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alexandra atnif - rhythmic brutalism vol 1 - em records - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Pillars Of Insanity
2. Ephemeral Moments Of Mental Clarity
3. Adore & Detest
4. Perspective Transparencies
5. Acute Anxiety Neurosis
6. I Said Destroy
7. Abandon Your Cities
8. Anthems Of The Deaf & Blind
9. Live In Shame
10. Perpetual Demystification

“Rhythmic Brutalism” is the title of this release, vinyl wise, available as a two two separate LPs, this being the first.

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The title is also a very apt description of the music itself. Romanian-born Alexandra Atnif was fascinated by the harsh, grey concrete beauty and minimally repetitive force of the brutalist post-war architecture of her homeland, and this fascination has given rise to the music here

Vol. 1 is an EM Records edition, compiled from an earlier self-released double CD featuring recordings from 2014-15. Vol. 2 consists of previously unreleased recordings from 2015 to 2017. Using elemental, inexpensive technology, Atnif’ s music is heavy and harsh, stripped down to distressed skeletal frameworks, rhythmic noise, rusting metal and weathered concrete, a distorted DIY realization of her beautifully brutal vision.

With a background in European modernist/avant-garde music, Atnif has been influenced by early rhythmic industrial music such as Throbbing Gristle, Esplendor Geometrico and Muslimgauze, as well as later practitioners of rhythm and noise including Pan Sonic, Autechre, Winterkälte, Prurient and Scorn. Across the relatively brief span of years contained within these two volumes, we hear the rhythmic structures begin to fracture and fray, and the outlines darken and become more obscure, with Antif’s sensibility evident throughout.