Since his 2011 debut LP “Bible Eyes”, Psutka has been busy with various studio production projects as well as recording and touring with his side-project Hiawatha.

His return as Egyptrixx takes the form of a multi-media collaboration with Berlin-based visual artist A.N.F. (Andreas Fischer).

Together the pair focused on a process – a set of ‘meaning-through-reduction’ principles applied to both sound and video – with atmosphere, repetition and texture given priority over traditional ideas of narrative and song structure.

Fisher’s visuals began to take shape, depicting molten off-planet environments, strange underground realms and volcanic caves lined with arrays of fluorescent light tubes, and Psutka responded by soundtracking these new digital environments.

The resulting nine tracks and their accompanying series of videos and images became “A/B til Infinity”, a mesmeric environment rendered in the crystalline HD that has marked out Egyptrixx’ work since his earliest productions.

The music is by turns meditative, violent and evocative; glassy and earth-shattering. Here sound-design and song-writing are one and the same – Psutka stretches a DX7 to its limits, its shuddering hits deployed throughout. 808 and Simmons drum machines pound extreme-metal blastbeats, then disappear into gaseous SFX, a rockpool in a virtual cavern. Digital choirs intone and beautiful synths envelop everything. Necessary forays into club territory on lead 12″ cut “Water” and the tribal locomotive “Alta Civilization” are seamless, their akinness to Techno or EBM feels incidental to this record’s greater experience, though DJs may definitely disagree.

Looking back, “Bible Eyes” now seems like a wide open expanse, while “A/B till Infinity” lets its listener hover with it in the eerie synthesised twilight depicted on its cover.

Released November 26th 2013 via Last Gang Records in Canada and Night Slugs everywhere else.

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01 – Eliane Radigue – Kyema [Experimental Intermedia Foundation]

02 – Wolf Eyes – Untitled III [Hanson]

03 – Hysterics – Code Switch (Club Mix) [NSCC]

04 – Egyptrixx – Water [Night Slugs]

05 – Planetary Assault System – Flat Tire [Mote Evolver]

06 – Jeremy Greenspan + Borys – Saint Hood [Jialong]

07 – Bleak – Ekko [Deeply Rooted House]

08 – Boner M – Poke [Pennyroyal]

09 – Tommy Four Seven – Monix [Strobscopic Artifacts]

10 – Headless Horsemen – Graveyard (Perc Remix) [HH]

11 – Barker + Baumecker – Murder of Crows Part 2 [Ostgut Ton]

12 – Rest.wav

13 – Moin – Elsie [Blackest Ever Black]

14 – Egyptrixx – Adult [Night Slugs]

The hi-definition crystalline world of his previous album “Bible Eyes” has sunken, submerged. “Water” takes place in some vast molten expanse, a subterranean electrical storm expressed as acid-tech.

This 12″ features the reduced dub, stripped of melody to for full hypnotic effect. The full version can be heard on the forthcoming album, titled “A/B til Infinity”.

On the flip: Helix keeps bootlegging our records. He cuts up the masters and edits them up like Fruity Loops lego, applying the same post-Timbaland stutter-logic that was amplified so dramatically in 03-06 grime.

Here he puts his hand to Egyptrixx’ blastbeats-heavy “Adult”, also taken from the forthcoming “A/B til Infinity” LP. The results are extremely punishing but compelling listening.

“A/B til Infinity” is out in November 2013 on Night Slugs