Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
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Free Music Notes for Detrimentalist
Free Music Review: Headphone Commute Review
Hit: 5 Stars
We can always count on Aaron Funk to punish us at least once a year. If you're not familiar with Venetian Snares, it's time for you to open up that hole and crawl out. Seriously. Winnipeg (Canada) based Funk is a prolific champion of the edgiest of genres - from modern-classical orchestral arrangements violated with breakcore to noisy IDM sprinkled with clicks and cuts. Among the collection of labels, he has managed to span some of my favorites - Zod, Distort, Sublight, Hymen and of course, Planet Mu. Detrimentalist is Funk's twentieth (!!!) album, in which he steps away from classical themes sampled and revisited in My Downfall (Planet Mu, 2007), and brings back the early drum'n'bass loops only the way Venetian Snares can. Planet Mu describes the release as "Venetian Snares' 332nd official studio album of disgusting ejacutronic rave horn." After a couple of rotations the intelligent design behind complex time signatures stands out from the imitators' attempts at making [whatever]-core simply for the sake of it. The first two tracks, Gentleman and Koonut-Kaliffee set the tone for the entire album, and the grind never stops. The cover art is sprinkled with an array of neon green aliens, robots, skulls, wingdings, guns, cassettes, and other demented and detrimental paraphernalia. And ducks. My favorite track is Eurocore MVP with ragga vocal samples, Funk's staple bass rips, drilling Amen breaks and an obligatory snare rush. This is breakcore at its finest. Keep it coming, Funk... We're listening... For similar styles, check out Bong-Ra, End.user, and my new favorite, Igorrr.Free Music Review: Magnificent return to form
Hit: 5 Stars
A return to form for not only VS but for the genre. If you like your drum-n-bass extra-fast, nasty, glitchy, laugh-out-loud astonishing and practically un-danceable (meaning, if you liked 2004's "Infolepsy") this is your record.
Intact are the trademark touches: the video game blips, the movie/TV clips, the crunchy bass stalking, the insane drum juggling, the pitch-bending neck-snappers...all of the things that, when you hear them, you know exactly who's destroying their gear.
If the last couple of records made you wonder if he was turning an art corner, fear not: VS brings the heat you know him for here.
Free Music Review: AWSOME
Hit: 5 Stars
I've always thought VS as this crazy genius...
And I am a total believer~!!!
This album was absolute genius~!! Through out the whole album I found myself just totally getting into the music.
If you like IDM, DnB, Breakcore, or any experimental electronic music, this is must have album.
Free Music Review: killah
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is super dope. A lot more fun than the recent classical stuff, this is some phat jungle styles. This hasn't left rotation since I got it actually and it's only getting better with each play. Recommended.Free Music Review: Modern jungle. Amen Break Core.
Hit: 4 Stars
I am not familiar with Snares however I stumbled across this record looking for some modern jungle and Amen break based music, and that is exactly what I found. If you dig Plug's 'Plug EP's 1, 2 & 3', Aphex Twin's Drukqs, Soundmurderer and some of Squarepusher's more frantic works you will definitely 'get' Detrimentalist. By 'get', I mean Detrimentalist is not an easy listen at first, but the more I listen to it the more I get it. The track Gentleman reminds me stylisticly of Plug's track 'Here It Comes'. Koonut-Kaliffee is the most 'accessible' track in my opinion. Bebikukorica Nigiri sounds like jungle on top of a Nintendo video game sound track. Very strange. Overall worthy of several listens. Great programming.