The Fucked Up Beat – Researches Ghostwaves and the Midnight Mysteries of Rhode Island (2016)
- Avant-garde
- Sampledelic
- Plunderphonics
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
- Breaks
- Latin music
- Electronic music
- Hauntology
- Mood music
- Trip-hop
- Downtempo
- Psychedelic
Comment:
it is always great pleasure to meet with Brett Zehner and Eddie
Palmer's new works and it is permitted at least twice a year.
Musically their task has been to reflect upon some conspiracy
theories mostly related to extraterrestrial beings and unknown flying
objects. And aesthetically it could be described – always different
always the same. Mammoth (a 48-minute monolith), one of the
duo's albums released in 2016 was named very "indifferently"
in comparison to the New York-based duo's previous works and also
musically it involved new tendencies and patterns additionally to the
already known ones (haunting cadences, buried speech transmissions,
Latin music coloured timbres in an old-fashioned way, intriguing
sample snippets). More profoundly, low and austere bass rhythms used
to move on in an unstable yet elegant way therefore showcasing more
experimental and minimal approach in comparison to their previous
works. The recent 10-track outing seems to run more in a previous
vein because of consisting of the samples of desperate accusations
due to the government of hiding an information, for instance. These
fabulous speech samples are accompanied by sharply soul-scratching,
highly longing Latin oldies and loosely throbbing rhythms, and
gleaming electronic ghosts. Additionally, one can hear tanpura
drones, brass outbursts and manually played drums. The soundscape of
the issue is highly dynamic, ghastly volatile and at the same time
providing many parallel lines and notches. There are even represented
some moments which come quite nearby to danceable music (at The
Rouge Terror of Narragansett Bay/ Parks At Night Are Always
Dangerous). Indeed, the song titles of the project deserve to be
focused on additionally. In a word, I could not resist to the appeal
of The Fucked Up Beat. Why should I do it at all? Let's go tripping
back to the past because the right answer is this release is time
machine. Every wave is new until it breaks even if it has been
ancient and dust-eaten before (paraphrasing Neil Young – Rap id
Tran sit). Similarly to Mammoth it is an excellent issue from
the year of 2016. The more you listen to it the more you are getting
lost within, the more you are getting out of here. By the way,
recently they issued a brand new one, called Records Vanishing
Crop Circles and Occult Rituals in the Future Age of Paranoia.
