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PAYNOMINDTOUS RELEASES

@cupocupo - Armor EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU004, out Dec. 3rd, 2021]

CupoCupo is a duo of musicians hailing from Bergamo, Italy, presenting their second work after the debut ‘Hypermetabolism’ EP out earlier this year on the US label @wearetar. Coming with an album cover by the Italian visual artist eurasiandesert [https://instagram.com/eurasiandesert/] and an official two-sided A5 300 gr. cardboard artwork print, the 4-tracker release is a coherent, eventful episode of knife-edge post-club hybridization, a treasury of outstanding sound design skills, vicious bass handling, and rhythmical obsessivity.

The centerpiece of their work is extensive vocal manipulation, employing voice chops with the role of primary composition tools within the multi-faceted pieces rich in heavy kick drums, snappy percussions, and gurgling vibrations. Drawing influence from contemporary electronic genres as well as free-form experimental music, the EP is closed by a trancey, grandiose rework of the opening track Yerro curated by the influential artist @galentipton (she/they), and a somber, pitch-black remix by Italian-based composer and producer @shevsmachine (she/her).

With ‘Armor’, CupoCupo hand out explosions of shattered sounds cramming themselves in turbulent flows of energy, where self-perception is challenged, strength is tested, and certainties are dismantled. Sealed lips utter red-hot rants oscillating from burning outbursts of chaos to sudden clarity. Tragic voices sing penetrating ballads for wandering bodies, waiting for their destiny to manifest and vehemently start opposing it. Light comes with darkness, and anything can be worth struggling for. CupoCupo’s outings are nothing but heartfelt testimony that brighter times are yet to come. Or not. 

01-04: Produced and mixed by CupoCupo. 05-06 remixed by Galent Tipton and SHE/MACHINE, respectively. Mastering by @wimdehaen. Artwork and flyer design by eurasiandesert.

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@shevsmachine is a human producer from Italy creating romantic synthetic scores with the help of computers and artificial intelligence. Her style is characterized by lo-fi IDM. Her official debut EP, Ritual, is out for Ghost City Collective. She has made various collaborations during the years with Antistandard Records, Soul Feeder, Sostanze Records, Biodiversità Records. She is part of the music collective VBRA and, since 2020, she is curating a podcast series on No Joke Radio titled OTHER VOICES. EXTRA: Ritual is a 4-tracks journey through machine meditation. An alliance between cyberpunk futuristic technology and the warm imperfections of lo-fi soundscapes created by humans.

Armor

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CupoCupo - Lava Lips (S H E / M A C H I N E Remix)

@cupocupo - Armor EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU004, out Dec. 3rd, 2021]

CupoCupo is a duo of musicians hailing from Bergamo, Italy, presenting their second work after the debut ‘Hypermetabolism’ EP out earlier this year on the US label @wearetar. Coming with an album cover by the Italian visual artist eurasiandesert [https://instagram.com/eurasiandesert/] and an official two-sided A5 300 gr. cardboard artwork print, the 4-tracker release is a coherent, eventful episode of knife-edge post-club hybridization, a treasury of outstanding sound design skills, vicious bass handling, and rhythmical obsessivity.

The centerpiece of their work is extensive vocal manipulation, employing voice chops with the role of primary composition tools within the multi-faceted pieces rich in heavy kick drums, snappy percussions, and gurgling vibrations. Drawing influence from contemporary electronic genres as well as free-form experimental music, the EP is closed by a trancey, grandiose rework of the opening track Yerro curated by the influential artist @galentipton (she/they), and a somber, pitch-black remix by Italian-based composer and producer @shevsmachine (she/her).

With ‘Armor’, CupoCupo hand out explosions of shattered sounds cramming themselves in turbulent flows of energy, where self-perception is challenged, strength is tested, and certainties are dismantled. Sealed lips utter red-hot rants oscillating from burning outbursts of chaos to sudden clarity. Tragic voices sing penetrating ballads for wandering bodies, waiting for their destiny to manifest and vehemently start opposing it. Light comes with darkness, and anything can be worth struggling for. CupoCupo’s outings are nothing but heartfelt testimony that brighter times are yet to come. Or not. 

01-04: Produced and mixed by CupoCupo. 05-06 remixed by Galent Tipton and SHE/MACHINE, respectively. Mastering by @wimdehaen. Artwork and flyer design by eurasiandesert.

CupoCupo - Sediments

CupoCupo - Dragonfly Backbone

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@nikitaw0lfe + @noumenoumeno - "YOU'RE GONNA REGRET THIS YOUR WHOLE LIFE" EP [PNMTU011], OUT ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 6TH 2024
PRE-ORDER STARTS TODAY! [https://paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/]
Cover art by @noumenoumeno + Kenshiro Caravaggio Carena [https://instagram.com/kenshiro_caravaggio_carena/]
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nikitaw0lfe (she/her) is a Rome-incarnated, Milan-based producer, singer, and DJ, matching the description of that insecure but lowkey toxic girl with a dark secret you followed on Tumblr back in 2014 before you lost all traces of her whereabouts. Her musical path started in 2017 under the moniker “TRXSPVSSXR”, mostly meddling with hip hop, cloud rap, witch house, and phonk, to then move to incorporate her vocals into diehard sonic experiments with all kinds of internet-originated music genres, always with a distinctive cursed DIY edge. Noumeno (he/him), a cult artist in the contemporary underground Italian scene known for his outings on the Milan-based Haunter Records among others, defines himself as a mutagen operating through the contamination of music elements alien to one another arranged via preset-core sound design. Some would be able to recall his legendary, truly avantgarde dwellings with mutant trap reworks and edits such as the seminal, age-defining, Steve Reich-ian edit of the UK drill hit “Keisha & Becky” that appeared on our debut v/a comp “WE NEVER WILL”.

These two cutting-edge artists joined forces in 2023 to start a new platform and netlabel called Club Regret https://soundcloud.com/clubregret, a space for experimenting with internet aesthetics and extreme fringes of emo and electronic music. Today, we’re extremely pleased to present you with their latest collaboration, the "YOU'RE GONNA REGRET THIS YOUR WHOLE LIFE" debut collaborative EP also featuring contributions by NikkiCarrera [https://instagram.com/nikkicarrera21x3] and gЯill [https://instagram.com/mttgrll/].

Composed of five tracks, the release spans a length of just a few seconds over 12 minutes. However, each track feels like a heartfelt, life-long introspection exercise thanks to its ability to convey radical, gut-wrenching emotions. Showing an unmatched sound design mastery, nikitaw0lfe and Noumeno manage to craft unadulterated, raw energy into scalpel-sharp, surgical music productions. All the influences that brought the two artists together are condensed in this multi-layered journey through rave-adjacent electronic echoes and alternative rock/metal crossovers, filtered through an emotionally charged lens and expressed via a detached meta-ironic attitude. 

The EP is a fluid, mastodontic sonic creature assailing you with growls, blackened riffs, unforgiving 808s, tear-jerking melodies, and ton-heavy layers of distortions. In their wide music genre explorations, the two artists unleash chaos with screamo episodes only to hit you one second later with a brief but articulate death metal progression, scratchy screams, and the sickest voice drops drawing from a deep knowledge of Internet culture. You will need to go over this record many times to catch all the little facets of this emo, trap, metal, post-club masterpiece. “Here Comes The Pain”: suffering has indeed arrived and it will never leave. Just like you won’t be able to forget about these tracks.

Produced and mixed by nikitaw0lfe and Noumeno.
Mastered by NIKENINJA @user-97111126 at Æxplora [https://instagram.com/aexplora.mix.mastering]

Bandcamp

OFFICIAL VIDEOCLIP

NOTHING REMAINS (ft. gЯill)

GRAVE

HERE COMES THE PAIN (ft. NikkiCarrera)

"AFTERIMAGE" is the latest track from @nikitaw0lfe' & @noumenoumeno upcoming release out on the 6th of December for @paynomindtous

Artwork by IG: @noumeno_mutantboy + @kenshiro_caravaggio_carena
Mastering by Nikeninja (IG: @blacknikeninja) at Æxplora (IG: @aexplora.mix.mastering)

Pre-Order: https://paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/album/youre-gonna-regret-this-your-whole-life
Read More: https://soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-nikitaw0lfe-noumeno-afterimage/

[Premiere] nikitaw0lfe + Noumeno - AFTERIMAGE

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