Breaking all rhythms into bite size morsels, machines, instruments, and vocal echoes are expertly chopped up.
Blending subliminal found-sounds and voices
Nebulo is a French electronic musician based in Dordogne. He’s released on labels such as Hymen, Orange Milk, Conditional, Le Cabanon, Seagrabe, Wabi-Sabi Tapes, La République Des Granges, Stomoxine, and 3OP. The credentials go on and on, and it’s no wonder that his latest with the ever on-point 3OP (Three Operators) continues in his abstract electronic tradition. Breaking all rhythms into bite size morsels, machines, instruments, and vocal echoes are expertly chopped up on MMXXII (“40 ° celsius.”)
Experimental to the core, nebulo dives headfirst into distracted noise and drone fissures (“escaliers”) to more microscopic clicks and (vocal) cuts (“XXI”) while ambient peripherals and sliced samples run rampant (“divaa.”) The brittle and shifting sounds of “zt” continue to process sliced vocal echoes within its melodious construct, and we’re beginning to see the connections between each piece. As a result, nebulo offers eroded electronics, blending subliminal found-sounds and voices with mechanical fragments in a tangled sonic mess that is both sweet and sour.
Highly recommended for fans of Kracfive Records from the early 00s (reference Colongib, Pacman, and Original Instrument (aka Kettel, Colongib collab)—who also took human voices and fractured electronics to its outer edges.)
Written and produced by Thomas Pujols
Mastered by Nil Hartman
Artwork by Thomas Pujols
MMXXII is available on 3OP. [Bandcamp]
