🐣 EPROM — KOUMMYA

At the speed of a dirge or a march of the dead across a netherworld of convenience store carparks, this track clonks along with menace and dread, sumptuous percussion marking time, unfathomable threats looming at the sidelines and cheering the procession on ghoulishly, the sheen of villainous majesty and baroque solemnity aloof and alive in the wide organ chords that soar down like eagles with talons poised and ready to snatch away and shred—in this sense quite Bowser-esque, sounding very much like the Castle Theme from New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The dusty tones of the organ and their funereal yet triumphal atmosphere works in partnership with the constant brutal buzz that EPROM lays down as a foundation in this one, a gothic tale with arabesque twists, a 19th century wandflick of macabre mixed with merciless modern bass distortion.

'Koummya' refers to a curved dagger traditional to the Atlas region of southern Morocco—often ornately decorated, always with a peacock tail-shaped end to the hilt, these were as much a part of traditional dress as they were intended to incapacitate and kill. Similarly, EPROM's track is as decorative – the breathy flourishes at the beginning of the track, phantomatic and nightmarish, the glittering intoxicated waves of golden sound like blankets of cut gemstones, the "yeah" sample – as it is harrowing: that sludgy bass, the needling crescendos, the inescapable unrelenting swirl of its crushed abrasive sounds. A perfect soundscape, dreadful and awesome, terrible to behold, daunting and gratifying, breathtaking noise with a purpose, destroyer and yet destroyed: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

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• 🔔 The marvellous 'Koummya' is taken from EPROM's Pineapple EP, which is out now and which can be downloaded and streamed variously. The five-track EP includes an official remix of the title track 'Pineapple' by G JONES.
• 🔔 Australian artist Jonathan Zawada created the exquisiteglistening 3D artwork for the EP, combining its namesake – a pineapple ring – with a gem-like cherry complete with tongue-tied stem, a scraggle of barbed wire and an extra-long and rather barbarous-looking dagger. Intangible, abstract and decorative at the same time as exuding an imminent sense of simultaneous unpredictable danger and fun, the artwork, like a twisted crest, is a perfect fit for the big, experimental, spike-laden sound of EPROM. Zawada has also made artwork for the likes of Flume, Baauer and Mark Pritchard.
• 🔔 The San Fran-originated Portland-based musicmaker is named after EPROM, erasable programmable read-only memory, "a type of memory chip that retains its data when its power supply is switched off." (Wikipedia).

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TERUGKLAP – SILICONVERSION

Imagine an Earth dangling on the precipice of the 30th Century. Just imagine that for a second. Ok? Done? Well this is the concept behind ultracool Canadian label Kind Deluxe's ongoing thang, The 2999 Project. "What do you envision for our future? Specifically, in the year 2999?" is the question they ask; it is answered by electronic musicians, who provide a track with an accompanying piece of text (most recently, and this time around, composed by Amit Dutta) as a description of their vision. Alongside this, illustrators create cover art for each track inspired by the music – the resulting combinations are different every time and the output is nothing short of TOP QUALITY. & It's a great way to find new artists to listen to :)

This time around, Netherlands producer Terugklap (real name Sander Haakman) has created a nightmarish vision in 'Siliconversion'. It represents a post-human earth, described thusly Amit Dutta: "Waves of carbonic acid lap up against the glittering green and silver beaches formed by the the dissolution of organic marine life and the discarded circuitry detritus of a millennium of electronics evolution. Beaches rise up through to agate rock steppes formed by layers upon layers of concentric banded geometry… Further inland the landscape gives way to geysers of molten silicon bubbling at 1400 degrees and thrown into the air where it immediately solidifies into rock… dirty yellow volcanic snow-ash drifts down in thick sheets and is blown and hardened into tortured sculptures by the lowered jet stream as a planet slowly converts from Carbon based to Silicon based life."

Hence the title 'Siliconversion'.

This is one darkly heavy-duty track if ever there was one. Nominally "experimental", beginning with alien snorts and sniffs accompanied by noxious breezes like those on an unrecognisable Earth, the track burns with an angry molten fluid intensity, bristling and crackling all the way, as if replicating the now acidic waves of the ocean. And from the tortured planet's heartbeat we have this brutally booming rich infra-bass thud – a disorienting plosive sound that, along with the high-pitched tinnitusesque squeak that fades in and out, gives a feeling of deafness, sense deprivation, fear and complete unknowingness. It is the semblance of a beat, which is a massive understatement, later joined by a snare that seems lost in the midst of these vicious sounds.

• It's yet another showcase in King Deluxe's illustrious line of offerings, all of which YOU CAN SEE HERE and the earliest of which you can download from their respective places.

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