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

trngs - Organic Fabrication Core (IM091)

Candle Stick Mansion

FROM CLAM012 | EMULATION OF US

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam012-emulation-of-us

out 11/03/2022

@sineraw

SINERAW - VERY ANGRY TYPING

@comastasis - Ross 308 EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU005, out Apr. 29th, 2022]
* featuring remixes by @exmantera and @yikii *

Comastasis (he/him) is a producer and DJ based in Helsinki, Finland who manipulates an incessant flow of sound stimuli and sonic violence bursts in the shape of abstract post-club outings, influenced by grime and industrial music. After hosting “Stagnant” paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/track/comastasis-stagnant, one of his many remarkable tracks, inside our 2020 mammoth v/a compilation “WE NEVER WILL”, we are so glad to present you his latest work which furthers the producer’s investigations into heavily rhythmic, unsettling experimental music: Ross 308 EP.

Named after the proprietary commercial name of a particular breed of chicken, bred for life in atrociously overcrowded warehouses to grow as fast as possible (thereby often incurring dramatic health conditions leading to organ and bone failure) so to maximize profits of the corporate machine, the release revolves around the feeling of melancholy and world-weariness which, in the case of factory farming, has been condensed into a single physical representation in a time and space. The sound palette used by Comastasis captures the anguish and the stench exhaling from the slaughterhouses and constricts it into music. A perpetual swarm of stress-drenched flesh turned inside-out washing over you; a passing swirl of tendons snapping at the root of your ear with ASMR-like quality and putting you in intimate contact with agony and embedding you in their misery.

Ross 308 EP is composed of three original tracks and features remixes by the Finnish multidisciplinary artist @exmantera, and by the singer, poet, artist, and music producer @yikii, based in China. While the former provides a both rusty and sharp, clangy re-interpretation of the eponymous opening track which manages to even turn the knife in the wound, the latter offers an eerie re-interpretation of the Fermented Biomass composition in the form of an eerie industrial ballad, a dark, sneering lullaby for dismembered and mangled limbs.

Ross 308

Name-your-price DL

Comastasis - Ross 308

First single from Wax (GEN049) out on May 22 on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

On Wax (GEN049), https://soundcloud.com/klahrk & https://soundcloud.com/kavarimusic pair up to present a basket of hammering, blasting club tracks with a focus on radical digital sound manipulations. The duo presents a sound design show-off consisting of raspy stretch algorithm artifacts, vocoded pulses and slimy granular flurries. Rhythmically, high impact overdriven kicks and syncopated motifs give the tracks a high energy urgency and momentum. Simmering, crusty chopped up break beats accompany stroboscopic pads, glistening metallic percussion and sweeping electro-acoustic gestures. Maneuvering naturally between almost snapping, bursting, fragmenting passages, effervescent glistening chords sometimes emerge, ready to get whacked by mangled, contorted drum machine outbursts.

// About GEN049
/ https://soundcloud.com/klahrk about the album
“This project with https://soundcloud.com/kavarimusic has been in the works for many years and I am so happy that it is finally being released. I have known her for almost 5 years now, and we have been making music on and off together throughout this time, resulting in this project. We finally met in person last year, which was really special and I cannot wait to share this music we have made together, especially via Genot Centre.”

// BIO
/ Klahrk
https://soundcloud.com/klahrk is a London based artist, producer, label owner and DJ. The founder of Ware Collective & an affiliate of Activia Benz and SFX, he has released projects spanning across many mediums. 

/ KAVARI
https://soundcloud.com/kavarimusic is an artist, music producer, and DJ based in Glasgow, Scotland. 
Having been nominated at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards for 'Best Electronic' Artist in 2022, her work has been covered by the likes of DJ Mag, Low Arts Club, Resident Advisor, Glamcult, Mixmag, and many more. Growing a reputation for herself as arguably one of the fastest growing names in the Scottish underground music scene. 
Fashioning a sonic landscape of corroding textures that interlace with fragile ambiance, KAVARI lures souls to dance together in purgatory.

Klahrk & KAVARI - Wax (GEN049)

MAXXXING

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-HYy3-1iP8

F4ILURE
insert definition here:

BIG DIOMEDE 65.7783°N 169.0666°W.

 Don't climb seats. ...Move away from the plane. ...Stay in the area. overstimulate and repeat until failure.  If stars aren't falling, they can't hurt people. 


F4ILURE:
@3yyccee
@trngs
@aetherealarthropod

https://www.instagram.com/trngs_____/
https://www.instagram.com/tryce__e/
https://www.instagram.com/aethereal_arthropod/

ff:
https://formforum.bandcamp.com/

F4ILURE - Diomedes

MYEN - THE FASTEST YEAR

@tcvbln
@personalbrand

No more dystopias, please. The end of the world has been a prevailing theme of so much club music in recent years. On GLOBAL METANOIA, 10 artists choose instead to explore how an injection of hope might lead to something far more radical. 

From Beatrix Weapons’ cathartic mashing together of IDM, industrial, and breakcore, to SUTA’s bubbling experimental pop, to Die In Polar’s vocalising over a pounding high-speed tresillo, the producers featured here not only push club music deep into adventurous new terrains, but manage to do so with a genuine smile.

GLOBAL METANOIA

TCV x personalbrand - Cardiac Arrhythmia

LASER BEAMS

i lied    ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮͢͠ͅฐ.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅ.̵̶̨̖̤̫̫̗̞͟ฐ้ف̶̶̷̵̡҈̧́͘͠҈͏͏̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛҈̛́̀́͢͜҈͟͢͠͡͝͡҉̶̶̷̵̡̧҈́͘͠͏͏҈̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛̛́̀҈́͢͜͟͢҈͠͡͝͡҉̶̵̵̢̨̀͟҈͡͡͏҉̢ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅฐ้
 ه҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈Ͱ͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉Ͱ҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟Ͱ҉̅҉̅҉̅҉̅҉̅Ͱ҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈.
                                                               ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮͢͠ͅฐ.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅ.̵̶̨̖̤̫̫̗̞͟ฐ้ف̶̶̷̵̡҈̧́͘͠҈͏͏̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛҈̛́̀́͢͜҈͟͢͠͡͝͡҉̶̶̷̵̡̧҈́͘͠͏͏҈̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛̛́̀҈́͢͜͟͢҈͠͡͝͡҉̶̵̵̢̨̀͟҈͡͡͏҉̢ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅฐ้
   
@nickleon title track remixed by @28082 and @echavox (011668 / 16108000)
ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅ.̵̶̨̖̤̫̫̗̞͟ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮͢͠ͅฐ.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅ.̵̶̨̖̤̫̫̗̞͟ฐ้
released by TAR (@wearetar)
https://soundcloud.com/wearetar/sets/nick-leon-totem

  ฐ้้ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮͢͠ͅฐ.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅ.̵̶̨̖̤̫̫̗̞͟ฐ้ف̶̶̷̵̡҈̧́͘͠҈͏͏̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛҈̛́̀́͢͜҈͟͢͠͡͝͡҉̶̶̷̵̡̧҈́͘͠͏͏҈̷̴̴̷̶҈̨̨̧̨̛̛́̀҈́͢͜͟͢҈͠͡͝͡҉̶̵̵̢̨̀͟҈͡͡͏҉̢ฐ้้ฐ้้.̸̗̪̞̞̼͓͍̮̝͢͠ͅฐ้

Ͱ͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉Ͱ͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉ه҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈Ͱ͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉Ͱ҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟Ͱ҉̅҉̅҉̅҉̅҉̅Ͱ҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈̟҈.

remix art by echavox

Nick León - Totem (_ 01 1__6 6 8 & S280F Remix)

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PAYNOMINDTOUS is a music webzine, event series, mix series, and netlabel. We aim to trigger change within the Italian music scene. We support border music styles and explore unsafe sound territories. We want to grow a community of people united in mutual support and unconditional, careless passion.

Comastasis - Ross 308

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