Pete Swanson + Driphouse + Element Kuuda + Noir

Pete Swanson

Là où Yellow Swan utilise les pulsations afin d’attacher leurs cascades de bruits blanc,  Swansonmet ici  la percussion battante a 140 bpms  en plein cœur de la scène, comme le démontre la pièce d’ouverture, appelée d’une façon charmante Misery Beat. Donnant la note à la musique qui suit, nous sommes lancés  tête première  dans un bavardage de cris synthétisés et de batterie dense avant d’être frappé derrière la tête par un genre de bruit glissant  et insistant que l’on n’avait pas entendu depuis Going Places. C’est la techno de Birmingham filtré à travers la brume du Nord Ouest Pacifique et c’est très bon pour cela. Ailleurs,  Remote View explore les tempos plus lent, qui nous rappelle la musique house post apocalyptique tel qu’entendu dans les toilettes d’un club.

Avec Man With Potential Pete Swanson fait  sa plus grande déclaration à ce jour  en construisant  une collection virulente de musique de club doublée d'une touche de noise assourdissante. Ce n’est peut-être pas facile à écouter, mais qui a dit que la vie devait être facile.

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Drip House

Daren Ho, ex-membre de Raccoo-oo-oon, présente son projet solo digital Driphouse. Des textures drone ambient, une toile de fond pulsative, des couches de synthé, des houles vocales profondes – il rappelle de grands moments de Kraut Electronic Cyborg Bliss mais à sa façon. Des vibrations transe pour l’ère numérique.

Much has been made of the re-emergence of beats in experimental music, but if you listened carefully enough to Pete Swanson’s output to this point you’ll realize those rhythms have been present for a long time. The New York-based artist might still be best known for being a member of now defunct noise duo Yellow Swans, but he’s made plenty of solo music since then, even if it has been quite difficult to obtain. Straddling a line between free guitar noise I Don’t Rock At Alland singed electronics Challenger, Man With Potential shows that Swanson is unafraid to dive headfirst into the dank pulsing soundscapes that helped birth his old band.

Where Yellow Swans used pulses to underpin their cascading white noise, Swanson here puts the chattering 140bpm percussion at center stage, not least on the album’s opening track, charmingly titled Misery Beat. Setting the stage for the music to follow, we are thrown headfirst into chattering synthesized squeals and dense kick drums before being smacked around the head with the kind of slippery noise lead we’ve not heard since Going Places. This is Birmingham techno filtered through the mists of the Pacific Northwest, and is all the better for it. Elsewhere Remote View explores a more downtempo sound; coming across like post apocalyptic house music as heard from a club bathroom.

With Man With Potential Pete Swanson has crafted his most defining statement to date; a blistering collection of contemporary club music with a deafening noise twist. It might not be easy listening, but who said life had to be easy? http://typerecords.com/artists/pete-swanson

Drip House

Daren Ho, ex-Raccoo-oo-oon member, general shredder, presents his all digital solo project Driphouse. Textural ambient drone scape, with pulsing backdrops, synth layers, deep vocal swells - he recalls so many great moments of Kraut Electronic Cyborg Bliss but does it all in his own way. Trance vibrations for the digital age. Existing in seriously unique rythms that create a foundation for glitched out noise soloing.