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"The influence and presence of trap and rap in dance/experimental is obviously massive, and the lines between genres are more blurred than ever. HAJJ, however, says this is a recent thing; “I find that the electronic scene in France is just starting to encourage the integration of this culture. Not so long ago people insulted me when I played rap/trap in my sets.”

The underpinning idea for this compilation brought electronic producers not explicitly of that world to unpick whatever boundaries remain and contribute tracks for a mixtape – while a few of the artists are more obviously ready to “play the game” and already make music which exists pretty close to this horizon, this has been a challenge to think creatively for a few of the other artists invited."
Elliot Stevens for Ifonly

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Track Premiere: ♂♀ by @exmantera [Lost Memory 02 / @worldcanvas]
Read More:  https://paynomindtous.it/exmantera-worldcanvas/
Lost Memory 02: https://worldcanvas.bandcamp.com/
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Based in Helsinki, Finland, the cross-disciplinary platform and record label World Canvas is a hub that has been hosting over the last couple of years serious waves of experimental music in the form of conceptual post-club, glitching ambiance, and disrupted emotionalism. On their catalog have appeared cutting-edge musicians such as luxxuryproblems, Helena Pulkkinen, and Comastasis, while the visual identity is entrusted to the stunning skills and creativity of Gabriel Boicel, World Canvas' co-founder together with Jussi Hertz.

Describing themselves as a place for "unconfined expressions of emotions", and as a "blank surface open to fictional fantasies and outcries of yearning", the collective will be releasing the second installment in the various-artist compilation series called Lost Memory, due Friday, May 28th in digital format. The release will collect contributions from eleven artists with different backgrounds (Keiska and Madrid's Concrete Fantasies among them) who have been tasked with developing compositions around their interpretation of the concepts of escapism and fantasy.

Today, we're happy to share with you an excerpt from the upcoming Lost Memory 02, namely the track titled ♂♀ by the Helsinki-based artist Daniil Mantere aka @exmantera (they/them), who previously released on World Canvas a two-track single called REGEN, contributed to the latest Audio Bambino's compilation, and is also half of the NAIVE META duo. The song is an exceptional compendium of the latest laptop electronics artistic solutions used by inspired sound designers from the underground digital community, developed around distorted synth stabs and metallic percussions and bundled with an eerie and abrasive melody.

The piece, available on our Soundcloud portal, comes with a video clip by Elli Norrlin that enriches the audio component with a visual commentary which adds feelings of desolation and desperation to an already dark emotional setting, shaken by gargling sounds panning through the ears, glitching artifacts, and corrosive wailing. ♂♀ is a black soundtrack for unexplored, repressed memories that leaves space for a suddenly relaxed ending providing the listener an ephemeral glimpse of serenity. Maybe, just at the very end, something good can survive.

@exmantera - ♂♀ [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / World Canvas]

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 - () %%% ()

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The first katharsis release of the year is once again a package of pure pleasure, entertainment and body-oriented recreation from the label-boss under his danish nxc moniker: 7 tracks for the dancefloor or your favourite personal listening space <3

tribute to the amazing original artists: medina, pinkpantheress&icespice, jonasbrothers, deorro&chrisbrown, nellyfurtado&timbaland, everythingbutthegirl & tsha

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All proceeds raised from the sales of the compilation will be donated to funding Palestinian e-SIMs via gazaesims.com (@connectinghumanity_). 

Connecting Humanity is an organisation that provides eSIMs to connect people in Gaza to the internet, giving a voice to journalists, medical professionals, aid workers, families and people documenting the genocide, allowing people in Gaza to stay connected to the world.

Contributing artists: Ship Sket, Crimson Chaos, Apu Nanu, exmantera, aDeAD, xeccute, novasdemise, Golce, h4S, Preost, Capiuz, Misha Faulty, EvaneH, Tommy Ryoma, optionlist, bod [包家巷], Bianca Scout, vorem ipsum, Shast, Silv-o, Tailtiu, Mongleaux, TCV, incel-x, Hellsing, Azrel, Charlie Osborne and Jude Woodhead.

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Written, produced and composed by: Misha Faulty
Creative direction: Dom Paulauskas, Tommy Ryoma & Sam Shepherd
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