MAQUINA. – dança (with Dame Area)
MAQUINA. are a Lisbon trio: Halison Peres on drums and vocals, João Cavalheiro on guitar, José Rego on bass. After DIRTY TRACKS FOR CLUBBING (2023) and PRATA (2024), their third album BODY TRANSMISSION is out July 10 via Fuzz Club. “dança (with Dame Area)” is its opening track and first single, and it sets the tone for where the band are headed: heavier, more focused, and harder to ignore.
“dança” was one of the first tracks written after PRATA, and unusually, the lyrics came before the music. The song was inspired by Catalan duo Dame Area, and as it took shape, the band sent it to them asking for a kind of blessing. What came back was a collaboration: Dame Area vocalist Silvia Konstance added her voice to the track, and her contribution shifted the whole thing. What you get is relentless 4/4 drums locking in with a repetitive hypnotic bassline, a guitar that cuts through with searing focus, and vocals from Halison and Konstance that move from controlled to feral and back. The second minute adds a second, screeching guitar layer and the intensity ratchets up until the song feels genuinely overwhelming. The band describe the album as “always in motion”, and this track earns that description from the first second. MAQUINA. cross krautrock, industrial electronics and noise in a way that doesn’t feel like a genre exercise; it feels like the only logical outcome of the thing they’re building. I’ve had this on repeat since it landed.
The band has been touring Europe through May, including a headline slot at The Dome in London and a set at The Great Escape in Brighton.
