Subsist has been running out of Valencia since at least 2012, techno first but never only techno, and Faith Disciplines sits alongside it for the lo-fi and industrial end of the roster. Regular Transmitees have been through the door already. We reviewed Subsist’s ‘Subsist Dub Vol.1’, and we premiered Daher’s ‘Surge’ when he made his own Subsist debut.

‘Inconformista’ is SUBSIST.288D, twelve tracks, and it is out now. It has been more than two years in the making, and Not Charlie puts it down to a run of decisions that changed the shape of things for him and to what he has done with the months since. The title is the Spanish for nonconformist, which he says is the position he has settled on.

Thematically the album is very much on a sci-fi tip; a theme we see running through a lot of Subsist’s releases. We open with Ideas Inertes, which sounds like a signal from somewhere in the distant cosmos, with its chattering static crunches, pulsing blips, and swirling synths.

Momentum is the order of the day next with Causalidad, which boasts a propulsive feel thanks to its insistent percussion and brooding bottom end, interspersed with radar beeps and insectoid clicks. The mid point breakdown is excellent.

Servicio Social features wildly oscillating radio frequencies and alien chirruping amidst a solid 4/4 and hissing cymbals. We continue our sci-fi journey with Antes De Volver, where we are greeted by further inhuman conversation and tension-building siren sounds.

The album’s title track features Jupiterian winds blasting across the soundscape, with laser zaps and synth swells creating a real sense of otherworldliness before the percussion delivers the forward motion in the track.

The ticking clock, alarm sound, and muffled semi-vocalisations give La Mirada Correcta a sense of peril, while the bottom end undulates like rolling alien mountain ranges amidst broken beats. Jucio picks the pace on the follow up with a dancefloor friendly cut.

Synths pan frantically around the soundstage with the dense Esperando Su Llamada, with its low-slung beat and thick atmospheric, before Miedo picks us back up in terms of the tempo.

Ser Y Sentir follows with structured, precise techno for our return to the home planet, and we land with the calm glass bell synths arpeggiating dreamily through the hazy, dubby psychedelia of La Escencia.

We close on Vivir en La Ignorancia, or Living in Ignorance, translated. What exactly we are ingnorant of is another question. What lives beyond our immediate atmosphere? Or darker, more sinister forces? The mood of the closing track would suggest the latter.

Grab it on Bandcamp. Its a trip.