Ben Milstein
ProcrastinateWith the so called electro ‘revival’ having long since reached its zenith, the market has been awash with a host of identikit labels all flogging their own brand of sterile 808 clones. Consequently it’s not often that you hear something so fresh and as accomplished as this, which does truly sound as if it was made on a different planet to the other music out there. What's really frightening though is that at least three of these tracks are a couple of years old!
Milstein uses self-generated software from the Super Collider program and he manages to eke out the most demented and apocalyptic sounds from his machines that will turn your head inside out. On each of the four tracks, swathes of distortion, trickles of acid and fat, farting bass squelches run wild around the roughest of beats that rampage in and out of the tracks like a herd of angry elephants.
The instant killer for me is the A1, with its rugged whiplash kicks and wobbly echoing melody, although the slightly slower B2 runs a close second. The tracks all have real depth, not merely relying on obvious hooks or loops to keep the listener’s interest; just as a groove snags you in, it evolves into something else as everything dissolves into a sea of distortion or is swallowed up by a huge barrage of bass and the track hits you from yet another angle.
If Autechre made electro for the dancefloor, this is what they would sound like.
Milstein uses self-generated software from the Super Collider program and he manages to eke out the most demented and apocalyptic sounds from his machines that will turn your head inside out. On each of the four tracks, swathes of distortion, trickles of acid and fat, farting bass squelches run wild around the roughest of beats that rampage in and out of the tracks like a herd of angry elephants.
The instant killer for me is the A1, with its rugged whiplash kicks and wobbly echoing melody, although the slightly slower B2 runs a close second. The tracks all have real depth, not merely relying on obvious hooks or loops to keep the listener’s interest; just as a groove snags you in, it evolves into something else as everything dissolves into a sea of distortion or is swallowed up by a huge barrage of bass and the track hits you from yet another angle.
If Autechre made electro for the dancefloor, this is what they would sound like.
