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out now: Sirio Gry J – Phrentic Affliction [Monolith Records]

Artist:
Sirio Gry J

Title:
Phrentic Affliction

Label:
Monolith Records

Cat#:
MDS009

Release Date:
07th September 2023

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Disgregatio Temporis

02.
Pathogenesis

03.
Exhausting Healing

04.
Exile

05.
Disgregatio Temporis
(Uncto Remix)

06.
Exhausting Healing
(Ken Karter Remix)

Press Info:
Obscure bio-machinery conspiring against humanity, grinding relentlessly to collide with the rules and roles that reduce existence to a sterile binarism are animating ‘Phrentic Affliction’, an EP about industrial electronics that is structured consistently upon dark visions of claustrophobic sceneries that belong to a cacotopian reality. Steelworks caustic distortions shape the four original cuts orchestrating time disintegration and space collapse one hit after the other, as an unstoppable disease aiming to erase reality and frame new ways, enduring exhaustion to find exile from the pale constrictions of social assets.

This work moves on as a sequel to the ‘Synnecrosis’ album, approaching a fairly similar timber study from a slightly different perspective in order to add more to the core. Two meaningful artists are called to join the release as well, willing to expand even more this adventurous sonic exploration with their unique sounds matured over many passionate years of deep sonic research: Ken Karter, also mastering engineer and scientist behind the sound of Monolith Records, and Uncto, side project of Dominik Müller (in collaboration with Rafal Fürst).

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out now: Dominik Müller – Insidious Innocence [Monolith Records]

Artist:
Dominik Müller

Title:
Insidious Innocence

Label:
Monolith Records

Cat#:
MRDG030

Release Date:
30th May 2023

Format:
CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
So Easy To Suffer

02.
New Path

03.
Empty Dolls Behind The Booth

04.
So Easy To Suffer
(Sirio Gry J Remix)

Press Info:
Dominik Müller lands on Monolith Records with ‘Insidious Innocence’, a Monolithic 3 tracks EP (plus Sirio Gry J Remix) as solid as the rock on the artwork which is a rightfully emblematic stone coal extracted from 1 Km depth in a mine of his homeland, Upper Silesia, charged with the higher purpose of matching the unique style to this high quality work. Herr Müller, long standing dj/producer, live performer and sound engineer in the dark/industrial techno scene is relentlessly delivering top quality cuts since early 2000s, uncompromised through various active to date monikers, such as Beauten O. S., and Uncto (together with Rafal Fürst) among others, and managing Furanum Records, an important HQ label project, reference for the genre since more than 15 years.

With this challenging work, the creator is exploring a more introspective approach aiming to find new shapes, seeking revenge towards a scene that consumes everything and betrays true passion by crafting harsher sounds serving a more purely industrial perspective. Just like mankind’s choices led to a society of greed and suffering for the most, the music scene follows the same annihilating motion: behind the shiny masks of social media, lies and propaganda proliferate endlessly as the industry demands and pushes towards the rush of consumption, standing against any possibly truly artistic output, considering creativity dangerous for the artificially established Status Quo, radically inconsistent, but able to saturate the channels. Unstoppable marketing machines are engineering media to replace artists with almost-artificial or nevertheless fictional characters behind the booths, who carry neither a message nor mission, conveniently lacking commitment to themselves, and ending up being the perfect actors to comply with the market demands without risking to tamper with the hegemonies. Dominik’s commitment instead craves a New Path towards a new light, the urge to explore new territories and evolve his sound tradition leads to this glorious work which is a bridge towards a future where self-development and expression are still the main values of a truly passionate musician.

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“New Path”

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out now: Scam. – Brutalism EP [Monolith Records]

Artist:
Scam.

Title:
Brutalism EP

Label:
Monolith Records

Cat#:
MRDG026

Release Date:
15th September 2020

Format:
CD & digital

Tracklist:
01.
Brutalism

02.
Counterparts

03.
Gaze Detection

04.
The Gray Empire

05.
Brutalism
(Svart1 Interpretation)

Press Info:
‘Brutalism wants to be an anthem to solidity, firmness and imperturbability, the sonic- equivalent of the visions inspired from the surrealistic ambiences of the forgotten mining area of San Leone, in Sardinia. The industrial architecture delivers sound elements echoing and morphing within a grim scenario rolling on a perpetual tension. Buried underneath the cyclical obsessive development of the Ep, vibrations and frequencies tell about life, there where life is actually extinguished. The place becomes a non-place, a neutral grey space of concrete where the music flows, marking the relentless time elapsing inside an isolated structure in which loneliness reveals hidden glances. The journey focuses on the vision of a cold solidity well wounded by the years, and offers an immersive experience able to locate those lost and forgotten hunting presences. It’s a story trapped within the stained glasses of a gigantic sonic cathedral, and the script reveals a deep stylistic research, based on a remarkable depth of thinking. ‘Scam.’ crafts his sounds like an artisan and establishes an addictive concrete pragmatism which develops mechanically, yet accounting on the emotional charge able to relocate the listener inside an unidentifiable dimension where the architecture, the machines and the human are conceived as a ritualistic ‘unicum’, moving through mesmerising modulations. The Brutalism EP is a different soundtrack for the industrial decay, and a monument to superior intents.’

The journey is divided in 5 chapters. ‘Brutalism’, the intro, articulates modulations able to draw the lines of an odd scenario in which cavernous entities echoing from the distance, are calling to enter their forgotten domain. Right after having entered such grim dimension, ‘Counterparts’ hits hard and direct strongly contrasting with the intro. It’s a proper abrasive real contact with the actual materials of those haunting chambers, sounds that got field-recorded and arranged to shape up the structure of an underworld that is screaming and surviving although its end is already certain and consumed. ‘Gaze Detection’ steps back to find consistence with rounder frequencies, haunting soundscapes and gigantic drums roll over the cyclic development of the dehumanised piece, adding an horrific touch to the journey. ‘The Grey Empire’ finally celebrates the concrete matter that embraces and shapes the whole scenario. A conclusion into perpetual cycles that traps the focus into a mechanical vision that takes shape into technoid tool for the dancefloor able to square things off. An alternative end of the ep is masterfully crafted by Svart1 with an interpretation of the intro ‘Brutalism’ that serves as its diametrically opposed counterpart by closing the ep, returning to the cold actual dimension of the unanimated ambiences, that now are filled with sharper elements, a storm able to subtly disturb a necessary escape, by adding extra struggle.

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“Counterparts”

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out now: Sirio Gry J – Posthuman Condition [Monolith Records]

Artist:
Sirio Gry J

Title:
Posthuman Condition

Label:
Monolith Records

Cat#:
MR001

Release Date:
07th May 2018

Format:
12″

Tracklist:
A1.
The Electronic Welfare

A2.
Antibionic Resistance

B1.
Oversynthetik

B2.
Oversynthetik
(Somatic Responses Caustic Mix)

Press Info:
‘It is now clear that humans are no longer the most important things in the universe, that their knowledge, creativity and intelligence are ultimately limited.’

The Posthuman realises that the ultimate questions about existence and being do not require answers and accepts that humans have a finite capacity to understand and control nature. Even just to know the ultimate nature of the universe would require knowing everything about the universe, everything that has happened and everything that will happen. If one thing were not known it would imply that all knowledge of the universe is partial, potentially incomplete and, therefore, not ultimate.

Humans privilege to order over disorder on the assumption that the essential laws of nature are gradually being discovered. This is a fundamental error; nature is neither essentially ordered or disordered. What we perceive as regular, patterned information we classify as order; what we perceive as irregular, unpatterned information we classify as disorder. The appearance of order and disorder implies more about the way in which we process information than the intrinsic presence of order or disorder in nature.

The humanist era was characterized by certainty about the operation of the universe and the place of humans within it. The Posthuman era is characterized by uncertainty about the operation of the universe and about what it is to be human.

What is a human? Is there such a thing?

No finite division can be drawn between the environment, the body and the brain. The human is identifiable, but not definable.
Consciousness, (the interaction body-brain) and the environment (reality) cannot be separated; they are continuous that defines the being.

All technological progress of human society is geared towards the transformation of the human species as we currently know it; the posthumans regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world. In such ‘synthetik’ reality power no longer needs to impose physical regulations, as it is able to manipulate and shape up the minds directly, becoming part of it.

There won’t be any resistance from the individual, as he will have embodied the needs of the system in his own being, and their ambition will serve the economy.

Currently the output of machines is predictable; the Posthuman era fully starts when the output of machines becomes unpredictable, so that complex machines, apparatus whose workings we do not fully understand or control, become an emerging form of life.

In the Posthuman era, the future never arrives.

– from ´The Posthuman Manifesto´, Robert Pepperel, 1995

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