Monday 6 June 2016

Gultskra Artikler - Industria


Gultskra Artikler - Industria cover art

Good to see Alexey Devyanin on Opal Tapes - well, good to see and more to the point hear him anywhere, especially when he comes up with something of this quality. Industria positively leaps at you like a cunning, vicious beast hiding amid the ruins of the industrial music wasteland (it's not dead, it just smells funny?). Love the title, suggesting as it does classic library albums from the 70s, of which there are many on the theme of industrialisation although I'm thinking specifically of Joel Vandroogenbroeck's Industrial Retrospect...

...this is no cute retro-library homage, though; it starts right with Distortion and doesn't go wrong, anywhere, at any time - proper Techno, as people say...but usually in response to some 'legend'...from the Midlands...who's stuck in a 4/4 time loop forever&ever&ever&everzzzzzzzzzzzzz...(not naming names, of course)...

Melted Percussions...(lemme play it again)...the opening alone is spot on, Artikler not faffing around or overdoing things...weighted just right with an evil beat & those FXs! Thunderfall...you're being smacked 'round the head by a pair of swinging metal balls (you know the feeling)...this is a really mean record but smart, so smart...not to the point of ever going off on that wobbly rail of fake avant-gardery but instead always carving out fresh rhythms...a savage mechanism deployed for maximum effect...I'll shut up - you listen...

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