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Carnyx

skee (Jennifer Walton Remix)

@design-default - Quartz Silica EP
Format: Digital
Release: December 2nd, 2022
Artwork by Benfika

Marking the 100th record of the imprint’s prolific history, Infinite Machine are proud to present the release of Quartz Silica EP by new-comer Design Default. A self-described ‘tone scientist’, the Parisian delivers a 5-track of uniquely textural compositions which map out a sonic world influenced by dystopian anime titles like Trigun & Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like many on the IM discography, Quartz Silica acts almost like a simulation or audio-film representation of an abstract space you’re invited to traverse.

The EP opens with ‘Between Wasteland and Sky’; percussive assault on your senses which clearly exemplifies Design Default’s meticulous approach to sound design. Every detail, every sample and every automation is carefully considered to add to the heightened affective theatrics heard here.

‘A.S.K’ follows things up on this release, a highly inventive composition with a loose structure that evolves from phrase-to-phrase, refusing to sit still. Design Default’s interest in jazz and free-form arrangements is married up with an angular sonic palette of industrial groans and splutters; generating the impression of hearing a glitch (or hiccup, even) in the machine. There’s something refreshingly playful about the maximalistic breakdown of ‘A.S.K’ akin to the wry smile found in some of AYA and her YCO label’s output.

After two highly frenetic tracks, Design Default turns the tempo down slightly with the groove-laden ‘S.E.E.D.S’. Layers of rich, fuzzy synapses phase in and out of prominence over a bed of complex drum programming. The producer deploys negative space here to great effect, with the absence of a drum hit or sample where you might expect one adding to the hypnotic rhythmic swing of ‘S.E.E.D.S’.

Rounding out the originals of Quartz Silica EP, ‘SILEX’ is a club-ready construction with a paint-shaking bassline which seems to slip downwards in pitch as if it can’t get steady footing. Again, Design Default’s tone science/alchemy shines through clearly here, with stutters of melodies, bursts of white noise and stacked drum patterns managing to sit cohesively in this dynamic expanse.

Fellow Parisian De Grandi jumps on remix duties for ‘S.E.E.D.S’ to finish off the EP. The Paradoxe Club signee adds further syncopation and strips the original’s elements down to its fundamental core. The results are a spectral creeper of a tune - built almost intentionally with dark, low ceiling environments in mind.

Design Default - SILEX

SAPPHIR 22 - KIMICA CLUB

Producción : Sapphir 22 ( @sapphir22 )
Mezcla : Sapphir 22 ( @sapphir22 )
Mastering : Medix Cielx
Artwork : Jai Jiu

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SAPPHIR 22 - YUTSIL CHINÍIL

AS Robot Labor Isn't Working

Lao - Sendero
https://laolaolao.bandcamp.com/album/sendero-2

Master: Imaabs 
Arte: American Artist – No State (2018) 
141 teléfonos de aluminio, silicon, vidrio. 
Cortesía del artista y de LABOR, Ciudad de México.

Lao & Dj Fucci - Alarma

Written & Produced by ORROR & thirtymillion.
Artwork by Mischi Mermaid.

https://orror.bandcamp.com/track/tongue

Tongue

jaijiu :: CASCOTES Y TERRENO

The Mexican scene stalwart El Irreal Veintiuno gives his boldest project to date with a first long-length album for the Montreal-based imprint Infinite Machine, at the crossroads of prehispanic sound studies and forward-thinking Latinx club aesthetics.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/el-irreal-veintiuno-infinite-machine-represion

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PREMIERE: El Irreal Veintiuno - Represión (Infinite Machine)

Swan Meat, ‘Cream’ (2018). Courtesy the artist.

Cover by Mathis Pettenati
https://www.instagram.com/mathispettenati.sud/
Free dl
https://www.instagram.com/tristan.brundler/

This Dream Was So Intense

"If you had to live your life over and over again for eternity, how would you live it? What does making choices mean? The contingencies of a life unravel my senses."

Throughout the course of 10 tracks of ‘Wiederkunft Eternal LP‘, the debut album by German producer thirdworldlabour, a digitally cold climate dominates throughout while a specific kind of affectivity is captured in each track. The sound design ranges from emotionally brutal (within) and uncanny (diminished spirits) to blissfully divine (a seamless float to another dome). An emphasis of using chopped vocal samples together with choir-like ambience often creates an ethereal atmosphere which subsequently is shattered by seemingly primitive and at times overtly mechanistic drum programming. Repeatedly Cryogenic synth melodies are paired with unwavering percussion that evoke connotations of fully automated, industrial production processes (many fathers/ancestral transition). Whereas in other parts, steady vocal arpeggios prevail in a textural landscape which seems to dissolve itself into non-physicality (disintegration II).
Reflected in the works title, the album draws upon the concept of the 'Eternal Return' which has its origins in non-western philosophy. The concept relates to the notion of pre-determinism and assumes that time and space are infinite progresses in which the individual is living their life over and over again in a never ending recurrent cycle.
Wiederkunft Eternal examines said concept within the expressive potential of sound and specifically tries to investigate the relationship between hope and despair as central themes in human experience.

all tracks by @thirdworldlabour
mix & mastering by @wimdehaen
visuals & cassette design by Ver
instagram.com/psalmsofver/

LP/CASSETTE

THIRDWORLDLABOUR - DIMINISHED SPIRITS

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Founded in Montréal, Est. 2011 by @xwolfcultx.

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