The Perpetual Self Doubt

by Phiorio

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1.	Doubt 02:51	info	buy track
2.	Storm 08:32	info	buy track
3.	Hanging 03:13	info	buy track
4.	Believe 06:30	info	buy track
5.	Evil 247 03:04	info	buy track
6.	My Memory 06:30	info	buy track
7.	Somewhere Else 06:11	info	buy track
8.	Nemesis 05:21	info	buy track
9.	Spark 07:44	info	buy track

about

Brand new album - and fresh new sonic approach - from Metroline Records co-founder and veteran minimal techno producer Phiorio.

In a world - and an era - of much uncertainty and restriction, Phiorio took a step sideways, looking away from the somewhat rigid ‘rules’ of electronic club music - the prescribed BPMs, the restrictive palette of sounds, the universally agreed formula of minimal techno - to produce his most personal and surprising work in years.

A bold new freedom was acquired in discarding the safety net of structural familiarity - the cold surgical steel of precision-made techno is here replaced with more atmospheric, woozy and smudged aesthetic. There’s still percussion, but of a looser, more organic, less mechanistic flavour. The music is still propulsive, but not so much a futuristic shining chromium monorail, more of a late-night drive, an automotive drift through an unlit and slightly foreboding landscape.

Nocturnal melodies, half-recalled memories, late night visions, cold sweats - The Perpetual Self Doubt is an enigmatic fever dream populated by fluttering synths, corporeal basslines, wraithlike half-heard voices, ghost drones, miasmic echoes and ambiguous atmospheres.

In a similar manner to antecedents Drexciya with their aquatic afrofuturist aesthetic or Wolfgang Voigt’s GASeous frozen Bavarian forests, Phiorio – for all his self-deprecating self-doubt – has impressively and confidently created his own sonic universe, his own cinema-of-the-mind, an intimate and singular authorial voice.

It is at times a disquieting and eerie journey to embark upon, but it is a journey you’ll want to take again and again, hearing (and possibly hallucinating) new facets and details with every listen.

In loving memory of my dear friend Andrea Kalenda (RIP)

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released December 8, 2023

Written and produced by Gianpiero Fiorin
Mastered at I-deal mastering lab by Andrea Kalenda

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Phiorio London, UK

Phiorio is Gianpiero Fiorin.
Also known for running the label Metroline Limited, Phiorio has released a bunch of releases on the label over the years.
His musical style has always been centered around stripped back techno until recently where his love for dark and experimental music saw him venture in different territories via his alias 'Spectrograph' and brand new experiments on the Phiorio tag. ... more

discography

The Perpetual Self Doubt

Dec 2023
A Giant Leap Of Faith

Nov 2020
Sketches

Sep 2020
Sharp And Open

Mar 2019
ML_Tracks

Dec 2018
Animals

Jun 2014
Swimming In The Air

Mar 2014
Polar Mutations

Feb 2013
RM10

Feb 2011
RM05

May 2010
Chaikenfish Remixes

Jan 2010

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