"Hungarian musician Weldroid, known for his bionic, bitcrushing releases on Kahvi, debuts on Soft Phase with a new EP. "Splines" is the tale of a mechanical man in search of his maker.

While Weldroid retains his signature robotic elements -- pounding electronic beats, glittering circuitry, bone-deep bass, growling horn voices backed by minor ambient drones -- there's a warmer, human side to this album. An underlying natural pulse, the heartbeat of a world in need of saving. The power of hope and steadfast resolve. A lonely android wandering through vast, forgotten caverns, through luminescent pools of coolant, assaulted by chaotic code fragments, blasted by crystal-edged melodies and chilled, stuttering data streams.

Weldroid takes us on a journey through static-filled wastelands, tracking the stumbling footsteps of the mechanical man as he braves windblown grit and harsh sine waves. Glitched rhythms and plastic melodies are his only companions. A burnished bronze city gleams in the distance, at its rusted heart is the promise of restoration. The ancient machinery of "Splines" still throbs and sizzles with purpose, yearning to be awakened." -- Joshua Saddler

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