cdatakill
"Valentine" CD
Ad Noiseam Records
Genre: electronica, breakcore
February 2007 |
YES. denver-based breakcore/hardcore
techno/electronic act cdatakill has long been a name i've seen
around the underground techno scene but valentine finally gives
me a chance to see what all the fuss is about. and what do you know?
it's completely warranted. valentine is a wonderful,
consistently engaging journey that weaves the dark and mechanical with
a lulling warmth and humanity. this can best be sampled on a track
like "you are mine," which juxtaposes a depraved metallic quality
against tribal beats and chants. or perhaps we should look at the
industrialized billie holiday "cover," "yesterdays," and its
noisy, plodding rhythm. on the more electronic end of matters, we get
gushing infomercial jam "hungry" and haunting donnie darko-reminiscent
"mingi." to name a few. valentine is a powerful work of new
electronic music - this sort of sound seems to be a major direction of
techno/idm these days, and cdatakill has come up with quite a
fine sample on his new disc.
83%
youuuuutube!:
cdatakill live
coxwell balaban
[Vitals: 11 tracks,
41:14,
distributed by
the label,
released 2006] |