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Shapednoise, 'Illumination': Techno Music at the Ripped Edge of a Black Hole

The Italian producer's new video is reality overdriven to pure doom.
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"Illumination"? It's hard to imagine a void dark enough such that this track, a preview from Shapednoise's forthcoming EP, provides anything like light. Rather, it feels like a series of grenades tossed just inside the event horizon of a black hole. The video itself achieves something rare, feeling like a musical companion in the sense that it's like watching a landscape being strafed by the vibrations of the song itself, or reality being modulated by its distorted bass snarls. In a FACT post, the video's director, Amanda Siegel, describes it as “an overblown construct of analog and digital distortion,” which still doesn't quite do it justice: an anxiety-inducing miasma of perfectly fucked imagery and sound.

Check out Shapednoise's tribute to Justin K Broadrick over at Noisey.