The São Paulo electro-industrial partnership of Fab Viscardi and Gui Pires, Aesthetische, has issued a new four-track EP, “Mix The State”, through Alfa Matrix on 6 November 2026. The record is built around “Break The State,” a cut the Brazilian EBM duo first aired on their earlier “Every Beat Matters” EP, and in a new conversation carried by Side-Line the pair tie the whole project to a turbulent election year at home.
Across the interview Viscardi and Pires frame the release as a direct answer to Brazil’s 2026 vote, the country’s recent coup trial and what they call a worldwide surge of the far right. They argue that Brazilians “broke the state” twice over — first by returning Lula to the presidency in 2022 while seeing off an attempted coup, then this year by turning out in large numbers to block the son of the jailed former president and keep a centre-left government in office. For the duo, the slogan is aimed not at democratic institutions but at authoritarian, plutocratic politicians they view as aligned with far-right power abroad.
The pair also reflect on how state power now reaches ordinary people through apps, payment rails, facial-recognition cameras and benefit-deciding algorithms — tools they warn can be bent into instruments of fear and misinformation. They present the EP as the newest chapter in a sequence that opened with “Selling Fear” and ran on through “Every Beat Matters,” each sharpening the same stand against extremism and the concentration of economic power.
“Mix The State” is out now on the Alfa Matrix store, and the full EP can be streamed over on Bandcamp.
Inside the ‘Mix The State’ EP
The four-track set reshapes “Break The State” into a corrosive “static noise version” and a floor-focused “electric hell version,” and rounds things out with the previously unreleased “Alarmstate.” It carries forward the anti-authoritarian theme the duo laid down on “Every Beat Matters.”
Read the full conversation
Aesthetische go much further on Brazil’s politics, the shifting shape of state power and the thinking behind the record in the complete exchange. Read the full interview on Side-Line.
About Aesthetische
Aesthetische pairs two São Paulo musicians, Fab Viscardi and Gui Pires, whose earlier work together ran through the Brazilian projects Aghast View and Biopsy. They landed on Belgium’s Alfa Matrix back in 2012 with a debut album, “Powerswitch,” and have fed the imprint a steady flow of records across the years that followed, the full-lengths “HybridCore” (2014) and “Rvprty” (2022) among them. On the shorter-format side, their recent run takes in the 2023 EP “Boiling Over,” followed by 2024’s “Confidence Is Silent,” then the six-song EPCD “Selling Fear” in 2025 and this year’s “Every Beat Matters,” the release where “Break The State” first surfaced. Plenty more of the label’s catalogue waits over on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp.