Uno se vuelve viejo sin notarlo.
No por los años,
sino por la cantidad de veces
que ha debido tragarse el grito.
Santiago Nicolás makes machine music with its teeth filed sharp to a clinical point, and his new single Ensayo Continuo de Precisión sounds like a pressure system encased within chrome. The Chilean producer, composer, and artist Santiago Nicolás González Lihn comes carrying a decade-plus of electronic damage and discipline, from The Deadly Affair, Access Device, and Ángel de la Guarda to his 2019 live work with Föllakzoid. That résumé could read like a passport stamped at every border between noise, techno, industrial music, and contemporary song, but the new track burns the paperwork and moves straight for the nervous system.
With Kimin Kim of the Korean band PCR at his side, Nicolás builds a piece of club music that feels freshly machined, cruelly clean, and wound tight enough to make your molars ache. The beat is all clipped muscle and blackened geometry, percussion striking with the dry authority of metal against bone, while the synths slide in with a polished menace that never begs for old-school approval.
The Spanish and Korean vocals give the track its blood pressure, moving through the mix like messages intercepted from opposite ends of the same damaged metropolis, voices carrying fatigue, precision, and a kind of civic panic. The languages pass each other in a charged space of repetition and restraint, each syllable pressed against the rhythm until speech begins to feel like a survival mechanism. The effect is intimate without getting soft, severe without becoming stiff.
Lyrically, Ensayo Continuo de Precisión circles strength, aging, swallowed cries, unnamed wounds, and the brutal little adjustments people make to keep walking when justice has stopped answering the door. Pain is treated as a force that alters posture, breath, and thought. Some people collapse inward; others keep planting seeds in ruined soil, as though creation itself were a stubborn reflex. The body, in this world, learns to think under pressure. The low end is compact and physical, the percussion severe, the sequencing hypnotic in the old sense of the word: it fixes your attention and starts working on your pulse. Yet beneath all that high-definition control sits a raw idea about living with the tremor, looking forward because looking away has already cost too much.
As the first preview of his upcoming 2026 EP, Ensayo Continuo de Precisión plants Santiago Nicolás in a sharp international lane of contemporary electronic music, where techno, post-punk tension, industrial discipline, and club violence are fused into a cold new grammar. It is elegant, anxious, and one hell of a club stomper.
Listen to Ensayo Continuo de Precisión below and order the single here.
Ensayo Continuo de Precisión by Santiago Nicolás
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