Some time ago Deepsrof [website] opened the Play Festival at KC België (*) [review] and in my review of that event I gave their mix of improv-like distorted guitarnoise, heavy drumming and electronics good praise. Their Electric Madness-CDr proves that my conclusion after their set wasn’t wrong: this young duo sure has potential.
In all Electric Madness lasts some 57 minutes and contains 3 tracks. The opening track, Interdimension Harmony, lasts some 17 minutes and starts the minimal way: modulated frequencies, carried by a distant but clearly present drone, gradually growing in force, and into a freestyle encounter of FM-sounds. The sky is full of frequencies!
Track 2, Mr. F. Uture, lasts even longer: some 29 minutes – most probably the result of one long recording session. The track’s opening minutes are all electronic, bit in line with the opening track, feat. modulated noise, a good deal of electronic hiss and a delay pedal that isn’t spared, starting off in the same calm way as the previous track that leaves plenty of breathing space, reminds me a bit of those old school tape-experiments from the sixties: sci-fi noise a galore, complete with flying saucers, creepy aliens, and as the track progresses more and more bass attacks and a guitar that’s slowly taking in a more prominent place in the whole of things (it has been there all the time, only not that well recognisable), and before you know it what at first was an all-electronic track has turned into a psychadelic freestyle multiple-solo-mayhem – kinda Kites meets the Butthole Surfers. Down-tempo experimental trash is how Deesprof describe their music on their mySpace, so after said freestyle intermezzo the tempo is firmly pushed down by a slooow and dictating riff. A well varied trip to where no man has gone before.
Track 3, March of the future army, with its 10 minutes the shortest on the CDr, is a bit of a surprise – especially if you haven’t seen them live – the track opens like a Black Sabbath-song, and after a couple of seconds a well-measured drum sets in: down-tempo, strict and repetitive with a couple of nice breaks ‘n turns. In this track too Deepsrof uses a good deal of well-aimed electronics, but it’s not taking in such a prominent place as in the previous two tracks – somewhere in the middle a pitch-shifted, smuttered ‘n vocoded, voice sets in – “666″ – Excellent!
Released on Di Turi Records [website] (as dtr002). Get yourself a copy before they’re all gone.
* Other bands playing were Hivemind, Carlo Giffoni and Astral Social Club
