Artist: @curamachines
Catalogue Number: IM080
Album: X E N I A L
Release Date: August 28th, 2020
Format: Digital / Cassette

Infinite Machine presents Xenial by Cura Machines, the synthetic and immersive alias of composer Daniel Lea with three shattering pieces that explore multidimensional resonances and uncanny atmospheres in the most stirring way.

Between the histrionic and the unearthly, Xenial is a ghostly collection of overwhelming aural environments embodied in three soundtrack-like compositions. The futuristic motives of these eerie like soundscapes emerge as a sci-fi narrative that resonate in forsaken surroundings with mythical ambiances.

The EP mixed by Ben Frost embraces vast layers of clanging noises and cybernetic percussions dissolving in sharp synthesizers and soaring harmonies. Disseminated traces of human voices that integrates into a sea of desolated soundscapes composes a recondite and nearly symphonic work that highlights for its incisive and intricate production.

Xenial faces the unknown with poignant sensations. It is an encounter with mystical environments and unbounded solitude of bleary possibilities.

Composed and Produced By Daniel Lea
Mixed by Ben Frost
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios

Daniel Lea: Synthesizers, Sound Design, Voice and Programming
Roberta Jean: Voice on “Xenial”
Beth Kellough: Strings and Sound Design on “Xenial"
Rupert Clervaux: Drums on “Immutable”
Michael Deragon: Processed Guitars on “Immutable”
Yair Elazar Glotman: Textures on “Impossible”

Tracklist:

1. IMPOSSIBLE
2. IMMUTABLE
3. XENIAL

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Saul IQM is a PhD student in cognitive psych studying multisensory illusions - Saul also likes to build data demon motor puppets, make gooey barren masks, critique scientific profit disincentives and their effects on models of the self, mold and cast alginate/silicone precis for reference, mix lush + apocalyptic sounds into dj sets to clip car speakers to oblivion while stuck in LA traffic, etc etc.

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@djdaser1 - Salt Rock
@dmrdnb - Talking
@cashfromhash - Workout
@airmax97 - Eat The Rich
@rapidantics - Radar
@domizako - TTT
@realvanboom & @oldyungmayn - Ayshay
@lowendresorts - Night Asylum
@tatyanajane - Mapanes
@broosnica - Crush On You
@foans - Shadow Flex
@mucachin - J'WADI جوادي
@user-653777249 - Bad Vein
@oldyungmayn - Loran Cleric
@iosistunes - Dream State
@Kontext - Eyes-Closed Film
@kastle - Resurrection - @inmytalonsishapeclay Remix
@cortical_fm - Telúrica
@locr3 - Shiver
@hiimtype_r - Advisory
@0k_i - Misiles Con Alas
@seablaze-amnesia-effect - Amnesia Effect
@aroma-nice - bmw with blacked out windows and 2 subs in the back blasting michael bolton
@smoke-gang-beatz & @varg2tm - Anti Musical Tactical Unit
@offishmusic- Chimera
@yhvhsquad - 白煙 (Xiûa Remix)
@iglooghost - Geo Sprite Exo

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Taken from SBKT070: estoc - Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
Release date: 26th June 2025
Artwork & Design: Amber Jean
Mixing & Digital Master: Nori Kin
Vinyl Master: Raphael Valensi

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estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers.

Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with ‘Heretic’. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. ‘The Weight’ follows directly after. AZADI.mp3’s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, ‘Where Do We Go Now’, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientist’s voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of ‘The Poison of the Centre’. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on ‘No Glory’, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix.

‘Scorched Earth’ lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Body’s co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of ‘Heaven Defined for Another’ rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on ‘Cradling’. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to ‘Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid’ — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, ‘Scratch a Liberal’ — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.

estoc - The Poison of the Centre

Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das - SSAC42
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM120
Format: Digital
Release Date: June 27th, 2025

Tracklist: 

1. everyth1ng 1n l1fe (feat. K_anti)
2. EXT10 (feat. K_anti)
3. dysph0r1a (feat. K_anti)
4. XSCX
5. N0R
6. ap0calypse 42
7. espress0
8. Blue Box Recovery

Listening to Bios Contrast–aka Nilotpal Das’--SSAC42 for the first time might be likened to the experience of watching sunlight shimmering on the surface of a body of water. There is an effortless spontaneity, a mesmerizing ebb and flow. There is a movement which continually reminds us of itself. We are drawn in without needing to understand why. Curiosity takes hold—not a ‘question-driven’ curiosity–but a quiet immersion in the unfolding moment. It feels familiar, but distant; intimate, yet undeniably alien–the more we surrender to it, the more it transforms. We do not give our attention so much as we permit ourselves to drift along. With each passing moment, we are captivated anew, drawn into the throes of unexpected emotion.

The sonic world of SSAC42 seems to pull influence from various forms of electronic music on the fringes. We hear rapid, intricate drum patterns. We feel the warmth of synth textures, the soft glow of ambient pads collapsing gracefully into themselves. The airy vocals of K_anti play a significant role–gliding in over arrangements at unforeseen moments, bringing us closer to something vast and luminous. We never quite arrive, but feel as though we’re always approaching. The tracks are melodic without being grounded in melody. They coalesce, fracture, and reform. A pattern begins, and vanishes, swiftly replaced by something else entirely. Time loses shape; moments of breathtaking stillness recline over fierce drum sequences.

This warping of time is notable in the first track “everyth1ng 1n l1fe”, where soft atmospheric elements churn slowly above chaotic jittering drums. The juxtaposition stirs, generating an ongoing tension that is never resolved. Ethereal, washed out vocals pull us further into weightless expanse. Lush moments build up and transfigure, revealing new forms with each phrase. The second track “EXT10” takes us further into moments of unanticipated wonder. Through the turbulence, shifting elements are not mourned as they pass, but welcomed; we do not question their departure—we move forward with them.

The third composition, “dysph0r1a” opens with a clear vocal presence.  K_anti’s tender delivery occasionally rises above the evolving terrain of synths—fleeting, decipherable, then submerged once again. Later on, the sixth track “ap0calypse 42” carries us through a striking arc: from softness to percussive fury, and back into calm. The transformation is tumultuous, but also cyclical—destructive and restorative in turn.

The shapeshifting quality of the album can feel disorienting. Just as we find comfort and predictability, it dissolves. Familiarity is teased, and withdrawn. Perhaps it is in this instability that the core of SSAC42’s potential lies. As the unending search for meaning in our human lives is consistently upended and reimagined, SSAC42 seems to quietly posit that moments of solace will reveal themselves amid the chaos; wonder and enchantment persist if we are willing to stay open.

Words by M. Elijah Sueuga



Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das - XSCX

Split CD-R with Marcus Whale out now via. Blue Void. Text by Gus McGrath @cbrfreewifi

1. Grasps - You Make It Look So Easy
2. Grasps - YMILSE (Afterimage)
3. Marcus Whale - Eye
4. Marcus Whale - Pit

Lyrics:

I could look into the past
steady open my eyes
Is this all there is
Is this all there is?
Take me by the hand
show me that there's more than gin & wine just to past the time
Can you force a life?
don't watch me die
when I cross the line
Skin porcelain

& give me your hand to hold
or take me by the throat
I got nowhere to go
Walkin' on my own

You make it look so easy
the mind takes, the body breaks weary
You make it look so easy
no more
I can't handle it

https://www.instagram.com/grasps_
https://instagram.com/marcuswhaleinlandsea
https://grasps.bandcamp.com
https://marcus-whale.bandcamp.com

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You Make It Look So Easy

Scrying into the weird and wonderful, dark and twisted, and everything in between. Music to play into broken obsidian mirrors.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kavari/episodes/kavari-5th-july-2025

SCRYING w/ KAVARI 050725

@w_anna_w

https://eco-futurism-corp.bandcamp.com/album/solarmodern-nature-neotrance

W.ANNA.W - Kegon Static Resonance Pulse of Nature [from "Solarmodern: Nature NeoTrance", 20/08]

Finding Sounds ep. 56 - aired on 05/08/2025

Finding Sounds Ep. 56 - Mt. Saint Michel

Compilation of donations for the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Included tracks.
Please check it out.


https://dublabjp.bandcamp.com/album/a-charity-compilation-in-aid-of-the-2025-la-wildfires-resilience

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Artist: @curamachines
Catalogue Number: IM080
Album: X E N I A L
Release Date:  August 28th, 2020
Format: Digital / Cassette

Infinite Machine presents Xenial by Cura Machines, the synthetic and immersive alias of composer Daniel Lea with three shattering pieces that explore multidimensional resonances and uncanny atmospheres in the most stirring way.

Between the histrionic and the unearthly, Xenial is a ghostly collection of overwhelming aural environments embodied in three soundtrack-like compositions. The futuristic motives of these eerie like soundscapes emerge as a sci-fi narrative that resonate in forsaken surroundings with mythical ambiances.

The EP mixed by Ben Frost embraces vast layers of clanging noises and cybernetic percussions dissolving in sharp synthesizers and soaring harmonies. Disseminated traces of human voices that integrates into a sea of desolated soundscapes composes a recondite and nearly symphonic work that highlights for its incisive and intricate production.

Xenial faces the unknown with poignant sensations. It is an encounter with mystical environments and unbounded solitude of bleary possibilities.

Composed and Produced By Daniel Lea
Mixed by Ben Frost
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios

Daniel Lea: Synthesizers, Sound Design, Voice and Programming
Roberta Jean: Voice on “Xenial”
Beth Kellough: Strings and Sound Design on “Xenial"
Rupert Clervaux: Drums on “Immutable”
Michael Deragon: Processed Guitars on “Immutable”
Yair Elazar Glotman: Textures on “Impossible”

Xenial

CURA MACHINES - Impossible (IM080)

Infinite Machine presents Xenial by Cura Machines, the synthetic and immersive alias of composer Daniel Lea with three shattering pieces that explore multidimensional resonances and uncanny atmospheres in the most stirring way.

Between the histrionic and the unearthly, Xenial is a ghostly collection of overwhelming aural environments embodied in three soundtrack-like compositions. The futuristic motives of these eerie like soundscapes emerge as a sci-fi narrative that resonate in forsaken surroundings with mythical ambiances.

The EP mixed by Ben Frost embraces vast layers of clanging noises and cybernetic percussions dissolving in sharp synthesizers and soaring harmonies. Disseminated traces of human voices that integrates into a sea of desolated soundscapes composes a recondite and nearly symphonic work that highlights for its incisive and intricate production.

Xenial faces the unknown with poignant sensations. It is an encounter with mystical environments and unbounded solitude of bleary possibilities.

Composed and Produced By Daniel Lea
Mixed by Ben Frost
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios

Daniel Lea: Synthesizers, Sound Design, Voice and Programming
Roberta Jean: Voice on “Xenial”
Beth Kellough: Strings and Sound Design on “Xenial"
Rupert Clervaux: Drums on “Immutable”
Michael Deragon: Processed Guitars on “Immutable”
Yair Elazar Glotman: Textures on “Impossible”

Tracklist:

1. IMPOSSIBLE
2. IMMUTABLE
3. XENIAL

CURA MACHINES - Xenial

CURA MACHINES - Immutable

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CURA MACHINES - Xenial

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