I apologize this review isn’t as helpful as it might be, but I have a limited vocabulary for talking about music like this. Some of the most experimental electronic music I’ve heard: abrassive screeching without beats and for the most part entirely atonal. Has a very full, potent sound though, and is clearly a very serious attempt at something, I’m just not entirely sure what. As a sidenote, this is the first electronic music I’ve heard more vicious than Squarepusher’s live concerts of the past few years. For chaotic madness, try: 4, or anything else. For a bit of sanity, try: 6
1) Harsh IDM type beat with vicious screeching electronic noises and a guy speaking Spanish. 2) Essentially no beat. Just screeching mumbling chaotic synths. 3) A Chaotic, manic, atonal mesh of electronic noise. 4) Total chaos. Vicious insistent drill beats and noise completely overwhelms you. I dare you to tell me this isn’t hardcore enough for your show. Entitled ‘California’…I don’t quite see the connection. 5) What sounds like computer modem dialing noises with an ocean of electronic noise coming in and out of focus. A guy comes in at the beginning, the middle, and at the end saying something in Spanish about California. 6) Beautiful track! Out of nowhere we have a simple beautiful melody. The chaos of the album is still here, but it’s latent in the background. A simple click and some hand claps are the only beat a simple echo-y synth carries the tune. 7) Very thin track with various electronics coming in and out. A short collage of sound. 8) Creepy distorted vox muttering nonsense and an assortment of different rhythmic motives in another manic electronic sea. 9) Starts with an answering machine message. Track then uses ultra stripped down beats and synths that are reminiscent of Kraftwerk in combination with the usual screeches and distorted vox. It sounds like someone is playing an actual guitar here, but I really can’t be sure. 10) Another mesh of chaotic bubble-y noise and some sort of distored vox. Like an interlude on an Aphex twin album but harsher. 11) Industrial banging noises and a simple snyth going up and down three notes with a voice saying something. 12) Slightly thinner sound. The usual squeals…13) High-pitched screeching and attacks of noise.
-Mike, i.e. The Professor