- Tyson Ballard seems like a jokester. From the tone of his artist bio, to the design style of his Voyeurhythm label, to his one-off aliases like Linda Lovelace, the Berlin-based Australian knows how to have fun, or at least not take himself seriously. His latest project, the manga-inspired Tight Pants, brings that attitude in force on Hara Kiri For Fun, a two-tracker that exudes the sense of someone having a lark and loving it.
Even the beatless B-side, "Nature To Nearby Soon," is somehow playful, with its kosmische-inspired synth tapestries. (That insistent new age flute seems to wink at you every time it flutters over the patient arpeggiations.) And there's certainly a wry humor to how Ballard backs a robust acid track called "I'm So Happy I Could Kill Myself" with some meditative tonal ambience. That said, "Nature To Nearby Soon" is a transportive nine minutes, just as the A-side is a funky, no-frills club romp. Neither one was meant to blow your hair back (at 114 BPM, "Happy" seems best used to stoke a dance floor's early flame), but they'll sure as hell put a smile on your face.
TracklistA I'm So Happy I Could Kill Myself
B Nature To Nearby Soon