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 - Organic Fabrication Core (IM091)

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The Art Of Self Sabotage

SMIL3 ft Lag Switch, Tati au Miel, and Blood of Aza

SMOKERPURPP - AUDI [KOPI O EDIT]

The first single from SINERAW's new album 'MIMETIC FAUNA' (G&P024), out August 6, 2023

We're pleased to introduce Francesco G. Gagliardi, also known as SINERAW. Hailing from the picturesque country of Italy, Francesco is a bold producer, a creative coder, a former sound design teacher, a devoted pasta connoisseur, and a very angry typer. Proving his fearless approach to music production, his Discogs diploma boasts a number of contributions to various comps, collab work with Noumeno for which the duo uses the name Hyter, a collab with Antonia TM from Ashida Park as well as solo stuff such as a game soundtrack composition, and a full-length album via CLAM. Our label is now presenting his latest auditory-meatus-bending release, which comes after we extensively relied on his tracks in nearly every DJ set we've played.

Step into the wild ecosystem of scientifically precise sounds that crawl around and gradually reveal themselves, entangled under the dim moonlight. MIMETIC FAUNA compellingly showcases Francesco's expertise in weaving together cutting-edge and groundbreaking sounds. He skillfully constructs pumpy build-ups and blends the invading melodies, sometimes with a touch of soundtrack-kinda opulence, other times with straight-forward trap swagger. The result is a collection of nine incredibly powerful tracks filled with crisp, haunting, and weighty goo, composed of digital and field recorded sound shards.

Written & produced by Francesco G. Gagliardi  (@sineraw)
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Mastered by Fausto Mercier (@fausto_mercier)

Artwork by Jiri Macku
instagram.com/jiri_macku/

G&P024 🐉

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SINERAW - YOU WANT SOFT

@gargantuang x @modern-collapse
Dawn Syndicate 
pirate single 🏴‍☠️
Artwork by Gabriel De Sercey

Gargantuan Collapse - Whole Lotta $$$

Jenn leads us on a blood-pumping ride with SOMA, his sophomore EP out on formforum on July the 11th.
@jennjennnnjenn
With bouncy, yet disorienting patterns that keep you on the edge of your seat, SOMA cranks the tension to max, like a heart-racing POV horror movie, showcasing Jenn's reborn thirst for radical sound wizardry and alien club solutions.
As you navigate through the depths of this release, you may find yourself ensnared in an intricate web of sonic aberrations, questioning reality and wondering what lies around the next sonic corner. Jenn's immersive arrangements convey a sense of relentless pursuit, like sprinting through a dense, eerie forest with a shattered handy-cam, with the same crushing intensity of "The Blair Witch Project."
For this installment, Jenn joined forces with underground heavyweights Talpah, EKSE and TVVASTE, each of whom infused their unique poison to one of the tracks. The EP is completed by Ludwig Wandinger's remix, which feels like the theme of a game over screen. Finally, the chance to regain your breath you were seeking for.
SOMA invites you to surrender yourself to the unknown, to embrace the thrill of the chase, and to revel in the exhilarating uncertainty that lies within. Allow the ominous allure of Jenn's music to consume you, as you step into the dark and twisted sonic abyss he has conjured.
Composed and mixed by: @jennjennnnjenn
Mastering: Raphaël Valensi
Cover Art: Giorgio Cassano

Jenn - Dummy (feat. TALPAH)

@lagswitchmusic

https://lagswitch.bandcamp.com/track/ataraxia
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MYEN, Lag Switch - ATARAXIA

Chaos is order yet undeciphered

HERE PURCHASE: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/mimetic-fauna

Appears on 'MIMETIC FAUNA', out August 6th via Gin&Platonic.

You cannot be stopped, you are a pulverising machine. You are a shredder and a grinder, a tombstone-teethed individual laying waste and flaying paste. You're on a rampage and I like what I see. No ground un-ravaged, no twink un-defiled, no insulin supply un-tainted. You show mercy only once: SINERAW'S 'NO BOUNDS', off soon-to-be-dropped 'MIMETIC FAUNA', forthcoming on Gin&Platonic; you like it, you repost it, you share it widely, you commit it to memory and accost pedestrians extolling its litness. You cannot be stopped.

@sineraw <3
@ginandplatonic <3

Jenn - Dummy (feat. TALPAH)

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