An area where fractured soundscapes are shadowed by sizzling beats, shuffled melodies, and a form of extraterrestrial sound design—these tracks unfold braindance and tranquilized glitch.
Bending and deforming reality in slow motion
“Digital darkness,” as noted on Concrete Collage’s Bandcamp page, Nothing Is Ever by Sunnk (who also recently released Weaving Ritual with Edition Mille Plateaux) dips and dabbles with the other side of sonic mangling. An area where fractured soundscapes are shadowed by sizzling beats, shuffled melodies, and a form of extraterrestrial sound design—these tracks unfold braindance and tranquilized glitch. And yet within this outer sphere, Sunnk manages to unravel the tiniest ambient particles, tosses them several feet in the air, and reconstitutes them with a flare for brittle layers and abstract rhythms that take on a life of their own. As each piece ventures into far off spaces, they’re also seemingly interconnected like dotted midnight skies. Drenched low-end and acrobatic audio mulching at its best, old-school Lexaunculpt shapes merge with new(er) school IDM tactics, the likes of Valance Drakes and Atiq immediately come to mind. Chopping every sound, beat, and shimmering tone into bite size morsels, Sunnk deconstructs seven audible miniatures—sometimes erratic, sometimes soothing—while bending and deforming reality in slow motion. A digital darkness in all its grayscale tones, and one that is carefully explored.
Nothing Is Every is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
