Labels: ache records
Review by: Alan Read
This div / orce split 7″ series has been really cool so far, it’s a series of nine split 7″’s between an electronica artist and a band (usually noise), this is part 3. It’s a good idea and it does show how similar these two types of music are (and all leftfield music in theory). The Four Tet / Hella split was incredible, go buy it.
Anyhow this starts off with general Hrvatski cut up beat amazingness, but then the stupidity comes in with a bouncy casio, reggae demo tune but its cut up and processed to make it sound really good/fun. This then slowly morphs into some processed drone and crackles, then he drops the beat”¦…whoop disco party. This sounds a little like Venetian Snares but it’s good and original and doesn’t just rip off the whole breakcore thing like so many others have been doing recently.
The Sightings have a really dense distorted sound where everything mixes together to create a nice wall of fuzz, they remind me a bit of Hella for some reason but with the finished mix going through a couple of dirty, dirty distortion pedals and with vocals and a bass riff/drone on top.
This is a good split; if you like the others in the div series then you will like this also.