Cringe Wold by indek
Released by Rubber City Noise
Available at:
https://rubbercitynoise.bandcamp.com/album/cringe-wold
“Cringe Wold” is a collection of indek tunes edited from recordings captured during live performances between 2015 and 2017. The original project files were lost, leaving these recently unearthed recordings as the only remaining artifacts. “Cringe” is raw and primal, all elemental essence and primordial beats in contrast to the meticulously refined and fractured breakcore mutations of this year’s acclaimed “Yope” EP (indek.bandcamp.com/album/yope).
Throughout “Cringe,” abstract rhythms and patterns pulse in psychedelic swirls, crude oil in parking lot puddles rippling from a Jurassic rave somewhere outside of spacetime. Vocal samples filter and stretch through layers of cellular synthetics, broken drum hits beat staccato while ominous pads lurk in the shadows hinting at unheard revelations. “Cringe” prefaces the brokecore braindance of “Yope” with a full-length selection of genre-transcending electronic “dance” musics. The imagery and titles evoke an uncanny valley, where technology and biology fuse and fizz as phonons fracture and mend in unfolding fractals across 56 minutes of sound.
Presented as a limited edition of 79 cassette tapes — metallic silver ink on pink shells with 4-panel fold-out j-cards.
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"Electronic alchemist indek embraces the hedonistic impulses of breakcore and braindance in his work, filling each second with jolts of manic energy fueled by beats and samples that stomp and glitch and disintegrate under their combined weight. But even as his sounds short circuit and create sparks in cramped spaces, he never loses sight of how these often-disparate sounds can be fused together to create a core of nervous electricity and emotional catharses. He works in abstract musical realization, in the propagation of feral patterns and cacophonous anomalies, searching for commonality in uncommon things. This drives him to rearrange and deconstruct sounds without bowing to referential influence or (sub)genre limitations.
His latest collection of digital wizardry finds him sifting through the past, culling bits and pieces from live recordings taken between 2015 and 2017. Cringe Wold is filled with biomechanical essences and primordial digitalization mutating into a series of psychedelic daymares and hyperactive atonalities. It sounds as though he’s taking a chainsaw to some virtual forest, with splinters of circuit boards and digital roots flying in all directions. From the opening skitter and release of “Cunee Frofh” to the sputtering ambience of closer “Raw Woold”, the album doesn’t stay rooted in one place for very long — opting instead to fly all over the electronic spectrum, blasting micro-grooves and tinnitus-inducing static into countless atmospheric layers." - Joshua Packard / beatsperminute.com
Credits
Music and artwork by indek (indek.xyz)
Design & layout by eucarya (eucarya.net)
Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZaXgRyaJy1Ygj2PoRMTIWGPrgs3nEeKf
