Forma y Fondo

by FAX

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1.	Ejercicio 1 03:22	buy track
2.	Forma Y Fondo 04:33	buy track
3.	Ejercicio 3 03:22	buy track
4.	Flex 03:25	buy track
5.	Convey 05:08	buy track
6.	Memoria 03:44	buy track
7.	Empty Dream 05:48	buy track

about

Mexicali’s Fax (Rubén Alonso Tamayo) got his start more than two decades ago making wispy glitch techno in keeping with the era’s clicks + cuts movement. It had been a while since I had heard material of his—that’s on me, not him; he’s remained remarkably prolific over the years—so I was surprised to hear just how burly the first track on his new one sounds. Utilizing a relatively stripped-down setup of synthesizers, electric guitar, and effects, Tamayo summons up a resolutely unvarnished sound—lumpy modular bass squelch, lurching white-noise thwacks, skeletal pads and stuttering pulses. The severity of a track like “Forma y Fondo” reminds me, faintly, of Ben Frost—but where Frost emphasizes overload, Fax strips back till the electric guitar is little more than a sliver of crescent moon. At first chilly, the album warms as it goes; “Ejercicio 3” is a gorgeous swatch of Muscut- or Faitiche-esque ambient brooding, while the flickering “Flex” is one of the loveliest bits of pop ambient I’ve heard this year.
- PHILIP SHERBURNE | Futurism Restated

...Su nuevo álbum Forma y Fondo, siete nuevos temas en donde distintas tendencias electrónicas como el ambient, el glitch y el techno se dan cita para fluir como mantras, como pequeños espacios de reflexión, de melancolía y de contemplación. El músico continua con esa carrera tan constante que ha labrado con ya más de veinte años en el camino y que sigue sorprendiéndonos o atrapándonos con sus sonidos y ambientaciones que crea.
- TONY SPINOTTI | Primero Fué El Sonido

credits

released April 5, 2024

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rubén A. Tamayo at Facsimile Sound. Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. All music by Rubén A. Tamayo (ASCAP).

Instruments:
1 Modular system
1 Delay unit
3 Analog synthesizers
1 Digital synthesizer
1 Electric guitar
1 Digital processing unit

Trumpet arrangements on 3 and 6 written and performed by Fabián Tirado.

Artwork: Markus Schäfer at Büro Ink. Design: Rubén A. Tamayo.
www.faxmusik.com

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FAX Mexicali, Mexico

Musician, producer, and art director from Baja.
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Runs Facade Electronics.
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Co-founder of Static Discos.

linktr.ee/faxmusik

discography

Forma y Fondo

Apr 2024
Rest

Nov 2023
Shapes

Aug 2023
Live in Studio

Feb 2023
Catalog Number STA122

Nov 2022
Quicksand

Jun 2021
Bureau

Feb 2023
Itan

Feb 2023
Laguna

Feb 2023

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