Gabber Modus Operandi ready the reissue of their debut album, ‘PUXXXIMAXXX’. Hear a brand new exclusive bonus track ‘Ketewel’ now

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PUXXXIMAXXX (2021 Reissue)

Premiere: Gabber Modus Operandi ‘Ketewel’

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Vocals by Elif Satanaya Özbay, Marijn Degenaar, Mark Prendergast, and Stephanie Overs

Artworks by Metahaven

Mastered by James Ginzburg

Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus, 'Forking; (2021). Courtesy Subtext Recordings, Berlin.

Bin There Vol 1 is the first mini ep in a series of dancefloor singles

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Ziúr - Bottoms

Paranoid Textures

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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Navigating through grimy sound-textures and dismantled beats, trying to channel discontent and confusion. MARAws is a DJ and promoter who is currently based in Vienna, Austria. They are co-organizing the event series Augend&Addend + co-running the cassette label Jeopardize.

MARAws - Avant Radio mix n.107

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‘Non-self 비자아’ is the first EP from London-based, South Korean musician and visual artist Jaeho Hwang. The six-track EP explores his sense of identity in the digital age as refracted through the Buddhist concept of anatta, or non-self—the belief that there is no unchanging, permanent soul or essence in living beings. Inspired by the Buddhist concept of impermanent selfhood, the EP combines dark, industrial club beats with traditional Korean instruments and samples

Jaeho Hwang draws from the dark, stuttering beats from London’s experimental club scene—harsh industrial sounds recall no-wave’s minimalist deconstruction. His use of traditional Korean instruments within this context, like the piri bamboo flute, or the stringed kayagum, recast traditional textures into modern form. On Sad Relationship, Jaeho samples the famous 80s South Korean pop ballad of the same name. The song glitches like a memory, warped and torn by an electronic tumult, and haunted by the original’s sentimental melody.

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Soundcloud: @jaehohwang
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Released by:
Chinabot
Album release date:
1 March 2019

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HAJJ - Shut In Grim

☯XIAO QUAN☯  - Iron Fist (EDT09) 
Limited cassette : 50 Copies
PREORDER NOW _ OUT: JULY 9 2020: https://ernestdtapes.bandcamp.com/album/iron-fist

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All tracks composed and mixed by Xiao Quan
Mastering by Phil Tremble
Artwork by Jean-François Leroux

Xiao Quan - The New Heas Of  The 108 Dragons (Feat. 0111001101110100)

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Release date: 4th December
Artwork by Kim Laughton

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