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SOUK 015LP
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An elusive and quiet figure amidst the Portuguese electronic scene, Timóteo Azevedo aka Random Gods releases his debut album on Discrepant's sub label Souk after his killer appearance in the long sold out Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol. 2 compilation back in 2019. With two previous EPs on Danse Noire and ZABRA, Random Gods' futurist visions project themselves through a scavenger-like body music assembled from the hopes and debris of these uncertain and dread-inducing times. Rituals conjured from metal shards, blunted kickdrums, submerged basslines, reverberating textures, cut up vocals and lazer guided melodies. The orchestral runs of opener "Abertura" as a glimmer of nervous light into the deep end bass weight meditations on syncopated kicks and grimey synth stabs of "Somatiga." Slow burner "Pneuma" conjures neon synth lines into its half-step flow, while "Acervo" complicates the rhythm further with its profusion of crumbling kickdrums, tossed off claps and tonal percussion. "Prumoo" dwells deeper into post-industrial ardkore nuum with its merciless drum patterns and mol-ten basslines and "Alvoro" feels like footwork taken into those same wastelands, with a nervous percussive backbone from some ancient future -- take that as you will.
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DN 007EP
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Danse Noire presents the first ever solo release by the promising Portuguese producer Random Gods with Genezon.avi EP. The record also sees the return of Italian New Waver, and label inaugurator, Vaghe Stelle, contributing an interpretation of "Milito". Random Gods is Lisbon-based producer Timóteo Azevedo. The propulsive force behind this project is an exercise of imagining a post-apocalyptic future without the internet, where information is being gathered, and regathered, through fragmented data. Random Gods doesn't play on eclecticism and exoticism - he summons dub, noise and industrial tropes to soundtrack the trance of a diluted, disconnected world.
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