When Elegance Becomes Violence

by Machine Woman

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1.	Heavy Cream 04:25	buy track
2.	Untitled Glitch House Beat 05:39	buy track
3.	Voices 03:43	buy track
4.	I Received Your Email Today 07:54	buy track
5.	Yes Mate 07:32	buy track

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Delsin is pleased to welcome the unique sound experimentalist Machine Woman, presenting a captivating five-track journey out to the glitchy fringes of techno. MW, with her force of personality, continues to push the boundaries of her practice, offering bold and innovative approaches. She skillfully interlaces her voice through disorienting processes, embodying the essence of her self-styled mechanical organism.

In her hands, drums with a tangible in-the-room feel become precision-engineered components and needlepoint synthesis writhes with uncanny organic logic. The EP delves into themes exploring human behavior both online and offline, the delicate palette of breakbeat techno, and the transformative journey of aging. As the EP’s title implies, transformations can be dramatic and entrenched elegant qualities in oneself can become violent overnight, whether in terms of your look, your mindset or your ability to connect with others.

Through this ambiguous intersection of Woman and Machine comes a playful danceable impulse and a tracky focus which will give DJs plenty to work with even as they edge the errant frequencies and twitchy rhythms into the mix. While it’s far from straight-laced and functional, this Machine jacks as hard as it jolts, and yet there’s a sensual quality to MW’s processed voice peeking through the crunchy melee of ‘I Received Your Email Today’ which softens the attack.

It calls back to some of her earliest work, occupying a strangely inviting late-night hinterland where it’s hard to tell the replicants from the humans.

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released September 29, 2023

written & produced by Machine Woman
mastered by Vril
artwork by Erris Huigens

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