Avoidance by Fall Shock

It’s not so often that a record finds its way to you that truly resonates at your core, I’m sure you have had that feeling, where time and space melts away, transforming your immediate surroundings, making you question if you really knew who you were as what you are hearing just transports you to another realm. ‘Avoidance’ is that record for us at PS HQ by Francesco Kay or as he is better known, Fall Shock. The Italian electronic music producer, drummer and singer is an all encompassing musical artist transcending his physical bounds, drawing from higher planes of the creative ether, a place only few humans know how to tune into and draw signals from. I would say this is due to his long career crafting his output. Striking the balance and complexity of human emotions, interwoven between urgency and restraint, specific intentions to engage, to make you listen, to make you dance, to make you FEEL. We are psyched to announce the first EP and a new era from Fall Shock.

In the Age of Clowns - most clowns no longer work in the circus but their offspring now live amongst us, following their past lineage, using the tools of social media to carry out their deep primal desires to want the spotlight, at any cost, for a day, for a month only to throw is away after a year. The clowns are all around us, subverting all factions of society, subverting the fabric of what we love, democracy, freedom, art. We didn’t ask for this version of reality. The overall arching theme of the track interprets this current dilemma we find ourselves in like a failed social experiment, spiraling through a vortex of confusion, following the command to Copy, paste, repeat, because everyone else is doing the same thing. Gibberish high pitched voices phasing in and out before we are struck down by the iron kick and bass, grounding ourselves in the now, a reminder that not all hope is lost in the age of clowns.

I have found myself once again toying with the idea of music as magic, maybe even hypnosis, a point in case with Avoidance which is the namesake EP title and is a potent club banger. Existing in a space undefinable, with an overly machine driven sonic palette, nostalgic influences of 90’s and early 2000’s dance music emitting from the UK but ultimately existing as its own sonic piece. Once we arrive at the pitch bend lead that slowly rises we’re here, energetic, aggressive but safe, as if it were a living being with a rebellious mind that has awakened after a period of glaciation. Now everything is hope and new life, I feel you.

Avoidance and The Age Of Clowns are part of a single path, a single concept of tracks suitable for people who never give up. Francesco masterfully crafts his past lineage, hinting nostalgic dance floor feelings while zooming into the zeitgeist of the future for his project Fall Shock.

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