In an age where bratty punks and insecure rappers sing about alienation and growing up in single parent families, its been a little disappointing that its been such a while since there has been some good horrible electronic music. Not horrible like DJ Sammy ‘Boys Of Summer’ or faux angst of The Prodigy, but proper dark gruesome music. Venetian Snares has done some promising work since his 1999 child killer-themed EP for Hymen called Doll Doll Doll but most has lacked the creepy horror of that seminal EP. But in a very prolific 18 months which has seen the release of at least 4 albums), he has finally brought out two new records that fulfil the promise of Doll Doll Doll. One is the sequel to Doll Doll Doll, another EP dedicated to child murderers and our society’s obsession with the ‘murder of innocents’. Find Candace, again on the Hymen label, features a child’s body in a plastic bag on the cover and brings with it a real aural brutality. Splattercore breakbeats pummel away emerging suddenly from eerie ambient interludes like a mugger with a baseball bat leaping out with ten of his mates, or, a snatch and grab outside a kindergarten . . . random senseless violence.
Sebastian Chan |
