Mind Of God, Di-Noise - MindNoise
A new split release from Peru has hit the street, two artists offering head-splitting electronics and rhythmic leftfield droppings. Mind of God hails from the US (With tracks mastred by John Stillings of Steel Hook Prostheses), and Di-Noise hails from Peru and each is doing their cool thing for this release. A limited 300 CD release, out on Renacer Records. 8 tracks, about 30 minutes.
First track Impending Revenge Porn Dokument Drop hits it up like an up-tempo Mick Harris/Scorn, a lovely and hypnotic jazzy-cool relentless big city drum. Slightly claustrophobic in sound it is, the kind of rhythms one might hear in a small cellar room (or in the attic!). Additional droid-like but organic sound-samples/drones melts in and out of the ear, perfectly working together with the rhythms. Percussive and machine-like clicks and clocks working there also. Dark and jazzy drum-machine music for rusty robots kind of. Second track Increasing Methodose turns up the cellar-like darkness. A slower thing than the first track, but slightly more menacing. Looped and evocative trip-hop drums with additional industrial percussions and sub-sonic bass-elements, how could anyone imagine that dark-shit could be so catchy?! (and funky!). Sounds of vinyl-scratching, tv-samples, and those rusty and warped droid sounds are also there. The last Mind Of God track called The Supreme Ordeal also being the most industrial-like of all the Mind of God tracks. A punishing beat of slow hammer´ish beats, basically falling on top of your head (rhythmically) and maybe just like when a droid starts punching your stomach in! A lovely experimental piece with excellent drum-machine programming with eerie distorted voices (And samples!). A good start for this split!. The gif-picture below perfectly illustrates these 3 GREAT tracks!
Di-noise first track When Machine Wake Up continues the split perfectly. The jazzy and rusty basement feel has been replaced by a smooth and high-tech glitch-sound in some hip Bladerunner bar. It starts with high above dark-sound, and then it just slowly descends your physical presence into the futuristic city below. Droids and people are walking on the streets, computerized traffic, flying drones with coca-cola commercials on their huge screens, etc etc. Cool sounds and rhythms and plenty of that cyberpunk mood. Next track Find Me has a minor synth/retro-wave element in it, the nicely organized (and slightly random) rhythms adds extra coolness to the track. The third Di-noise track Insert Coin works more in a kind of 8-bit music meets electronica. That nostalgic feel of standing inside the arcade and being surrounded by hundreds of arcade-machines, while having people hammering their fingers rhythmically on the buttons. Next offering called Virus, a short noisy messed up mutant dub-step treat almost impossible to dance to (but sounds good nonetheless). The very last track Anxiety, being a slightly stressed-out droid on bad droid-juice. It starts and then it breaks down, end of the split album!.
A release well worth anyone's attention, and with a broad audience as well. There is something for the industrial-dub fans of Scorn, downbeat/trip-hop, dark-ambient, glitch, electronica/IDM, and drone ... You name it!. One of the must check out releases of 2018.
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