“Rene” by Gastel Conjures Visions of a Robotic Dance Contest to Determine the Course of the Cybernetic Future

 

“Rene” begins like the intro them to

gone sinister. The single by Gastel goes on to a hard driving dance rhythm like a synthesis of The Prodigy at their most dance abstract techno and modern EDM. But instead of a bass drop, Gastel drops out into a distorted white noise haze before dropping back in with a beat of swarming tones and that hard arpeggiation that borders on synthwave style except its dynamics are more supple and the sounds more distorted and jagged. The song’s cybernetic pulse and sense of menace makes it sound like the theme music to a robotic dance competition undertaken to determine which iteration of artificial beings will triumph into the next generation of existence. Listen to “Rene” on Soundcloud.