Swiss-based producer and creative director Giorgio Fazio takes listeners down a rabbit hole of sound and philosophy with his new EP Nothing but Simulation, dropping August 22, 2025. Having premiered the title track on August 17 during a guest set on Foodmanโs NTS Radio show, Fazio introduces a generative digital space that mirrors the very idea it interrogates: if we are living in a simulation, what happens when we build another one inside it? Rooted in centuries of thought stretching from Plato to Nick Bostrom, this EP translates heady speculation into texture, rhythm, and atmosphere.
The opener โNothing but Simulationโ sets the tone with a haunting refrain, eerie high-pitched voice-like synths repeating โee, ee, eeโ as though calling out from inside a machine. A thick bassline underpins the track, anchoring the sound while glitches scatter like sparks across its surface. Then thereโs the dripping echo of synths that kinda reminded me of water droplets, an organic illusion in a digital frame, before the whole thing spirals into a storm of buzzing distortion and pounding beats. Itโs a system destabilizing in real time, tugging the listener between chaos and immersion.
On the flip side, โBut Something Feels Realโ takes a more suspended approach. Ambient tones float at first, airy and expansive, with soft voices flickering like digital ghosts. Then a deep pulse enters, buzzing, glitching, building momentum as if the track itself is fighting to stabilize. The push and pull between calm atmosphere and insistent beats feels like a program loading, glitching, and reloading, always on the edge of coherence.
Altogether, Giorgio Fazioโs Nothing but Simulation is an existential listening experience, blurring art, sound, and philosophy into a work that unsettles as much as it fascinates. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan