As Hexalyne, his latest outfit, the prolific Romanian shakes off the past for a more polished glitch-industrial sheen for none other than our favorite record label, Kaer’Uiks.
Flexible, disjointed, and creative sonic manipulation
Sorin Paun has come out of his shell, quite literally—originally producing abstract electronics via his Randomform alias, then morphing into crumpled electro mutations as Datacrashrobot, robotic rhythms as Wirewound, and a few other shenanigans as Separation Device, Polyconaire, and Sunmoon. As Hexalyne, his latest outfit, the prolific Romanian shakes off the past for a more polished glitch-industrial sheen for none other than our favorite record label, Kaer’Uiks.
Tcaresset exhibits flexible, disjointed, and creative sonic manipulation—its minuscule sound bites tethered to Autechrean soil (ref. “Scatter ES”), each piece manages to eclipse the next. On tracks like “Rate Sects,” blips and bleeps run rampant as an underlying, smoldering rhythm slithers in the background—it’s enough to bring chills. And it goes without question that Paun is able to pull off an infinitesimal amount of detail along the way. These time-stretched sound design grooves and glitch manifests bend and twist the fabric of space. “Cast Reset” is one such example where machine-like noises build up and eventually break down.
As a collection of leftfield and futuristic audio slices, Tcaresset pushes the artist further into realms we’ve yet to hear. As “Arc Tesset” delivers dense microscopic dust particles to the outer recesses of our galaxy, there’s just enough melodic and emotive fuel to lift the whole album. A crowning achievement that continues to expand on exploratory and extraterrestrial glitches, and an exciting new moniker to keep us anticipating more.
Tcaresset is available on Kaer’Uiks. [Bandcamp]
