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As
this self-titled album opens up with the cinematic sounds, vocal
samples and massive drums of “Desolate” I can only wish I was
better informed. But fuck it, I’ll do my best. But not without
first saying that I have never followed the underground
industrial music scenes from anywhere in the world. That whole
vibe has never really appealed to me. I claim to like organic
music too much to pay attention to soulless music. But as
unfounded as that statement is this German based label always
manages to spew albums that challenge my attitude towards
electronic and industrial music.
Maybe it is because many of
their acts manage to mix and balance organic guitars (for
instance) with beats and then layers of electronically generated
music. Or maybe it is that some of their most venturesome
artists are too good at making somethings out of noise-like
nothings but their albums always affect me. Maybe, the truth at
the end of the rainbow is... I may just have to change my
fucking attitude.
Detritus is the
baby of David Dando-Moore and Fractures is his third
album following Endregenous and Origin. What lays
in this recording is music based on hard beats that very often
run at mid tempo. What’s placed on top of that varies depending
on the song, but is very common to hear middle eastern melodies,
melancholic pianos, female and androgynous vocal samples. And
yes, here and there and thankfully never overplayed, a heavy
guitar.
Detritus drum and bass heavy past doesn’t take
precedence over anything here. Dando-Moore is obviously going
for heightened feeling and in order to achieve that he has to
pace himself. It is surprising when during “Detrimental” he
mixes opposites, fast bashing d&b drums with a cinematic
soundtrack-like veil of sound, or the simply upbeat tempo of
“Inside Blue Ice” constantly seems to be reaching a summit of
sound. The schizophrenic electricity of “Shifts” is good enough
to provoke some mind breaking mood swings. But in many places,
when Detritus controls himself and seems as fascinated with slow
majestic movements as in “Lethe” you kind of just wish David
Lynch was in the know and would hire this guy to write the
soundtrack for his next movie. |
