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NEW EP from Arté OUT NOW.  The soft thermal glow of alchemic ruins force the portal to reveal itself. New realities vibrate beyond pulsing waves of indigo. 

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Arté - "Timefall"

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 - () %%% ()

City & i.o - Chaos is God Neighbour [APP005]

01. Desolate Revenant (06:39)
02. Breach (06:27)
03. Omnistack (06:23)
04. Catacomb (05:38) [with Dis Fig]
05. Descendant Cross (05:28)[with x/o]
06. Bleak Chain (05:13) [with x/o]
07. Unkind (04:44) [with Dis Fig]
08. Bomb-blasted Stack (03:52) [with vvilms]
09. Atlatica (03:24)
10. Circling Orc (03:07)
11. Temprorare (02:22)
12. Marrow (02:20)
13. -20+20-20+20-20+20-20 (02:10)
14. Granular Heater (01:34)

Total running time: (59:59)

City & i.o are:
AW — Audio engineering, synth
FC — Vocals, accordion
MP — Drums, guitar, sampler
VX — Vocals, strings
WB — Guitar, synths, piano

Tracks 4 & 7 written by Dis Fig
Track 5 & 6 written by x/o, City & i.o
All lyrics written by the vocalists
Additional production on track 5 by Aaron Wharton
Track 8 features an extensive sample of an untitled piece by vvilms

Artwork by John Blanche
Additional artwork, design, and Tortured Cybernetic Abomination logo by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Sigil by Julian Butterfield
Mastered by Aaron Wharton

City & i.o are from British Columbia, Canada.

Chaos is God Neighbour

City & i.o - Desolate Revenant

A collection of meaningful field samples gathered in the Hudson Valley, Glint reflects existentially on pain, hope, grief, and memorial. Using personal emotion and connection as a compass, the artist composes based on the natural audio shifts in the environment recorded. Each track references a specific location in upstate New York and creates an immersive experience for listeners.

Glint

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Glint - Full Cavity

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Flewid Out Now!

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Flewid

Lasus - Craters

Ending's

AP/MSM is the forthcoming album by Detroit-based producer Infant. 
Out on April 25 for Rest Now! available on free download and limited edition CD

Produced, mixed and mastered by @infaant
Artwork by Gianluca Lonigro ✶ www.gianlucalonigro.net
Distributed by Rest Now!  ✶ www.takearestnow.com

Recording and sampling are used to recognize and construct patterns from the mass of sonic material and associations present not only in the web’s archives, feeds, and stacks but in memory and personal history. 

Archive Poem was originally intended to be sourced entirely from digital fragments and ephemera found on the Internet Archive. During the development, material from a wide range of sources including social media, voice memos, field recordings, and midi composition has been added. At its core, the piece is an attempt to consciously digest the sonic material of the personal digital life. 

Midwestern sacred music is built from recordings of Catholic masses and contemporary Catholic hymns found primarily through YouTube. Its structure loosely mimics the form of Catholic liturgy. The piece is meant to act as both a critique of contemporary religious spaces and an attempt to transform the sonic material of these spaces into something genuinely personal and meditative.
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Infant — Archive Poem (Excerpt)

@alleycatss

ⓘ solidarity compilation for The City is For All (A Város Mindenkié)

The City is For All is a volunteer based grassroots organization operating in Budapest, in which homeless and non-homeless activists work together for housing rights and social justice. The organization operates as an informal advocacy group.

artwork by ultrabianka
type by Laura Csocsán
mastered by Roland Nagy

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Alley Catss - principles of maladaption (predisposition4sadness)

Taken from @forces-music's new album 'Epoch', out March 22, 2020 via Gin&Platonic

Following Forces’ breakthrough string of acclaimed albums coming out on the key label triad of Bio Future Lab., Conditional & Genot Centre in 2018, we are now more than pleased to extend the output of the Finnish musician and multidisciplinary artist Joonas Siren with his next full-length 'Epoch':

"This is the epoch of uncertainties; of shifting and unreliable narratives, of rising temperatures and sea levels, of growing economic inequality, of increasing political polarization and far-right influence.

’Epoch’ is a testament of these disintegrating processes. It is also a narrative of my own struggles. The album was made during 2019, when I felt that my mental health was unraveling; panic attacks, anxiety and somatic pains left me almost paralyzed before I got some professional help.

My personal troubles can be seen as an indicator of the general political, ecological and social problems. There are many new studies, how the looming possibility of climate catastrophe is causing anxiety and mental health issues.

Besides the disastrous effects on climate change, late capitalism is also causing problems on a societal level. The job and social security is poor, especially for younger generations, which in turn generates even more distress, alienation and mental instability.

How to remain hopeful in this situation? Rather than reverting to abandoned nihilism, I believe in the force of grassroots activism. Not everybody has to be like Greta Thunberg, but her actions can be seen as an illustrious example, how you can actual make a difference.

The album maps out all these topical ideas sonically. Collapsing sound material, unsteady temporal structures, noise and distortion build up intensities without catharsis. The tracks are made with different live programming techniques, peculiar time-stretching and layering techniques and other VST and FX’s dysfunctions.

Within the mournful aural chaos, there is a potentiality for change."

- Forces aka Joonas Siren

Produced by Forces
@forces-music

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
@wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

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Epoch

Digital & Cassette

Forces - Somatoform

produced by Jæce
mixed & mastered by Ari Solus

cover art by Umico Niwa
(curated by Final Hot Desert)

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goyaconnect.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

(Goyaconnect)
True story of it all 
Of it all 
Of it all
Of it all 
Of it all
You're nothing without the trauma that you experienced 
You think its part of you enough to the point to where if you remove it or take care of it you become nothing you'll become nothing you'll become the point that people are afraid of 
Is that something you're afraid of?
To just become someone who doesn't have to cry when you look in the mirror look in my eyes
Tell me if I’m right

Tell me if I'm right when I say that you don't wanna get better
You just wanna feel the letter from the letters
Pile up It’s getting higher than the tower of babel
Falling over in canyon 
Fallin over, now you

Just a part of another wall that you're facing
Just another fucking face crushed in
To the wall


You're nothing without the problems you cause
The problems you cause
No
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
Yeah
You're nothing with
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
The problems you cause

What do u want 
What do u want tell me what do u want 
What do u want

(Jæce)
Blunt force
Blunts burn
Months burn
Loves concerned
Scars and burns
You don't hide them from me
Excited to see
You striving to breathe
Exile
Anxiety
Try piloting this getaway van
Hell of a heist
Hell of a price
Getting away with stealing back your own life

(Goyaconnect)
Tell me if I'm right when I say that you don't wanna get better
You just wanna feel the letter from the letters
Pile up It’s getting higher than the tower of babel
Falling over in canyon 
Fallin over, now you

Just a part of another wall that you're facing
Just another fucking face crushed in
To the wall

You're nothing without the problems you cause
The problems you cause
No
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
Yeah
You're nothing with
The problems you cause
The problems you cause
The problems you cause

What do u want 
What do u want tell me what do u want 
What do u want

(Jæce)
Cracks form in the concrete
As the roots grow strong see the ground getting weak
You drink a glass of water dry your eyes take a deep breath
You're finding your feet
It's been a long time coming
You can touch it
But you can't quite see
You got that watering can yeah watering can 
And you're feeding the seeds
A scream it bleeds it writhes it seethes but you can coax it to sleep
And if the seed feels safe enough it peaks out to unfurl its leaves
BL80M
Photosynthetic breathing
Breach the concrete
Flowering

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BL80M - Jæce & Goyaconnect

Headbanging In The Club out now (digital + vinyl) on Orange Milk Records.
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