[Premiere] nikitaw0lfe + Noumeno – AFTERIMAGE

nikitaw0lfe (she/her)  is a Rome-incarnated, Milan-based producer, singer, and DJ, matching the description of that insecure but lowkey toxic girl with a dark secret you followed on Tumblr back in 2014 before you lost all traces of her whereabouts. Her musical path started in 2017 under the moniker “TRXSPVSSXR”, mostly meddling with hip hop, cloud rap, witch house, and phonk, to then move to incorporate her vocals into diehard sonic experiments with all kinds of internet-originated music genres, always with a distinctive cursed DIY edge. Noumeno (he/him), a cult artist in the contemporary underground Italian scene known for his outings on the Milan-based Haunter Records among others, defines himself as a mutagen operating through the contamination of music elements alien to one another arranged via preset-core sound design. Some would be able to recall his legendary, truly avantgarde dwellings with mutant trap reworks and edits such as the seminal, age-defining, Steve Reich-ian edit of the UK drill hit “Keisha & Becky” that appeared on our debut v/a comp “WE NEVER WILL”.

These two cutting-edge artists joined forces in 2023 to start a new platform and netlabel called Club Regret, a space for experimenting with internet aesthetics and extreme fringes of emo and electronic music. Today, we’re extremely pleased to present you with their latest collaboration, the “YOU’RE GONNA REGRET THIS YOUR WHOLE LIFE” debut collaborative EP also featuring contributions by NikkiCarrera and gЯill.

Composed of five tracks, the release spans a length of just a few seconds over 12 minutes. However, thanks to its ability to convey radical, gut-wrenching emotions, each track feels like a heartfelt, life-long introspection exercise. Showing an unmatched sound design mastery, nikitaw0lfe and Noumeno manage to craft unadulterated, raw energy into scalpel-sharp, surgical music productions. All the influences that brought the two artists together are condensed in this multi-layered journey through rave-adjacent electronic echoes and alternative rock/metal crossovers, filtered through an emotionally charged lens and expressed via a detached meta-ironic attitude.

The EP is a fluid, mastodontic sonic creature assailing you with growls, blackened riffs, unforgiving 808s, tear-jerking melodies, and ton-heavy layers of distortions. In their wide music genre explorations, the two artists unleash chaos with screamo episodes only to hit you one second later with a brief but articulate death metal progression, scratchy screams, and the sickest voice drops drawing from a deep knowledge of Internet culture. You will need to go over this record many times to catch all the little facets of this emo, trap, metal, post-club masterpiece. “Here Comes The Pain”: suffering has indeed arrived and it will never leave. Just like you won’t be able to forget about these tracks.