you just stepped out of a pounding warehouse at 3AM and you don't know what day it is, you wouldn't have been experiencing this mindspace alone." - rhetor

A1 - Lesser Of - Crude Manifestation Of Power - 10:11
A2 - Lesser Of - Within My Fragility - 5:41
B1 - Lesser Of - Masked - 5:31
B2 - Lesser Of - Our Descent - 4:04
B3 - Lesser Of - Masked (Reeko Remix) 5:26


Release date: October 6, 2023
Formats: Limited edition 12" Vinyl & Digital

Written by Lesser Of
Remixed by Reeko
Mastered by Alain Paul
© 2023 Depth.Request

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Singing & exploring sounds…
eskalia (she/ her) is a Viennese mezzo soprano with Greek and Hungarian roots. She discovered her love for dramatic and sorrowful sounds early in her musical education, an affection that deepened during her vocal studies at University Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2024, she started exploring electronic music herself and since then, aims to pull each listener into an immersive tunnel of extraordinary music and deep emotion in her sets. Among her favorite sounds are classical choirs, human cries and sobbing, harsh electric guitars, melismatic scales, dissonances and different sounds in nature such as bubbling water. 
However, her passion for art and culture extends beyond performing music. She favors artistic and cultural exchange and the synthesis of arts, as well as warm and communal atmospheres. This led her to co-found a Vienna based collective promoting darker and grittier sub-genres of underground electronic music, as well as other art forms @innig-collective

Donations, purchases of my art, followers, encouraging comments always welcome 🩵 

I create both images and music (original, AI-assisted, covers and collaborations). Often need to be in meditation to heal from pain and nerve damage; I apologize if I don't respond to more collab requests until I am in a better place. As my stamina returns for creating original music and collabs, more wonderful releases will be coming later. Namaste, Airie 🙏

Autodidact and musician since childhood; producing electronic music since 2012, originally joined SoundCloud circa 2017. I've lived Straightedge (Vegan & Sober) for many years, which rewarded me with a spiritual (Kundalini) awakening since 2018.

Earned my B.A. degree in Music from Western University (clarinet, 2005) and Fanshawe College Office Administration certificate (2016). I've always loved being a student 💜

During the pandemic, like many folks I was in crisis and lost almost all of my tracks. Very grateful to one of my biggest supporters on SoundCloud, the talented Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference) for having bought my solo works from 2018-2020 that were on Bandcamp, and for him sending them to me ✨

I want to live in a world that's run by Volunteer/Resource-Based/Gift/Sharing economic and Yogic principles, but these principles not yet consistently practiced in tandem with capitalism, has been detrimental to the physical, mental, financial and spiritual health of myself and many others.

I feel the "cerebral" but discordant 440Hz standard frequency of music is a cause of anxiety, nervous system damage, chakra imbalances and overthinking. I advocate for musicians to return to 432Hz, because it's an energetically healing sound frequency.

Industrial-grade sonic wares out of the old country's capital. Limited edition 12" vinyl & digital series.

Con la intención de modificar situaciones cotidianas; la energía entregada bajará un escalón para transmitir tranquilidad y calma.

𝕴𝖓𝖉𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌