XTEREA - Mode Of Existence

mindseyesrecords.xyz - CD

UK, 2026

Bass / Electronic / Experimental

Brutal cybernetic bass music from 5 GATE TEMPLE's affiliate XTEREA on Bristol's mindseyesrecords.xyz. Genuinely contemporary dance music, a perfect fit for the dystopian junk that our information societies are. Exclusive CD edition for Office PSR &  Osaka's naminohana records. Highly recommended.

Channeling, chopping, rearranging a mess of wires and signals into compact high-impulse, jaw-clenching, bass heavy productions, XTEREA dodges the nostalgia syndrome that has perniciously infected UK bass in recent years, charting instead a new stopover in the hardcore continuum. This era's current obsession with Mark Fisher's writings and turn-of-the-century cyberpunk aesthetics (Serial Experiments Lain) signals a desperate need for vernacular futuristic visions - no matter how dark they might be, as long as they offer a counter-narrative to the colorful corporate AI-generated slop we're constantly being spoon-fed. Mode Of Existence offers such visions, and as contemporary as they are, they nonetheless update a tradition of paranoid, amphetamine-heavy and insurrectional cultural productions, those adjacent to free party and alter-globalization movements for instance. A welcome update.