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2025: Club Diaries

CD + Digital

Abssys - Mis Huesos Son De Colores En El Inframundo

First single from "Stillmother," a new EP from United Rust, the collaborative project of artists @vviissee & @miedototal, to be released 16/04/21 on @1000amen.

Mastered by Maximillian Kritsch

Artwork credits:
Installation - Rebecca Ackroyd
Photo - Stephen White & Co and c/o Lockup International

Stillmother

PREMIERE: United Rust - No Pastoral [AMEN]

IM093 - @soft-matter - Hyle
Label: @infinite-machine
Release Date: August 27th, 2021
Format: Digital

Having unleashed music from producers spanning multiple continents in 2021; (from China to Hungary to Mexico to Greece...), Infinite Machine is poised to release the sophomore EP from the Montreal producer Softmatter - entitled Hyle. Anna Pavlova, aka Softmatter, is an artist and vocalist whose output is characterised by twisted and distorted electronics, heavy-hitting drumwork and mutant vocal samples. With a keen interest in post-human theory, neuroscience and quantum physics; her musical practice explores the fluidity and uncertainty of experience and perception. In Anna’s own words “When I begin the creative process without expectations and embracing uncertainty, I get results that represent me the most.”

Hyle EP opens up with Levity, a track that’s equal parts unnerving and beautiful. Underpinned by bassy snarls and percussion that clicks and whirrs like a demonic ticking clock, Softmatter delivers lyrics (in both English and Russian) that revolve around self-acceptance and a refusal to let the judgements of others affect this self-conception. “Throw your shade if that’s your thing while I am moving freely. Don’t be so sure your expectations carry little weight here.” The icey, affected vocals and the densely layered beat they glide over on Levity seem to acutely pair up Softmatter’s love of both witch house artists like Salem and contemporary innovators like Fatima Al Qadiri and Aisha Devi. Whilst these references are very much on display, Levity still sounds utterly unique and sees Softmatter operating in her own lane.

Whilst the vocals on Levity are basically another layer of sound design in the mix, Softmatter’s voice takes centre stage on the following track, Morphe. The tracks refrain (“Reaching a new high, blood rushing through my vessels”) seems to tap into the euphoria depicted on the EP’s artwork, where we see a light-carrier bringing illumination into the uncertain darkness, providing realignment and acceptance to self. Woven in-between these pitched vocals is a driving, deconstructed beat full of idiosyncratic sonic surprises.

Rounding off Hyle EP, Who Am I 2 U is a ferocious and moody track whose intensity grows and swells over it’s duration. A nightmarish array of guttural samples and snatched synths groan whilst Softmatter sings of how we perceive and connect to each other as individuals; “Am I means to your goals or you see me as an equal? Who am I to you?”

Jumping from rigidity to fluidity, from otherness to unity, from controlling the immaterial to dancing with uncertainty; Softmatter’s Hyle EP packs a mighty punch built on an intriguing conceptual framework and crammed full of bold musical ideas.

Released by:
Infinite Machine
EP release date:
27 August 2021

Hyle

Levity

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TOOL 005

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: SOFTMATTER
Title: Atemporal
Label​: Infinite Machine // 10 Years Compilation
Release date: 3rd Dec 2021

Support the artist & label:
>> https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-machine-10-years-compilation

Follow:
@soft-matter
@infinite-machine

10 Years Compilation

CRUDE Premiere: SOFTMATTER - Atemporal [Infinite Machine]

All the profits generated by the sales of this compilation will be donated to the Legal Team Antiraciste fund, which aims at helping the victims of french police violence and their families, fighting against systemic racial discrimination as well as defending their access to fundamental rights.

Huge thanks to Casual Gabberz <3
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Cover by JB Normand

Softmatter - there will be shadows

evo-lation five is evo-natura's fifth fundraising compilation, featuring Werner Levant, 111X, Hajj, Softmatter, Ice_Eyes, MIRA新伝統, Zaumne.

Focusing on natural sounds, the project skilfully blends field recordings, drones, and electronics, with each artist sonically reflecting towards the subject.

All profits made will be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects. (www.edenprojects.org)

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Curated & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

evo-lation five

Cassette / Digital

Softmatter - Inevitable Fall

Drifting Apart blends raw, nearly-whispered vocal delivery with scorched atmospheric textures and warped sound design – a slow-burning, emotional piece that captures a connection breaking in slow motion.

Written, produced and recorded by @soft-matter
Mastering by Kolya

Artwork:
Photography: Geray Mena
Stylist: Camille Angepailler 
MUA: Naomi Gugler

Drifting Apart

Muscle Performance

Reality Bites

†††
a reminiscence
love
to all my soul companions

Echo Tapes

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Echo is a dancer

‘Altar’ is MAGA’s EP released by Salviatek, a mystical-artistic voyage presented in five acts that together make a free and experimental electronic-organic whole. Glitches and harmonies in constant interlacing, convey dreamy atmospheres that transmit true emotion throughout this piece of work; produced from the global south as an identity manifesto. 

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‘Altar’ es el EP de MAGA por Salviatek, un viaje místico-artístico presentado en cinco capítulos musicales que unidos hacen a una totalidad electrónico-orgánica experimental y libre. El glitch y las armonías, en constante entrelazado, crean atmósferas de ensueño que transmiten una verdadera emoción a lo largo de este trabajo producido desde el sur global como manifiesto de identidad.

Producción musical / Mezcla: MAGA
Mastering: Sky Parnes
Cover: Abril Sepúlveda 

Follow @maga.a

Altar

Plegaria 1: Tengo la sensación de estar viviendo una fantasía

Track by @bladeblanc from compilation "Roadside Picnic": https://eco-futurism-corp.bandcamp.com/album/roadside-picnic

BANDCAMP

BLADEBLANC - Swamp Fuss

Surrender

Sacrifice

bookings: david@transatlantic.earth
contact: softmatter.x@gmail.com

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—  select past shows  —

Oct 19, 2024: Creamcake, Berlin
Apr 21, 2024: Abadir, Chago, Tufi, Isaka; Berlin
Jul 07, 2023: Soulfeeder x Club Sirens, Berlin
Dec 16, 2023: XO Noir: Live set w/ Nthng and Blue Hour, Montreal
Aug 20, 2022: World Creations Studio, Montreal
July 7, 2022: SUBSTRAT Festival at Société des arts technologiques
May 7, 2022: Andy Stott at Newspeak, Montreal
Dec 12, 2021: unrar.me w/ Bloomfeld, Personal Brand, Neutralized, Berlin
Aug 25, 2021 : MUTEK https://montreal.mutek.org/en/artists/softmatter
Mar 13, 2021: COMMON MULTIVERSE by Currents.fm x Infinite Machine w/ Swan Meat, Laughing Ears, Bungalovv, Benfika, Koi, Fausto Mercier & Bonebrokk
May 2, 2020: Club Quarantine w Nkisi, Minimal Violence, Countess Malaise, Korea Town Acid & Venus In Foil
Dec 22, 2020: Untitled: Holiday Edition w/ Reka, Toronto
Nov 2, 2020: SOAKed w/ Korea Town Acid, Honey Drip & Venus in Foil, Toronto
Aug 14, 2019: Solo Show Klub CH25, Warsaw, PL 
July 14, 2019: I Love Promise w/ Fred P (NY), Cherry Beach, Toronto
June 18, 2019: Showcase w/ Cucina Povera & Raf Reza, June Records, Toronto
May 30, 2019: Showcase w/ Bénédicte, Khedo, Embassy Bar, Toronto
Jan 31, 2019: Showcase w/ Korea Town Acid, Embassy Bar, Toronto
Jul 01, 2018: ACT! (FKA Egyptrixx), Così e Così & Cares, Baby G, Toronto
Apr 26, 2018: Showcase w/ Joanne Pollock, Leucrocuta & Sages, Handlebar, Toronto