Barcelona-based record label Adepta unveil ‘Sleek Vibra’, a dystopian missive from Rome-based producer Alessandro Gramaccioni, operating under the cryptonym AFM.
Kicking off their freshly-minted series Altari, a conceptual line dedicated to mapping the unlit corridors of deconstructed electronics, Adepta hand over the controls to a producer whose fingerprints already stain the margins of labels including Amen Raves and Lapsus Records.
With ‘Sleek Vibra‘, AFM delivers four stealthy dispatches, welding bass-laden ritualism to the erratic poetics of IDM and broken machinery funk. Our pick, ‘Kamui Effect’, opens with a scrambled polyphony of laser-guided distress signals and shortwave interference, as if intercepted from a rogue satellite in psychic orbit.
What follows is a hyperventilated stutter of metallic percussions and spasmodic low-end sequences, sound architecture for dancefloors warped by fever dreams. A harp flickers in and out like a ghost in the circuitry, while distant male voices echo through steel ducts. Nervous and high-functioning, it feels like an artefact from a club night that never ended, or perhaps never began. Grainy, cerebral, and gloriously unstable, this one’s tailor-made for heads seeking sanctuary at the edges.
‘Sleek Vibra‘ is scheduled for release 8th May via Adepta. Order a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Sleek Vibra
2. Kamui Effect
3. 2 Words 3 Months
4. Kill Dreams
5. Mani Giunte
6. Hepta Message