Jesse Broekman on bass and electronics and Christian Streit Smith on drums form the Ghent and The Hague–based duo Contrafacta. Their music is focused on the interplay of their live instruments with vivid accompanying electronics that crackle with warmth. Playing with tension and release, Smith's textural, frenetic drumming becomes enmeshed with the ambience, interrupted by moments of distortion and blast beat obliteration that summon visions of misty black metal landscapes. Analogue generation loss and digital processing are implemented upon their songs, disintegrating their textures into the euphoric swells of granular synths and cymbals and bass. Saturated, in every meaning of the word, the cinematic music of Contrafacta drips with ethereal strangeness; witness the symbiosis of the instruments and the performers as they navigate bliss and loss through stochastic rhythms that pulse like alien heartbeats.