Nicky Mao (aka Hiro Kone) and group A founder Tot Onyx land on Nicolas Jaar's Other People imprint with a gruesome set of burnished EBM/no-wave maneuvers - RIYL Suicide, Chris & Cosey, Kangding Ray or Factory Floor.
Enxin/Onyx have been working together for years - you might have spotted them on Atonal's 2021-released 'More Light Boxset', where the chaotic 'DIN DIAN' closed out the compilation. That track's revisited on 'In Rupture', refined to play out the album with rolling machine-gun kicks and spittleshot android screams. Tokyo-born, Berlin-based sound artist and performer Tot Onyx brings volume and projection to the album, augmenting Mao's iron-clad modular cycles and industrial-strength beats with eardrum rupturing noise and punky, impetuous vocals. On 'Flare and Coil', she bellows, spits and wails over Mao's jerky pulse sequences, vocalizing and scatting between phrases; her voice isn't just a weapon, it's an arsenal that rains fire on the noise, like Lydia Lunch gassing on a Pan Sonic loosie.
The duo dissolve their rhythms nearly completely on 'Needle Pierces the Threshold', opening up a creaking, post-apocalyptic soundscape for Tot Onyx's loose-lipped ranting that evolves into a Sunn o)))-style doom ritual. And when the beat returns on 'The Face of Others' it's wrapped around white noise outbursts, stifled laughter and backmasked screams - this ain't pretty. Just make sure you take the time to appreciate their neon-lit approximation of EBM on 'Dorothy', an X-rated intermingling of BDSM sleaze, brassy synth drones and sensualized acid wonks.
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Nicky Mao (aka Hiro Kone) and group A founder Tot Onyx land on Nicolas Jaar's Other People imprint with a gruesome set of burnished EBM/no-wave maneuvers - RIYL Suicide, Chris & Cosey, Kangding Ray or Factory Floor.
Enxin/Onyx have been working together for years - you might have spotted them on Atonal's 2021-released 'More Light Boxset', where the chaotic 'DIN DIAN' closed out the compilation. That track's revisited on 'In Rupture', refined to play out the album with rolling machine-gun kicks and spittleshot android screams. Tokyo-born, Berlin-based sound artist and performer Tot Onyx brings volume and projection to the album, augmenting Mao's iron-clad modular cycles and industrial-strength beats with eardrum rupturing noise and punky, impetuous vocals. On 'Flare and Coil', she bellows, spits and wails over Mao's jerky pulse sequences, vocalizing and scatting between phrases; her voice isn't just a weapon, it's an arsenal that rains fire on the noise, like Lydia Lunch gassing on a Pan Sonic loosie.
The duo dissolve their rhythms nearly completely on 'Needle Pierces the Threshold', opening up a creaking, post-apocalyptic soundscape for Tot Onyx's loose-lipped ranting that evolves into a Sunn o)))-style doom ritual. And when the beat returns on 'The Face of Others' it's wrapped around white noise outbursts, stifled laughter and backmasked screams - this ain't pretty. Just make sure you take the time to appreciate their neon-lit approximation of EBM on 'Dorothy', an X-rated intermingling of BDSM sleaze, brassy synth drones and sensualized acid wonks.