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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)

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Taken from Ludwig Wandinger's sophomore album 'Spiritual Decay' (G&P022), out September 2022

The name of many talents - Ludwig Wandinger - has been echoing in the experimental scene for quite some time. This comes as no surprise, as the already renowned Berlin based polymath channels his full-time effort partly into playing live drums, producing his and other people’s music and creating multidisciplinary visual art. Following multifaceted solo projects on labels Average Negative/Alpha Pup Records and Orange Milk Records, Gin&Platonic are delighted to present Ludwig's exceptional sophomore full-length album 'Spiritual Decay'.

Written & produced by Ludwig Wandinger (@ludwig-wandinger)
ludwigwandinger.com

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Photo by Sophie Klock

G&P022 💀

Spiritual Decay

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Mirror Chamber is, alike other tracks on the 'Thoughts on Manifolds', an audible statement of an otherworldly architecture - a mind's outlook into one of many futures shaped by Blank Wall Season. On this track the Turkish composer & sound editor Kaan Işık teams up with forces (Infinite Machine, Failed Units), sharpening the edges to the glass shards of the chamber. 

Label statement: "Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by Blank Wall Season is a feather light, mixed-material showroom of synthetic objects, constantly rolling, constricting, zooming, bubbling, evoking some vast space. Impossibly thin, transparent foil, crisp, ice cold fluids, metal on rubber impacts etching elaborate diagrams and schemes into ambiguous, lush techno-reminiscent chords. The sound arrangement here is akin to a granular breeze, like an alien meteorology, a particle simulation turning into a textural primordial soup. Constantly in acceleration or deceleration, the listener knows every vast saturated pad is seconds away from the rush of a blast-off, almost intolerable G-forces, images flashing in front of one's eyes, bullet-like hard pans. These operations are like a valve being turned, the sudden pressure release causing a stream of some noble gas being set free, or opening a shutter suddenly providing a flicker of light highlighting the contours of some cavernous lost zone.

Out on August 28, 2022 on tape & digital on Genot Centre. Recorded, produced and mixed by Kaan Işık. Mastered by Wim Dahaen. Designed by Bora Başkan. Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes. Artist photos by Cem Güven."

Pre-order: https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-on-manifolds

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Thoughts on Manifolds

Premiere: Blank Wall Season - Mirror Chamber (with forces)[Genot Centre]

Montréal’s Amselysen returns to @genotcentre with an album of wild vocal mutations and electro-acoustic experiments

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-amselysen-misery-feat-ubu-boi

Organe Solaire

Premiere: Amselysen ‘Misery (feat. Ubu Boi)’

Get the tracklist: https://blrrm.tv/3NzZ0ju

Not for the faint of heart, maybe for the hard of hearing. @kavarimusic devours Hard Dance 169.

Hard Dance 169: KAVARI

Misinput Tycoon (GEN052) is an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student, and sought-after producer Roland Nagy (previously on Infinite Machine or Pointless Geometry) says about his album:

“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

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Misinput Tycoon

Premiere: Fausto Mercier - softlock by default [Genot Centre]

RRRRRRAFAEL by https://soundcloud.com/rhunterrrr out now on Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it/Stream it now // http://bit.ly/gen034_links
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/rhunterrrr
Cover by Aleksandar Vučenović // https://soundcloud.com/1000amen
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

rrrrrrafael by r hunter is a huge spectral panorama held together at the seams by precise percussion flickering between creaky electroacoustics and punchy HD SFX. The treatment of the sound material here is like hearing the hallucinatory product from a noise removal algorithm pushed beyond its intended domain, something uncompromisingly sharp, rippling, ringing, totally embracing its own digitality. But this digitality is not a cold digitality and finds its counterpoint in various organic interventions, ranging from liquid bass stabs to autotuned lamentations to oceanic drum kit adventures. Throughout this translates into variously sized tension-release-structures keeping these pieces breathing and moving as crisp dsp and smeared tones lose and again assume form, the density of the discrete sound components always allowing for new permutations.

"The process of writing rrrrrrafael was a deeply personal experience that occurred during an intense period of musical growth in my life. Amongst the discourse around de/re-constructing club music, I instead relied upon a fairly abstract musical constraint by asking myself the following question: How would you reconstruct music from your mind’s image of sound? I approached this by using a symbolic method of composition, creating graphic scores and making macro-structural decisions based upon my experience of what sounds ‘look like’ before committing to any audio. Because of this, a lot of the sound design is a functional result of different emotional states that I experienced rather than a conscious effort to capitalise on aesthetic complexity." 
(r hunter)

rrrrrrafael

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r hunter - rrrrrr (GEN034)

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Fausto Mercier - Misinput Tycoon (GEN052)
Amselysen - Organe Solaire (GEN051)
Blank Wall Season - Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050)
Klahrk & KAVARI - Wax (GEN049)
ubu boi & r hunter - A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048)
Giant Claw - Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021 (GEN047)
ABADIR - Pause​/​Stutter​/​Uh​/​Repeat (GEN046)
Eilien - Digital Lovers (GEN045)
QOW - Dawafer (GEN044)
Amselysen - Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043)
Euglossine - Blue Marble Agony (GEN042)
adaa - ok im real i think (GEN041)
My Cruelty - The Secret Weapon (GEN040)
Quantum Natives - Silent Night (GEN039/QNR034)
Fausto Mercier - FULLSCREEN (GEN038)
Corporation - Graffito (GEN037)
Mor Air - Life Behind Glass (GEN036)
Ice_Eyes - Individual Drops (GEN035)
r hunter - rrrrrrafael (GEN034)
I am just a Pupil - Classical Classics (GEN033)
Jano Doe - Duranzie (GEN032)
Æthereal Arthropod - Opilio (GEN031)
Laura Luna Castillo - Laminares (GEN030)
Tereshkova - Collapsed Lake (GEN029)
German Army - Terroir Place (GEN028)
21st Century Wolf - City Zen EP (GEN027)
Ten Hyphen Twenty - In-Store Music (GEN026)
woopheadclrms - vs o​.​t​.​O​.​g​.​I (GEN025)
Lišaj - Mezina (GEN024)
Wrong Dials - Hello Brightness My New Sex Friend (GEN023)
Forces - Plastisphere (GEN022)
Bonie Jash - Shirase (GEN021)
AF85 - ハイパーオリンピック (DIAMOND EDITION) (GEN020)
Percival Pembroke - Arpeggiatorworld​+​+ (GEN019)
HDMIRROR - ANTHEMS (GEN018) 
Enchanted Lands - Feed Goals (GEN017)
The House in the Woods - Paralysis (GEN016)
Izanasz - Spectral Cascades (GEN015)
Luna & Tarnovski - Luna & Tarnovski (GEN014)
Ecto Mist - Equal (GEN013)
Aghnie - Club Envy EP (GEN012)
Iku - Fugue (GEN011)
Dane Law - r.bit (GEN010)
Bryce Helm - Persona (GEN009)
Cass. / Dudal / Stijn Hüwels - Silent_Night#4: Dauw (GEN008)
Liminal / Aires - split (GEN007)
HERBARIUM - DIVINE HERBA: EXTENDED (GEN006)
Lišaj - Szara EP (GEN005)
Lee Chapman - Silent_Night#1: bar do thos grol (GEN004)
MB03 - Jackie World (GEN003)
Lee Chapman / Wim Dehaen - Voices & Allusions / Benidorm Hotel (GEN002)
Percival Pembroke - A Course In The Theory Of Drones (GEN001)

r hunter - rrrrrr (GEN034)

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