Orchestroll - Corrosiv

Label: 29 Speedway – 29S008
Format: 2 x 12", Album, Vinyl
Country: US
Released: May 30, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Ambient, Experimental, New Age, Sound Art

Corrosiv is the sophomore album from Orchestroll on New York-based record label 29 Speedway. Originally conceived as a reflection on hybridity and bastardisation, the album deploys New Age and ambient compositional tropes as a launchpad, exposing their trite sanctity to the realities of corrosion. 

Born from a two-week residency at EMS Studios and expanded through a performance at MUTEK Montreal’s 25th anniversary, Corrosiv has since outgrown its original conceptual nucleus, taking on a broader scope. Its inquiry into New Age ideology’s voided rhetoric and aesthetic mysticism now informs a broader interrogation of cultural mediocrity, anti-authoritarianism, gatekeeping, music industry toxicity, and the crumbling edifice of late capitalism and techno-feudalism—all the mechanisms by which meaning is stripped from ceremony, and once-potent forms of knowledge are subsumed into the machinery of economic extraction, severed from their original essence, and transformed into hollow simulacra. Corrosiv distills these themes through a loose narrative: a soul, fixated on wellness as dictated by cosmetic economism, becomes ensnared in an endless afterlife, unable to transcend and shed its dilapidated consciousness.

Framed as an act of audio dissolution, the album thus engages in an alchemical process, whereby complex wave shaping, morphing synthesis, and distortion enact a ritual of fragmentation. There is also friction: between the rigid, mechanical imposition of systematised order and the untamed, chaotic force of organic metamorphosis. Here corrosion and confinement are not solely conceptual motifs; they are enacted in real time, sculpting the album’s terrain. Scraping, tarnishing, degradation—the languid wear of form and substance—become instruments in their own right: buffing as abrasion, entrapment as transformation, corrosion as a means of reconfiguration. The ‘protagonist,’ if there must be one, is the listener, caught within the throes of structural determinism and the potential for emancipation, unable to pass into something greater as the specters of collapsed futures accumulate in the margins.

Corrosiv extends its reach through collaborations with familiar voices: Heith (PAN), VISIO (Haunter), Femminielli (Drowned by Locals), Habib Bardi (Interzone), and Jiyoung Wi (Enmossed, Psychic Liberation, Doyenne) each leave their imprint on its sprawling landscape. At 1h16m, it is a procession, dense with earworms that burrow into the listener’s unconscious.

A1. Patina Shift 
A2. Blistex 
A3. Rust Halo 
A4- Lesio
B1. Sightjacker ft. VISIO 
B2. Here Used to be a Star 
B3. Spume (Formerly an Icefield) 
B4. Hypnoxia 
C1. Astral Trepidation ft Jiyoung Wi 
C2. Spotshadowsphere 
C3. Cable Eater 
C4. Velvet Myst ft. Heith
D1. Nerveghost 
D2. Relaxus 
D3. L’ inaperçu nous traverse ft. Bernardino