MAQUINA.

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MAQUINA. blends dance culture with heavy-hook songcraft. Though <a href="spotify:artist:0U1D3GEq0HYA82J6WWw3DT" data-name="MAQUINA.">MAQUINA.</a>’s sound might have the club in its sights – ‘PRATA’ follows their aptly-titled 2023 EP ‘<a href="spotify:album:7vCLEizWTP0lqwuG3GHihu" data-name="DIRTY TRACKS FOR CLUBBING">DIRTY TRACKS FOR CLUBBING</a>’ – this is an organic dance music that’s equally punk and psychedelic, played by a guitar-drums-bass power trio formation firing on all cylinders, without a synthesizer in sight. Instead, the <a href="spotify:artist:0U1D3GEq0HYA82J6WWw3DT" data-name="MAQUINA.">MAQUINA.</a>. M.O. is relentless machine-like drums and primal vocal outbursts (Halison), scuzzy floor-shaking bass riffs (Tomás) and piercing guitar noise and FX (João). Having already amassed a notorious reputation in Portugal for the all-out energy of their live shows, it’s no mean feat to replicate that in the studio but on ‘PRATA’ they have managed exactly that – owing to a creative approach largely rooted in improvisation, both on stage and in the studio. Describing ‘PRATA’, recorded and co-produced by Carlos de Jesus (<a href="spotify:artist:6U9zwix0yp800xsHQdH89E" data-name="Sunflowers">Sunflowers</a>) at Arda Recorders, they write: “It&#39;s music of colour, delving into depths and dimensions that resonate with scale and contrast. Pushing sounds together to make noise and pushing noise together to make sounds."