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Raw,
cut-up, junk and harsh noise. That is what comes to mind when I think of
Developer, one of the many projects from Matthew Reis, who also runs the
interesting Factotum label. Today I will be reviewing his selftitled EP that
came out on Brise-Cul Records.
The
record starts with some extreme, junk metal abuse, scorching modular synths and
silent intermezzo’s of field recordings (birds, ..) and ends in a dark atmosphere
of drones and slow hitting on metal objects. Further on, the sound gets more loop
orientated with percussive, harsh angled and other weird noises. Some
tracks seemed to be originally existing out of recorded drum samples, but are now
totally annihilated and almost unrecognizable. Again field recordings come in,
this time crickets and a pet shop? These field recordings also seem to be the
red wire, running through this record. More aggressive sound manipulation
follows, with back and forward tape rewinding, stretched and ripped with
effects. It’s a fine but chaotic mixture of raw, oscillating synth sounds and
physical objects, colliding with each other and injected with speed.
The overall
sound and mood leaves me somewhat indifferent, but it has this fast running and
uncompromising sound as well. It somehow took me back to my childhood, watching
cartoons on TV, which had the same effect on me like this record; very amusing
but passing by like train without even knowing it. So this can perhaps be
listened in a undesired state of mind with no particular destination or goal,
like a short memory of the past.
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