Teetering precariously between discord and harmony, the prismatic distortion of Tot Onyx and Nicky Mao’s new project Enxin/Onyx abandons all former distinctions for something mutable and unsettling.
Their debut EP Dorothyopens with the forceful disquietude of “The Face of Others”, Tommi’s vocals cutting through the darkness to pull the listener inward, some divine sort of subterranean madness unraveling on all sides. Haunted voices bubbling up amongst shifting electronics, mercurial at times, confrontational at others. This constant interplay between elements of their individual practices giving way to a sonic experience that knows no bounds and comes as no surprise for both artists whose work spans across numerous collaborations, including film and dance.
Metallic and feral, murky and sharp, the debut four song EP Dorothy feels alive and impervious to current musical trends, making it an exciting debut for the duo who have teased their collaboration with a single and title track for Hiro Kone’s 2018 album Pure Expenditure (Dais Records). Wildly unhinged, “Pure Expenditure” garnered a lot of enthusiasm for the pair and their live performances are not to be missed. Following its success, they formed officially as a band, debuting their first official track “DIN DIAN”, an unrelenting and at times humorous attack on expectation, for Berlin Atonal’s 2020 box set More Light. Enxin/Onyx’s debut LP “In Rupture” is out now on Other People.
Hiro Kone is the project of New York based musician and producer Nicky Mao. She uses a combination of hardware, synths, and modular to cultivate her sound - a visceral meditation on rhythm, noise, and melody that has seen her release on leading experimental labels including DAIS Records and BANK Records. No stranger to manipulating macabre disorientations into enchanting new shapes, her music exposes the unsettling and sublime. Taking a deconstructive approach she is known to draw upon a combination of modular synthesis, noise and field recordings. Her album Silvercoat the throng was described by Resident Advisor’s Dash Lewis, as »Beautiful and harrowing, falling apart and building anew.«
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