Argentinian producer SebaSchiume is a boundary-pushing alchemist of sound, merging streetwise pulse with electronic innovation and ritualistic percussion. His work defies eras, splicing primal echoes with forward-thinking production – a signature honed through years of collaborative daring and immersive solo quests. “Fragmentos,” his inaugural long-form statement, crystallizes this ethos: an odyssey where clattering urban cadences dissolve into lush, dreamlike expanses. The LP’s architecture thrives on contrast – urgency meets serenity, chaos orbits clarity – stitched together by tactile beats and airborne synths. Field recordings and disembodied whispers blur reality, while rhythms fracture and reform like living organisms. More than a collection, it’s a metamorphic manifesto; a point of arrival for the artist and a compass pointing beyond.
Premiered here, “Disociación” is pure IDM-twisted alchemy – SebaSchiume feeds broken beats through a fractal prism, spitting out rhythms that glitch like corrupted data. Percussion skitters between precision and sabotage, its clicks, cuts, and sub-bass drops forming a puzzle where pieces almost fit. Melodies flicker like static-choked transmissions, their warmth warped by granular synthesis into eerie, half-human sighs. It’s Aphex Twin gnashing teeth with Latin electronica’s raw pulse, but distilled into something colder, sharper. The genius? Even at its most abstract, the groove moves – a paradox of heady calculus and hip-swaying instinct. This isn’t music for the common dance floor, it’s the sound of its deconstruction.
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