Emotive & gloomy synth-scapes that sound like a score to a movie that never was nor will be. Played and recorded on an Ipad. Analogue mastering by Guy Tavares. Part 1/2.
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Finally it’s here, the new Ernst Leben! Some people will be disappointed that it’s only a single, but even great heroes started small. We are now presenting the start of a serious era in self-publishing: “Don’t be serious”.
After relocating from New York to France, Charles Rowell began stuffing his suitcase with various synths and samplers while taking cheap bus rides to bordering countries. While living out of a hotel in north east Paris, he played his demos for Third Coming Records who quickly released the Bad Trip EP in 2020. Concerts became more frequent after the pandemic, with the release of Spellwound and a few have become infamous with guitars smashed to pieces, broken glasses, unruly audience front flipping onto the stage. With Paris providing the background and a scene of friends such as avant-garde drag artist Tuna Mess and industrial techno veteran Poison Point who pushed his creativity even further, Crush Of Souls constant spirit is that it remains unpredictable and thrives on collaboration.
The collaborative bi-coastal project between Andi (NYC) and Machino (LA) is dark, spiraling music that conflates the tension of running EBM basslines with the monstrosity of electro-saturated, industrialized beats. In 2021, Andi and Machino began sending music back and forth to each other virtually—thousands of miles apart—as they built upon their passion for creating off-the-cuff, dangerously degenerate dance tracks. Parafernales, their first release out this summer on Mannequin, is a conceptual EP that deals with power struggles: love and lust, strength and destruction, dominating and domination. Andi’s vocals are spoken, whispered, and yelled simultaneously, as if to mirror the mania of having control and losing it at the same time. The EP title, Parafernales, is a nod to Machino’s first language of Spanish and stems from the idea of miscellany: it is parafernalia for drugs, or, simply, accessories for unsavory activities. With inspirations from turn-of-the-90s erotic thrillers to the Chilean post-punk band, Los Prisioneros, the duo collide in a manner that is unadulterated and, at times, completely unhinged. Machino is an electronic performer and music producer from Mexico based in Los Angeles who started out making moody ambient, techno and has now pivoted towards industrial music. He has released several EPs on different labels such as Tresor and X-IMG. Andi is a DJ, producer and music journalist based in NYC. She runs the nine year strong label/party SYNTHICIDE.
Pink Opake is pleased to announce the release of their new album “Matéria”. Drawing influences from post punk, coldwave, and minimal synth, the record features 8 tracks that embody the band’s distinctive sound. Formed by Tatiana Meyer on vocals and synths, and Paulo Beto on programming, synths, and guitar, the band brings a unique energy to their compositions. “Matéria” is an album inspired by the love between the members, who are a couple, as well as the wave and dark electronic music with guitars from the 1980s. |
