"Now based in Ireland, @novasdemise is a Lithuanian-born visual artist, producer and DJ. Aside creative direction duties for @doubletakerecords he has studiously, tenaciously developed an individual sound wherein an encyclopaedic enthusiasm for hardcore is intertwined with experimental sound design and influence from the wider continuum of bass music. This counterbalancing of a purist's ear and sonic experimentalism has distilled into ND's own sub-genre of avant-hardcore, exemplified by the track HALF LIFE on DT's Torrent comp. Subterranean atmospherics, industrial ambience, hadal drums and the eerie sound of occasional respiration, the tune exemplifies an effect where deconstruction leads to magnification - a track where it is in absence that legitimate futurity is sighted.
As a DJ, ND has played across storied venues like Corsica Studios, White Hotel and Venue MOT, for some of the true pathfinders of contemporary club experimentalism (SYPHEN, Hypoxia, K.O - of which ND is a member). His sets encompass the superlative aptitude for hardcore aforementioned, he brings a library unique in its fuel for exploration of a pummelling darkness, replete with post-club and crossbreed.
2024 has seen the emergence of the duo helveticacock (alongside Double Take colleague vorem ipsum). Combining destructive post-club and hardcore with a pop sensibility and irreplicable, satirical aesthetics, out comes this prodigious twosome."
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