Entropy

Description

French machinist duo ATOEM goes from strength to strength with "Entropy" Between sound explorations, hypnotic guitars and a homemade modular synthesizer, Atoem delivers impeccable and organic techno that doesn't rely solely on speed, but on harmony and textures. Having assimilated new-wave, ambient, rock, techno, Pink Floyd and Brian Eno, the duo builds its tracks according to its own algorithm, a synthetic equation of sequences and musical patterns, and soaring refrains in which the duo's haunting voices intertwine. Like Atoem, the ancient Egyptian deity who shaped matter to whom they refer, these two techno-sculptors have meticulously molded their own musical universe on a principle of non-separability and total mastery of the random, their machines acting as extensions of their bodies. At the heart of a laboratory of guitars, analog synths and modulars, the human machine Atoem comes to life in the labyrinthine corridors of its organic and epileptic performances. For their first album "Entropy," ATOEM takes risks and looks beyond the artistic horizon that made their reputation, seeking out accidents, counterpoints, anything that can help them bring out the music they have in mind in all its richness. Entropy reminds us, at the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, that it is indeed two human beings, made of flesh and feelings, who turn the knobs of these machines.