SLEEPING MACHINE (MACHINEFABRIEK + SLEEPING DOG) / DISCODESAFINADO

The long-playing debut of Machinefabriek, brought out last year by the one-man project of Rutger Zuydervelt, was very well received, among other things it ended up on The Wire’s year-end listings. Rightly so: with a great sense of tension Machinefabriek layers and weaves together melodious textures, grainy noise and found sounds into atmospherical compositions, keeping a balance between the pop deconstructions by Fennesz and the melancholical soundscapes of William Basinski. Just like them he explores the twilight zone between figuration and abstraction, where time seems to have come to a halt and the echoes of the memory resound. At Argos Machinefabriek will team up with Sleeping Dog, the homeproject of Chantal Acda, who also plays with the Belgian Band Chacda. Expect fairytales, noise, drones and David Lynch ambience.

Machinefabriek home
Sleeping Dog home

The duo Joris Vermeiren and Senjan Jansen is responsible for the concert series Discodesafinado, which set the tone during the 1990s for the electronics trend currently sweeping the international club and art circuit. The same header also houses a label and a music project, rivalling their examples from the very start. With their work, scarcely distributed and performed, they snuggle up warmly to such ‘minimal-techno’ masters as Thomas Brinkmann or Vladislav Delay. With digital tools and analogous drum machines they explore a musical territory in which classic minimalism and microscopic sound patterns converge with elements from techno and house. The result is a pointillist pallet of micro sounds, both rhythmical and contemplative. Music for the head and legs.

Discodesafinado home