Isoneph is an electronic music project started in 2011 by Mario Buoninfante, an Italian musician based in London, UK.
Over the years, the project has branched out into different directions, always maintaining its roots in beats, dub, and heavy bass music, while also exploring the more experimental corners of the electronic music world.
Alternate Rhythms is the result of two years exploring stripped-down, minimalist forms, and focusing on bass, rhythm and space. While the concept of ‘beats’ is central, space and time play an equally important role, projecting the work onto a more experimental plane, where samplers and a mix of synthetic and electric bass form the foundation, and keys and synths cast a ‘dub shadow’ over a bed of beats and glitches.
The work features two sides: Part One (‘Outset’), completed first and initially considered a standalone work, and Part Two (‘Transliteration’), which includes tracks begun concurrently or even earlier in time, but initially left unfinished. As part of a broader phase of introspection and reflection triggered by personal events, a reevaluation of the tracks that comprise Part Two revealed similarities between the two sides, with an unexpected similarity in structure both at the track and side levels. It’s as if the two clusters of four tracks had developed along parallel time streams.
