Into the Abyss (Circadian Ambience Mix)
by 16 Faces from Berlin, Germany
Ambient Bass Electronica Experimental Soundtrack/Score
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New and up-coming, Berlin-based Australian sound designer and music producer 16 Faces announces his debut with Into the Abyss, an intense, yet somber, deep ambient and heavily texturalised score. The densely layered, haunting percussive-drone production toys with notions around circadian rhythms, and themes about life and death. The track also features as the soundtrack to the short film Circadian, directed by Petter Jensen for the Japanese fashion brand Beaugan.
Into the Abyss weaves together distorted staccato synths fluidly with hauntingly dissonant strings, dystopian textures and eerie simple melodic motifs. It builds on the artist’s love for melancholic bass music, and contemporary jungle and rave, albeit recontextualised into something more cinematic, vivid, and dramatic. The finely crafted ambience breathes and pulsates around sparse ritual chants, and fragmented tribal drum work that has been deeply informed by Haitian Vodou styles. 16 Faces is the new outlet for the arcane and relatively enigmatic and experimental, Berlin-based musician. With an extensive background that has taken him across several continents, expanding on his deeply nuanced work —
that has been influenced by ambient electronics, rich IDM sounds, and dystopic techno — Into the Abyss takes the artist into new emotive, and expressive territory. Having previously collaborated with UK conceptual-noise imprint Algebra of Need, with whom he toured Japan with in 2017, in addition to receiving DJ-support from the likes of Moodymanc, Adam Beyer, and Jacques Greene for previously unreleased tracks, 16 Faces is already carrying a certain amount of credible clout.
** The track is due to go live on soundcloud towards the end of January with the official music release, but we officially have launched the video the track has been used for on youtube. My preference would be to use the video but if this is an issues please reach out. Thank you.
