This track got released as part of Infinite Machine's 10 Years Compilation
I started it back in 2015 while I was in Nida, Lithuania for the Baltic Trail musicians' gathering. There i tried to capture the locale, especially the Curonian split, and the emotions it evoked through field recordings which are used throughout this piece.
W3C returns to Infinite Machine following-up his highly acclaimed "State Of Absolute Alienation" EP released in 2017.
"Event Horizon" symbolically portrays a trip into a very distant and completely alien region of space in which many of our preconceptions are turned on their head. Especially those of what the UK sound is and what you can potentially do with it.
Thoroughly emphasized is the interaction and symbiosis of the old and the new, the known and the unknown. As the symbolic space vessel enters the deep unknown of our universe, the well known characteristics and traits of the UK sound get mangled and mutated into something wholly different.
When listening and passing through the "Event Horizon" you enter into a realm of epic, unimagined vistas of sound, of deep, all-consuming waves of bass and of a deeply strange and primordial quality.
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Artwork by: Alessandro de Angelis
Mastered by Cyrcular Mastering
This Gqom inspired track was released on Infinite Machine as part of WOLF's & 111X's "Final Star" EP
Latvian producer W3C, taking his moniker from the acronym for the World Wide Web Consortium, affords oversight to the totality of the Internet comparable to his namesake standards organization. And where the latter concerns itself with education, outreach and software development, the former is a pastiche and collage savant – using online connectivity and access to wrangle all strains of electronic music and collide their respective particles into an unrecognizable, yet eerily inviting sonic edifices.
Debuting in style, earlier this year, with the vinyl-only “Atmospheric Entry” EP, via Pinch’s Tectonic-side-venture Cold Recordings, W3C now joins the Infinite Machine family with “State Of Absolute Alienation”, on 12” and digital.
Opener “Ascension (Intro)” does what it says on the tin – it stands as an apt overture to the proceedings herein, leaning on harsh, bass-heavy noise bursts before sprinkling in grime decorations and ascendant, reverb-drenched, hollow-synth contrapuntal melody that very much anchors the record into the now, referencing the likes of instrumental grime revivalists such as Dark0, Murlo or Slackk.
“Xenotrack” then shifts gears into what sounds like an inspired take on the psytrance of yesteryear, only slower, steadier… A degraded, alien morphology supporting a nonetheless “club” grammar - making the title, yet again, quite self-explanatory.
…Which rings true a third time for “Bot-o’-War”, a raucous industrial epic which evokes a combat deployment scene in a mecha-centric direct-to-video feature, wherein the subtle naval theming of the title is aurally transcribed into the suffocating, submerged sound design of the latter half.
On the flip, “Short Circuit” (the grimiest of the lot), an unintuitive blend of Mumdance doing his thing, a run-of-the-mill “Ice Rink” homage and a trap lead that could turn heads at a GHE20G0TH1K party, somehow works.
Finally, “Invasion”, replete with sci-fi-blockbuster-trailer aesthetics, sounds like if Two Steps from Hell remixed a mash-up of individually much subtler cuts from Pan Sonic and Gatekeeper, respectively. Absolute alienation indeed.
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Latvian based producer W3C makes his stone-Cold vinyl debut with this killer 4-track EP, showcasing the producers hard and uncompromising sonic: industrial techno meets rolling UK-style broken rhythms, around the 125-130bpm tempo range. Sounds from an unknown dimension percolate and fizz around masterfully crafted percussive layers, always guided by a dramatic, evolving narrative. If you like dark, progressive electronic music, then you need to own this release. W3C opens with 'Atmospheric Entry', setting the mood for the rest of the EP with building technoid tensions, before a warping baseline emerges and charges the broken beats with furious purpose. Hard and energising, this one works very well on the dancefloor. 'Bile' takes things into deep dark waters - more rolling and restrained than the opening track, but no less powerful for it. Delicate sounds simmer and bubble in and out, vying for attention as drums build and build before dropping back into alien textures and rolling beats. 'Prometheus' sets the context for an apocalyptic battle scene - like the sound of attacking warships and the ensuing aftermath. Tense strings hold the mood while drums crash hard, punctuating the drilling of hi-hats and swooping bass hits that drop like giant cannons blowing ships from the sky. 'Fire, Walk With Me' closes things off, aching with a subtle melancholy that's triggered over a soundscape mapped out by atmospheric tension and intricate percussive layers.
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This is a remix I did for Tomas Urquieta for his "Manuscript EP" on Infinite Machine
This one was released on Dirty Deal Audio for minciisha ieraksti's "3 000 000 Remixed" EP
It got played in DJ sets by both Björk and Aphex Twin at the time!
Ice Rink is proud to present "2015Q2EP", incredibly sculpted deep space transmissions from Latvian producer DJ W3C backed by remixes from Minciisha Ieraksti, Spurz [Infinite Machine / Tessier-Ashpool], and Krimslo [Raw Records]. "Digital Void" and "The Nostromo" are zero gravity grime cuts, hissing and contorting machine language inside a drifting space capsule. "Bug Y10K", a collaboration with E91 [Main Course] recasts W3C's sound set into a galvanized club tool. Remixes from Minciisha Ieraksti, Spurz, and Krimslo further explore the boundaries between the charted grime universe and the bleak unknown beyond. Advance support from Mumdance on Rinse.FM.
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