Colliding Contours, by Driftmachine

Colliding Contours

by Driftmachine

supported by

Tolujin Deep, ever-shifting, mesmerising electronic dub. This is the music I wanted to hear when I first explored Monolake 15 years ago. I'll be playing this for a long time to come. Favorite track: Lost Travelers.

BLAKDOT25 Driftmachine without any doubt is making a solid statement by creating unique modular synthesis. Umor Rex Records delivers another gem for our listening pleasure. Favorite track: Dogov Godov.

The Inexpressible Sound Archive thumbnail

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$8 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

94

releases

Get all 94 Umor Rex releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Moments at the Re-engage, Pruebas de Existencia, The Dualistic Principle, Zero Mambo, BFHC, Harmonies from Betelgeuse, Visions, Four Steps, and 86 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$349.40 USD or more (50% OFF)

	1.	Radiations 05:28
	2.	Sans Soleil 05:09
	3.	Observant Sirens 05:49
	4.	Gaukelwerk 05:14
	5.	Dogov Godov 07:39
	6.	Lost Travelers 07:01
	7.	Ambler 06:34
	8.	Nunc Stans 02:36

about

--------------------------------------------

Buy Vinyl LP: umor-rex.org
LP LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES.

LTD of 500 copies packaged in an uncoated stock jacket with double sided insert, black inner sleeve, and free DL code.

--------------------------------------------

Berlin-based duo Driftmachine returns with another striking piece of music. “Colliding Contours” is a shape-shifting album made from kosmische, dub, Industrial and Avant-garde elements. It’s all held together by tense grooves and a post-club, eerie electronic atmosphere.

The latest work of Driftmachine offers a complex dialogue between genres and music styles, transcending the familiar by generating a peculiar mood through its unique take on modular synthesis and its obsessive bass-structures and detailed rhythmic patterns. Within the haunted electronic spaces of “Colliding Contours” one can find a geometry made of dub, jazz and industrial techno lines, intersecting at ominous intervals; an unsettling companion for a late night trip or a tangled state of mind.

The album opens with “Radiations”, a crawling piece with a slow rebound of electronic shocks fractioning into echoes and reverberations which could be heard as an initial dialogue between operator and machine (an idea Driftmachine formerly explored in their “Eis Heauton” EP). “Sans Soleil”, the second cut, introduces the perpetual motion sound sculptures that will be prevalent throughout the rest of the album. Terminal velocity is achieved as they hit the mark inside “Observant Sirens”, where the hard shapes drawn between the ‘riddim’ and the bass reveal the signature style of Driftmachine (formulated in their debut LP “Nocturnes”). Going up and down, with longer suites of meticulous, systematic assembly and darker dub patterns, we reach “Gaukelwerk” diving deep into cosmic space, followed by “Dogov Godov“ and its heavy post – industrial steps which are contrasted by ethereal layers of analog oscillation. With “Colliding Contours” Driftmachine, the duo comprised of Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Florian Zimmer (Saroos), have built an exhilarating new vehicle to deliver their vision. Go deep into the elegant menace of their sound through the unpredictability of modular synthesis.

credits

released May 6, 2016

All songs produced by Andreas Gerth & Florian Zimmer, Berlin 2015
Josef Linschinger: keyboard on Radiatons
Mastered by John Tejada
Artwork by Daniel Castrejon

license

about

Umor Rex Mexico City, Mexico

VINYL / CD / CS

umor-rex.com

contact / help

Contact Umor Rex

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Colliding Contours, you may also like:

Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 28 fans who also own “Colliding Contours”

I first listened through this a couple years ago, and I don't know why I hadn't bought it until now. Regardless, I think everyone should listen through this in its entirety at least once, the best way I can describe it is beautifully haunting. I'm sure my favorite track will keep changing forever, too. sethgibbs
go to album
FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
by Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

supported by 22 fans who also own “Colliding Contours”

loving it to illustrate a rooftop dance Jessie Woletz
go to album
新しい日の誕生
by 2814

supported by 18 fans who also own “Colliding Contours”

Timeless classic, I've discovered this album in 2019 and I still think it's one of the best albums ever. Great for long train rides and smoking weed at 3am akizona
go to album
Six Sines
by cøelho

Making self-described “immersive music,” Brazil’s cøelho constructs hypnotic songs from rippling electronic sounds. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 13, 2021
go to album
Perennial
by Isolating

Haunting EBM from Stephen Hindman of The Golden Filter that moves from atmospheric minimalism to throbbing dance numbers. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 13, 2020
go to album
COSMIC SESSIONS
by autotectonic

Ontario act Autotectonic offers up 10 stunning experimental tracks, fusing drone, power electronics & noise into a gripping whole. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2020
go to album
Stadium
by Eli Keszler

supported by 18 fans who also own “Colliding Contours”

Awesome mood, carefully balanced, singular in many points. Loved it at first listening. raphaelbastide
go to album