Draveng - Untitled

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  • When Warsaw's Jacek Plewicki described his Brutaż parties as seeking "binary oppositions of emotions [and] sounds," he might have been talking about the first two releases on his label. The first, Jules Venturini's No Reference, was a lo-fi house record with a wistful edge. Its follow up is anything but wistful. Draveng made an obnoxiously strange techno EP for Allergy Season back in 2014; this is by some measure more strange and more obnoxious. The title "Lords Of Mire" just about sums it up: this is techno for swamp creatures, dense, psychedelic and smothered in FX ooze. That track is actually one of the lighter ones, thanks to the churchy chords that struggle to be heard in the hellish churn. Elsewhere, we're deprived of even this glimpse of light. The opening and closing tracks are bleak atmospheric pieces, their synths keening like strange animals. "Hang Eleven" and "Xeroxer" are raging monsters, Berghain-applicable but for the fetid gunk dripping off their lean rhythmic frames. The latter is particularly chaotic, with synths that burble, bleep and shriek erratically, beset by storms of reverb and rhythmic noise. It all disintegrates into a vocodered mulch at the end, which clarifies into a voice saying, "Well that was dirty."
  • Tracklist
      A1 Caterwauler A2 Xeroxer B1 Hang Eleven B2 Lords Of Mire B3 Sentiments & Sane
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