Swedish techno duo SHXCXCHCXSH will release a new album in November, titled OUFOUFOF. 

We’re told that OUFOUFOF represents the “beginning of a new turn” for SHXCXCHCXSH, one born out of a fresh conceptual approach to rhythm.

Having concentrated in recent years on music for more experimental scenes, SHXCXCHCXSH wanted to create music for the club, but not with the usual 4/4 approach—“…the main focus being our relationship with the dancers’ minds and how we do our best to fuck with them.” 

Stylistically, the project began with a discussion about rhythm, about what is interesting and what is not. The result is a conceptualized approach, one in which multiple sounds in each track are based around a single rhythmic pattern. This concept has been extended holistically, to track names and artwork. We’re told that what began life as a series of records has evolved into an eight-track LP of “twisted, polyrhythmic studies in pattern and texture.”

This will be the Berlin-based duo’s fourth studio album, and the sixth release on Rösten, the label they founded in 2017.  Elsewhere, they’ve appeared on Shifted’s Avian label. 

Tracklisting

A1. OUFOUFOF

A2. FFUFFUFU

B1. UUOUUOUU

B2. OFFOFFOF

C1. FUOFUOFU

C2. UFOFUOFU

D1. FOFFOFFO

D2. OOUOOUOO

OUFOUFOF will land on November 5, with a snippet of “UUOUUOUU” below.