Name: The Dying Robot by OBLONG Grim
Duration: 3 min 3 s
Description: A slow techno lament for a dying machine. In a forgotten future, a robot wanders the decaying world, unsure whether it is corrupted or the world itself is. This track blends industrial ambience with a slow rhythmic pulse, echoing the last thoughts of a fading artificial mind.#industrialtechno

This 3-minute digital spiral unravels in waves of corrupted beauty, dragging the listener through a haunted datascape where order has collapsed but the machine continues to breathe. It opens like a transmission caught mid-static, spitting fragments of signal and noise, then dives into a rhythm that jerks and stutters like a ghost trapped in code.

At its core, Glitch is an exploration of broken patterns — stitched from splinters of melody, malformed percussion, and the eerie calm of intentional instability. Midrange textures fracture and collide, sometimes suffocating each other, sometimes blooming into strange harmony. This is not a dance track, but a dance with failure — controlled chaos that walks a tightrope between collapse and cohesion.

Moments of clarity emerge, only to be swallowed again by distortion and digital rot. It’s a track that challenges the ear — not with loudness, but with detail. The glitches aren't surface decoration; they’re structural, architectural — the bones of the piece.

For fans of Autechre, early Aphex Twin, or the more cerebral corners of industrial techno, Glitch offers a glimpse into an ecosystem where sound behaves like malfunctioning memory — unstable, unpredictable, and uncomfortably human.

Data Rot

A slow techno lament for a dying machine. In a forgotten future, a robot wanders the decaying world, unsure whether it is corrupted or the world itself is. This track blends industrial ambience with a slow rhythmic pulse, echoing the last thoughts of a fading artificial mind.#industrialtechno

The Dying Robot

"Amenion"
A descent into sacred distortion. Metallic drones and fractured pulses shimmer like stained glass shattered in zero gravity. "Amenion" is both prayer and decay — a whispered liturgy from a machine dreaming of holiness, then forgetting the words. Echoes of awe, filtered through static and ruin.

The Dying Robot

OBLONG Grim

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