Artist: @fausto_mercier / @trngs
Catalogue Number: IM091
Album: I'm Too Sentient
Release Date: June 25th, 2021
Format: Digital

Stepping in as a musical match-maker, Infinite Machine has paired up Fausto Mercier & trngs, two boundary-pushing sound designers, for a fresh EP of kinetic and visceral electronics. The pair are well suited to be partners in crime on I'm Too Sentient: both share a meticulously detailed approach to sculpting sounds as well as a keen interest in producing a sonic ‘uncanny valley’ in their output - manipulating organic sounds until their source is barely recognisable.

Fausto Mercier opens up I'm Too Sentient with Overcorp, a dramatic opener which only seems to get more frantic over time. Unfolding like an algorithmic Fibonacci spiral, Fausto’s musical ideas seem to shrink and appear within each other like fractal patterns. Towards the end of the track, the low-end drops out and is replaced by moody pad synths, an uneasy palette cleanser that glides over fidgety samples that refuse to sit still.

Next up, Bite Nails II Assert Dominance is another cerebral hit of complex, polyrhythmic laptop music. The beginning of this track seems far more ‘on-grid’ than Overcorp, but we are lulled into a false sense of security by Fausto who starts nudging samples into unexpected phrasings or squeezing new sounds into inexplicably small gaps within his drum programming. A real head-spinner of a tune!

Fausto’s final offering from the split, O O Doomscrll is potentially the most frantic moment of I'm Too Sentient. Humanoid-esque synths seem to wail through the arrangement, backed up by a punishing delivery of drum hits and manipulated organic sounds. As the title seems to suggest, O O Doomscrll could almost be considered as a soundtrack for our age of digital disorientation and social anxiety.

trngs opens up his half of the split EP with Organic Fabrication Core, a sonic headfuck if ever there was one. Jammed full of ideas and operating at break-neck speeds, trngs background in improvisational free jazz definitely comes to prominence in tracks like these.

Next up, trngs keeps the tempos fast with I'm Too Sentient For My Own Wellbeing - a track which sounds a bit like if Mark Fell had a breakcore side project. Musical stutters and iterative loops are abruptly swapped out for aggy kick drums which cut through the mix like a knife. The name of this song, again, nods to our accelerated virtual culture and the pressures that our contemporary information-overload can exert on us.

Rounding off the split, trngs’ () %%% () is a curious experiment across multiple temporalities and textures. Starting off serene and calm, the production degrades and glitches-out like an alien fungi permeating an ambient music culture.

An enthralling exploration of modern laptop musicianship, I'm Too Sentient is probably unlike anything you will hear this year. We suggest you press play and hold on tight.

Artwork by trngs

Fausto Mercier - Overcorp (IM091)

track list :
broodma - you are prone
villovilduveta - rot
dj gap - free britney
gil - wisp 
wrack - riddim tech
mm - tompocalypse
quest on marc - like this
bapari - only u
limitbreak - imsofreaky
galtier - shine forth
dj mafia boy - don’t stop
viol3t -gateway
russ millionz - big shark
gyro - beat de favelas (antconstantino remix)

Klahrk and Lighght - The Motherfucking Mountaintop
ReckonWrong - Luscious Lips
Piezo - El Sangre
Ship Sket - Every Sky Ever
Santa Muerte - Exus
Severine - Like Blue Horse Running Through Misty Angel
Bad Spin - CORE BAN
Millicent - Uh Oh
Lokane - See Me
Rabit - Rebirth 4
Ship Sket -UAV IN TRENCH
Ship Sket - Dots in the Sky
Vincent Sadowski - Classsic
Richi - Crook [Ship Sket ED1T]
Adamn Killa - HALLOWEEN
Daemon, Modulaw, Xavier Stone - RED AND WHITE
Jonah G - Drudge
SlikBack - SRT
CalvoMusic - Atlantis Level 1.5
Ship Sket - Casino [Can’t Settle Version]
Ship Sket - Hurt My Feelings
A54 Redline - Sophie Hard Vocal Stem
P450 - Updootie Version
Alza54 & P450 - Fleeto
Hitman Blood Money OST - Trouble in Vegas
Cruel Noon - Archipelago

PM NTS w Endgame & Ship Sket (21.07.21)

Shards of foreign signals trapped in amber.
Contained by time and lodged between matter and ether.
Disrupting the scenery and the laws of its domain.
Slumbering in their cradle, waiting to be found.

Produced by lcl_stream
Cover & 3D by Bruno Lauzon-Tanz

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10.4 LCL_stream // Breathe (Philly Edit)

detras de tus ojos miel blend

we got Avas from Chicago/Minnesota and Realcore from England/SF on the show we are so back!!

ONE WINGED ANGEL ft AVAS, REALCORE, THEGN, MATT TECSON

Over My Body x Eastern Margins
ROAD 2 REDLINE: EAST ASIA EDITION
TAIPEI at @final_taipei(10.27.2023)
@overmybodytw @easternmargins
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Youngstar - The Formula
Distance - Collide
Blackhaine - DID U CUM YET (Magnus Brandt Bootleg) 
DJ HEADWOUND - RUSSIAN BENZOS
Basura - Now look at me
Ri Ri - Rude Boy (Ask Me Anything _ Refilled Flip) 
DJ Tim Dolla - Aquafina
Hamdi - Counting
Killjoy - Let’s Go (4x4 Mix)
Drum-X - Crocodile (Original Mix)
Chad Dubz - How Does It Work
Alexander Panos - Cycles
星野- 晚風告白加速版
DJ Taj - How Bout Dat (feat. Mvntana)
Harry Manfredini - The last fight / The chop to the end
Fuuka ASMR - Reconstructed Mimi
TANK JR. - Help
DJ Elmoe - Get The Fuck Up Off Me
TASO TEKLIFE - FAMILY TIES VIP
Dj Babatr - Las Lomas (Kode9 Rmx)
Nikes  -  Brukk
Black Rave Culture - Trips to london (Amal x DJ NativeSun)
Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era - Bust That Groove
Jay Chou-忍者（Toby Davis Jungle Edit）
Creeds - Push Up (BRLLNT Edit)
Anonymous Club/Leech & Izzy Spears - Bleedinout
S.Murk - Put 'Em Up
薄荷水晶babyMINT - R!ng R!ng R!ng (prod. Ɐ.F )
Black Rave Culture - Black Rave Culture ( Amal x JamesBangura)
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Jungle Dub (Here Comes)
Dimension - Dj Turn It Up (Sludge Person Bootleg)
Supa Ape - Fyah
stan made me satiesfied with bubbéli melancholy (pflume reamix) d1
Roni Size / Reprazent - Matter Of Fact
ICQ BABY - AQUECIMENTO DO BOTA
Peterparker69 - Flight to Mumbai (VDIDVS Remix)
Hudson Mohawke - Dance Forever
buffalobang - guide lights NoiseJit - LOCUS SOLUS.FALSEMEMORY

Eastern Margins ROAD 2 REDLINE Tour @Taipei / Mix by DJ HaiLongWang

Alice - Triste et tout seul x gigi.offiiciel 🌤  - 📱 Celular 📱 {mash up}


https://soundcloud.com/aaallliiiccceee/triste-et-tout-seul
(La track de Gigi.offiiciel a été supprimée...sorry)

Triste et tout Seul X Celular {mash up}

DJ COMEDOWN_vakuum RADIO

ALIENBALTAN IS A NEW PRODUCER TAKING ON THE SOUNDS OF JUMPSTYLE AND NEWSTYLE WITH AN APPROACH FOCUSED ON CRUNCHY, ANALOG-DISTORTION BASED SOUNDS THAT REALLY BRING OUT THE MONSTER WITHIN ANY JUMPER.
FROM EARLY ON IN THEIR TIME AS A PRODUCER, DJ, AND ORGANIZER OF DIY RAVES AND SHOWS IN THE DELAWARE AND NYC AREA THROUGH THEIR COLLECTIVE, ANDROMEDA.M4A, ALIENBALTAN HAS BEEN PUSHING THE JUMP OFFENSIVE WITH POWER.

I first met ALIENBALTAN when they were still based in Delaware, they were telling me about how they were doing a little bit of work to maintain a little bit of a friendly status at a church, which would allow them and their crew, ANDROMEDA, to throw raves at night. They were actively
involved in a lot of local scenes, going to raves between Delaware, Philadelphia, and NYC, and had a very involved sense of taking the time to listen to shit going on in every space, seeing what was happening, and trying to bring those sounds to their raves. I eventually ended up speaking to them for a while, and they were telling me about their love for jumpstyle, newstyle, etc, talking to me about UJF and its releases, and of course, mentioning Kaiju Soup, and the fact that their names were based on the same series.

That level of involvement where you actively see what's happening in the spaces around you, how you want to pay respect to those things, how you want to build upon them, that brings a special sort of uniqueness to your sound. You can make some music that really stands out.

The first track of ALIENBALTAN's I had heard was a very early rough demo of theirs from a few months ago called "hipfire," a gabber track with incredibly rough, noisy, distorted mixing, it was really angsty, they were screaming their vox on it. The qualities of the sounds you hear on this album are very obviously present in that track:
The kicks have this very crunchy texture, which I later learned was in part to the fact that they would process their music by making analog feedback loops with a Behringer mixer. They're very short and punchy, and there's a lot of subtle changes in different white noise, and lower volume sounds to create a chaotic energy. Later on, they had mentioned their work on this tape to Jess, and we were both pretty stoked on it.

This whole album shows a well-versed knowledge in the sounds of jumpstyle, newstyle, and gabber, with a totally new, and personal approach to the genres that is done tastefully with plenty of chaos. All boxed up in a complete package like an action-figure, with a destructive and powerful creature-focused alias. - XXHARDBIT3S, UJF CO-RUNNER

FOR TRAX TO MAKE PEOPLE BOUNCE IN THE CLUB, AT THE RAVE, EVEN AT THE NOISE SHOW. LOOK NO FURTHER. ALIENBALTAN'S TAPE IS JUST AS MUCH OF A DESTRUCTIVE MONSTROSITY AS THE CREATURE OF THEIR NAMESAKE. FROM CRUNCHY N' BOUNCY TAKES ON CLASSIC RAP/HIPHOP TRAX LIKE "iceice" AND "jmp_vbs" TO VOLATILE REFRENCES TO CLASSIC JUMP SOUNDS LIKE "bubblegame" AND "eatthepoing" ALONGSIDE COMPLETELY UNIQUE, TEXTURED, TECHY TRACKS LIKE "DISTROTEDFUTURE" OR "BEMULARSLANDING "- THIS TAPE IS A DANGEROUS WEAPON TO LET OUT OF ITS CAGE AT THE FUNCTION. SO BE SURE TO CHECK IT OUT!

JUMP WITH US... OR FACE THE WRATH... OF THE MIGHTY ALIENBALTAN!
UNITED WE JUMP! 
credits


ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY ALIENBALTAN:
www.instagram.com/alienbaltan
soundcloud.com/alienbaltan

ADDITIONAL MIXING AND MASTERING DONE BY UJF CO-RUNNER, JESSXO:
www.soundcloud.com/jesssxo
linktr.ee/jesssxo

[THIS IS A UNITED JUMP FRONT EXCLUSIVE]

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Artwork by @sineraw
Mastered by Jared Leopard at @clubcanthear

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