Skism – Skism EP (2005)
- IDM
- Experimental electronica
- Alternative
- Nu jazz
- Avant-electronica
- Glitch-hop
- Crossover
- Experimental hip-hop
Comment:
this set of 10 tracks is the only work by David Grogan aka Skism who
at once had lost all of his tracks while his PC crashed. Fortunately
some of them could have been rescued from the digital pit. This must
have been an extremely pitiful incident because the aesthetics
unfolding in front of our ears is something truly consistent and
bewildering. While listening to it for first times you get
information about the album of being very technical and at times
massive and even provocative or nihilistic by its nature (jungle-y
Shell (Swift Mix)). The more you get
immersed in that the more layers will be opened up around you. For
me, the issue is a good example or fact to prove the hypothesis that
glitch-hop was remarkably influenced by IDM (intelligent dance music)
being very prominent throughout the 90s and in the first half of the
00s. Indeed, it is an exuberant lab where David Grogan creates
something ahead of its time because in 2005 there was not glitch-hop
presented in the underground scene (I guess he was one of the first
mavericks within it). There are also up a couple of visions of (nu)
jazz music by him, one of them, Stodj is a favourite track on
the outing due to cinematic progressions and a lush, sunshiny
panorama revolving around the merry axis of rhythms. In truth, the
issue does not involve any weak tracks at all. In a word, the album
must be considered a classic one and David Grogan is genius. The
issue is a part of the discography of 12rec. .
