Obstinacy Does Not Redeem Anyone is the second track in Hate Devours Its Host, a brand new full-length by Valance Drakes, and its third for Amek. Pre-order up here until September 29: https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/hate-devours-its-host

Four years lay between An Angel In Alliance With Falsehood and Hate Devours Its Host, Valance Drakes’s brand new full-length for Amek Collective. This deeply personal record sets the producer on yet another path of narrative-driven musical alchemy. Without a doubt, Hate Devours Its Host is Valance Drakes’ most atmospheric work to date. Multilayered ambient soundscapes and spiraling melodic debris are used not as a backdrop but as the backbone of the record. The producer's signature intricate rhythmic structures, subterranean basslines, and hypnotizing sample manipulation are entangled in this drifting sonic environment. All these elements become an inseparable and emotionally intense whole.

We watched this album grow and unfold. As with all things Valance Drakes, the music in Hate Devours Its Host seems that it can be experienced in a breath but truly grasping everything that lies within requires patience and attention to detail. All elements in Hate Devours Its Host are carefully considered, meticulously organized, and purposeful. This full-length is another showcase not just of Drakes' sound design and compositional craftsmanship but an honest representation of life as beautiful or punishing as it can get.

Produced by Valance Drakes
Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

Amek Collective

Valance Drakes - Obstinacy Does Not Redeem Anyone

A training exercise in Post-IDM.

Credits:
Composer: Ben G. Torrisi
Sound design: Ben G. Torrisi
Synthesizers: Ben G. Torrisi
Programming: Ben G. Torrisi
Sampling: Ben G. Torrisi
Vocals: Ben G. Torrisi

Record producer: Ben G. Torrisi
Mixing engineer: Ben G. Torrisi
Audio engineer: Ben G. Torrisi
Technician: Ben G. Torrisi

Artwork: Ben G. Torrisi

Published by To Hell with Heaven Music
© 2023 Ben G. Torrisi

Effusive - Single

Effusive

This track was made around the factory preset (for me first and currently only time - I found it so interesting!) “POST-IDM” included in the LXR-02. Other instruments employed: Vermona PERfourMER MKII, Behringer Neutron and Exagonal Rooms Insecto N#2 - Grainer - X ( 2.0 )

POST-IDM

We Can't Bleed Anymore 
(I) Revelation
Blinding Fog
Ashes fall like snowflakes
We Can't Bleed Anymore
Psalms

Revelation

We Cant Bleed Anymore 
(II) Warmth
Bloodstained Drone
Final Glimmer
Flowers of Antarctica
Casting a message out to sea...

Warmth

We Can't Bleed Anymore
(III): Liberty Wasn't Here
Lamentation-1
For The Undertakers
Desolate Monotony & Despair
Crying outro

Liberty Wasn't Here

portrayal of pessimistic monotony and despair

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• Booking crew
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self-taught producer, rapper, singer & songwriter
Post-IDM/experimental electronic music

Trying to get away from the robotic & soulless.
Older tracks are private. DM for link.

New tracks tagged #Post-IDM