- Alternative dance
- Electronic music
- Tech-electro
Comment: it is
said on the site of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot that Clayton
Brooks aka EE7A was introduced to the eurorack format of modular
synthesis and since then he has preferred recording just in one take
rather than just clicking and sticking sonic blocks together on his
computer. By keeping listening to it already three times in a row I
shall have to assume Clayton Brooks succeeded in his recording
politics.
Tracers EP is highly ecstatic, even a bit hysterical
based on the lame shaped, heavily stomping bass drumming being
embellished with faint electro developments, and rusty 8-bit sonic
effects. At times the intensity gets a bit attenuated and the pace
will be changed into a more monotonous, even a bit hypnotic one. Then
I can draw parallels upon the Detroit scene of electro and techno.
For me, it embodies the life of an ordinary person within the
overwhelming capitalistic machinery. All those doings from one day to
another being repeated again and again wherein one can feel pleasure
and pain intermittently or simultaneously. It reflects upon the
relation between the human being and a machine where exhaustion in
one's eyes is mixed up with some hope and look at a next day.
However, by creating music, especially by those persons who have
built their own studios and create music on their own terms, it is a
huge step outside that a bit harrowing system. So one can accelerate the process, be outside the capitalistic system at her/his own disposal. But no one should not
forget another truth and be wrongheaded – the communism as a regime
is something which cannot be tolerated at all. Otherwise one can see
a field of corpses having traversed the countries like it happened in
China, the Soviet Union, and Kampuchea during the previous century.
There is no need for useful idiots anymore. If someone wishes to
behave in that way I guess the North Korea is waiting for you to
build up a bright future.
