Container - Creamer

  • A perfect introduction to Ren Schofield's deranged dance floor style.
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  • When Ren Schofield's Container project entered the dance music consciousness in 2011, he summed up all that was great about the American DIY noise community's dalliance with techno. A decade later, he's released Drone, an EP that's a perfect introduction for the uninitiated to his joyfully deranged style, and proof of its staying power. Schofield's stated intent was to make Drone "way more 'rock' oriented than 'techno,' almost as if it could be a band." But no band has ever sounded quite like this. Like all classic Container, Drone works by blurring the edges between sonic ultra-violence and slapstick humour. Odd metres turn would-be grooves into an endlessly reiterated stumbling block. Chaotic feedback flies through a psychotic range of moods, from bloodlust shriek to childlike whine. The drum machines punch like an elder sibling enforcing four rounds of "Stop hitting yourself." The constantly resetting upward pitch envelopes of "Sniffers"—a Container signature—are at once pure comedy and ribald energy. If it weren't for the grin offsetting the mania, this would be claustrophobic music in the extreme. But then again, it wouldn't be Container either.
  • Tracklist
      01. Creamer 02. Rippler 03. Shingles 04. Sniffers
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