venetian snares - cubist reggae

A-1. Ever Apparent All Being Shoulder

A-2. Where You Stopped The Heaviest

B-1. The Identification Circles Levitate

B-2. You Discovered The Secret And Juiced It For All Its Majesty

On this EP Venetian Snares significantly breaks the mould with four tracks that he calls 'Cubist Reggae'. As a descriptor, it's apt, as these are basic loops and ideas taken from reggae but bent into strange angular sounds.

'Ever Apparent All Being Shoulder' cuts and chops an upbeat reggae rhythm into dramatic shapes, from which tentacled effects and melodies evolve, whilst all the time a sinister voice whispers dark intentions.

'Where You Stopped The Heaviest' brings downcast, shimmering orchestral chords over cavernous dub spaces, which are occasionally fractured with violent effects or sad melodies.

'The Identification Circles Levitate' starts by folding down a reggae melody into ever decreasing sharp shards, while a foggy melody builds over the top, the track then develops a burst of rave energy, before it closes down with the melody again.

'You Discovered The Secret And Juiced It For All It's Majesty' consumes the reggae and just leaves the cubes behind. Whats left of a loops are turned into rhythm, as drums are chopped up into neurotic dissonant patterns, dissolving into space before firing off at angles, as a seasick melody keeps the track centred.

Nice I like the samples. i've been getting into Vsnares recently.

Yeah new Snares and only four tracks... so he maybe spent more than 10 minutes on each

this sounds great!

It is great

sounds interesting

a lot more focused compared to his previous release

Wicked, I like his EPs. Horsey Noises was brilliant and this sounds rather great too.

Wow. I wasn't expecting much, but this is indeed great and sounds more focused and interesting than recent VS stuff. :-)

What happened to the Timesig sublabel?

hmm i don't like it

i think the stuff in the clips where the rhythms are relatively slow work extremely well. i think he's very good at doing this type of hybrid music, i also loved Sabbath dubs

  On 3/29/2011 at 9:39 PM, Ranky Redlof said:

hmm i don't like it

Me neither :(

The artwork is weird too, not what I expected from a reggae-themed VSnares ep

i like it, almost in the style of sky painted on car from the chocolate wheelchair album.

I'd like to here the full tracks though, they seem to be pretty slow and evolve into some interesting ideas, some of it is even similar to hccbu.

12" only?! bullcrap!

Look again.

Hmmmm...I don't know .

VSNARES is BACK!

Samples sound

  On 3/29/2011 at 9:41 PM, Awepittance said:

i also loved Sabbath dubs

same. really liking the 4th track.

the samples sound great. an interesting turn in the snares sound.

Digging this a lot

  On 3/30/2011 at 3:22 AM, Capsaicin said:

Samples sound

  On 3/30/2011 at 7:42 AM, baph said:

  On 3/30/2011 at 3:22 AM, Capsaicin said:

Samples sound

I likey. Something fresh sounding from snares (his last lp fell flat quickly to me)

woo sounds good : )