@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.

Armor

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CupoCupo - Lava Lips

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SF.MIX.24 Tracklist

Lechuga Zafiro - Alguna Vez
Medulasa - Carrion Regardless 
kiara oxley - Kiara-Sex (Scream More And More (Put A Dick In Your Pussy)
Alizzz - Flex
b31b111 - luvtapexxx 
ASTRID GNOSIS - GORE LUST
O.L.I.V.I.A - 1=1 
Aghnie - Lipstick Thriller 
Hatechild, CHAi-t - Un Novio
ECSTASYA - SPLIT 
kittenbear - M0R3 TH4N U C0ULD 3V3R KN0W

SF.MIX.24 – AMÆMI

IM097 - @forces-music - Inertia
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: July 1st, 2022
Format: Digital
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Infinite Machine is happy to welcome interdisciplinary artist, Forces, to the IM family with the release of Inertia, Joonas Siren’s fifth album since he began putting out music in 2018. With previous cosigns from Aphex Twin, Zuli & Daniel Ruane, Forces is known for creating sharp digital textures and ever-surprising rhythmic structures using live coding software such as SuperCollider and TidalCycles.

With a background in fine art, Forces is never one to shy away from conceptual thinking about his output and this album is no different. Engaging with the work of theorist Franco Berardi (particularly recent book ‘Futurability’), Inertia tries to soundtrack the political malaise of the last few decades and the growing sense of powerlessness and inability to avoid the many crises generated by the structures of capital.

Forces opens up proceedings with ‘Algorithmic Governance’, where doom-laden bass drones pulse and groan over erratic drum hits which play in alien time signatures, outside of the realm of full, human comprehension. The algorithmic control of the track’s title could refer to Franco Berardi’s interest in social media, a force which simplifies and monetises social communication, or it could refer to his approach to co-creation with his software of choice. With many compositions, Forces sets up rules or parameters in his code but allows elements of randomisation and evolution, inviting SuperCollider’s algorithm to become a co-author alongside him.

‘Morphogenesis’ begins life as a straight-forward, hard techno composition but things are not as simple as they may first seem. Over its 5 minute duration, the stable 4/4 beat seems to collapse in on itself, potentially nodding to the mood of our current socio-economic moment. This is followed up by the formidable ‘Swarm’, a masterclass in algorythmic synthesis that’ll slice your brain in half on first listen. A stuttering of buzz saw-styled synth tones sweep, stretch and pitch bend themselves in ways that would be almost impossible to achieve within a classic DAW.

Named after the Berardi book that inspired Forces, ‘Futurability’ takes things in a slightly softer direction. Reminiscent of early Tim Hecker releases (with an added cybernetic edge), ‘Futurability’ has a sedative yet uneasy tone to it, as if the song is reflecting the dual sense of concern that things should change in society but our helplessness to actually change them, especially in the ecological or economic arena.

A tale of two halves, ‘Soul at Work’ starts out as a blissfully serene piece of what you could describe as code-based shoegaze which is then chewed up and spat out by algorithmic distortion and disorientating glitches from the midway point onwards.

Forces ends Inertia on a more hopeful note with the David Graeber-sampling ‘Horizon of Possibility’. Unlike ‘Soul at Work’, the lush drone work is left intact on this arrangement - maybe signaling the potential existence of different structures that are more positive and robust for all.

With Inertia, Forces pushes his singular musical style even further, to more hyperbolic and emotive heights. Embracing the eccentric randomness of the SuperCollider software and working in concepts from contemporary theorists, this album is a mediation on the current moment created alongside technology that also feels hyper-relevant to today.

Inertia

Algorithmic Governance

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Dj Comedown - Network Gateway / GUEST MIX

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Howling Shore

the first katharsis release of the year is "fun vol. one" by danish nxc - a package of pure pleasure, entertainment and body-oriented recreation <3

original track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDhKVDSGB8&ab_channel=dmumload

danish nxc - bolero

SNIKLS - WIFWIE Schranz Industrial VIP

Doomsday

LET'S GO
instagram : www.instagram.com/thehardesnoize/

Jaden Bojsen & David Guetta - Let's Go (THN REMIX)

All tracks written and produced by Diego Navarro: @diegovnavarro

Artwork by Darío Alva and Paranoidme: www.instagram.com/cavecanems/
https://www.instagram.com/paranoidmeart/

Mastered by Pablo Martín: www.instagram.com/pablo.martin.music/

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"175 millions of years ago a meteor full of life fell into the depths of Earth's primal ocean.

Years later, the last remnants of an advanced alien life woke up from their long slumber as fragile bodies of light. They
began a parasytic relationship with the indigenous underwater species around them.

Soon came the need for expansion, colossal green islands giving shelter to gargantuan lizards acted like a magnet for the frail creatures. They saw powerful bodies, a new habitat.

Here began a massive genetic invasion that changed the natural world forever. The fearsome creatures that roamed the land and ruled the animal kingdom were about to transform into something else.

They were about to become..."

"VESSELS"

Diego Navarro returns to SWEAT with VESSELS [SWT015], a release that represents the first LP in label’s history.

An adaptational and transcendental music trip that not only describes an artistic meaning, but also the creative process of Vessels. What started as a live audiovisual experience (in collaboration with artist Dario Alva aka Cavecanems), has transmuted in an album where Diego goes even further into the wild depths of sound design.

Creating in this way a series of sonic landscapes whose influences range from videogame scores to contemporary electronic music, while at the same time maintaining a personal language.

From the depths of the primal ocean to the lush Jurassic forests, this modern force of nature will end the placid reign of the "terrible lizards". They are now Vessels [SWT015], reconfiguring their ecosystem, changing the course of evolution towards the unknown.

You, the listener, will be part of that change.

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"175 millones de años atrás, un meteorito lleno de vida durmiente cayó en las profundidades del océano primigenio de la Tierra.

Años después, los últimos especímenes de una avanzada forma de vida alienígena despertaron de su largo sueño como frágiles cuerpos luminosos. Pronto, comenzaron una relación parasitaria con las especies indígenas subacuáticas que les rodeaban.

Rápidamente llegó la necesidad de expansión, colosales islas verdes que daban refugio a lagartos gigantescos se convirtieron en imanes para estas frágiles criaturas. Cuerpos poderosos, un nuevo hábitat.

Aquí empezó una masiva invasión genética que cambió para siempre el orden natural. Las aterradoras criaturas que vagaban por la tierra y dominaban el reino animal estaban a punto de convertirse en...

VESSELS"

Diego Navarro regresa a SWEAT con VESSELS [SWT015] una release que supone la primera referencia en largo del sello.

Un viaje de trascendencia y adaptación que no solamente describe el discurso artístico de Vessels, sino su propio proceso creativo. Lo que comenzó como una experiencia audiovisual en directo, junto al artista Darío Alva (Cavecanems), se ha transmutado en un disco en el que Diego Navarro se adentra aún más profundamente en las junglas del sound design más arriesgado, territorios colindantes con la composición para videojuegos y las corrientes actuales de electrónica experimental desde una mirada propia y particular.

Desde las profundidades del océano primigenio a la frondosidad de los paisajes jurásicos, esta nueva fuerza de la naturaleza acabará con el plácido reinado de los “lagartos terribles”. Convertidos ahora en Vessels [SWT015], alterando y reconfigurando irreversiblemente su ecosistema. Desplazándolo hacia terrenos desconocidos y desafiantes para todos sus organismos.

Oyentes incluidos.

Diego Navarro - Selective Memory

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