https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-160-andi-machino-parafernales-ep

The collaborative bi-coastal project between Andi (NYC) and Machino (LA) is dark, spiraling music that conflates the tension of running EBM basslines with the monstrosity of electro-saturated, industrialized beats. In 2021, Andi and Machino began sending music back and forth to each other virtually—thousands of miles apart—as they built upon their passion for creating off-the-cuff, dangerously degenerate dance tracks.

Parafernales, their first release out this summer on Mannequin, is a conceptual EP that deals with power struggles: love and lust, strength and destruction, dominating and domination. Andi's vocals are spoken, whispered, and yelled simultaneously, as if to mirror the mania of having control and losing it at the same time. The EP title, Parafernales, is a nod to Machino's first language of Spanish and stems from the idea of miscellany: it is parafernalia for drugs, or, simply, accessories for unsavory activities. With inspirations from turn-of-the-90s erotic thrillers to the Chilean post-punk band, Los Prisioneros, the duo collide in a manner that is unadulterated and, at times, completely unhinged.

Machino is an electronic performer and music producer from Mexico based in Los Angeles who started out making moody ambient...  more
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released July 7, 2023

First 50 copies come with a unique unique outtake shot printed on 4x6 glossy card stock paper from the shooting of the album cover, at Cristiano Grim's studio in Lower East Side and the legendary dive bar The Library, NYC.

Every photo will be signed by the artists Andi + Machino and the photographer Cristiano Grim.

Parafernales

A2 Secret Games

deconstrucción 

industrial • hardtechno • hardcore

No demos

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