Friday, January 23, 2004

Interference - Orphx/The Infant Cycle

Interference is a 4 track EP from the Hands label, coming in one of those interwoven, folded card sleeves, that all their recent EPs have employed. The tracks are presented by the two Canadian bands Orphx and The Infant Cycle - each providing an original track of their own, followed by a remix of the original by the other band.

Orphx provide the track Saturation, a buzzing of electrics, bass heavy and filled with a solid, sparking beat work. Stray voices and tuning radio signals add to the crackling density that is the result. A result which has something particularly typical of Orphx in the rhythm, increasingly abrasive past the 7 minute mark. Wrong Speed has a sparser feel, clank of loose, metal percussion offered up by The Infant Cycle. Long wavering notes forming a sequence that glues the plodding beats together, the beats a constant, repetitive action. While the notes become more sonorous, pronounced, with progression.

The remix of Saturation starts in a more subdued fashion, low, with the buzz, a wave form that allows for a rising impression. The beats remain a background space of electronics. Past 4 minutes there is a kind of micro influenced rattle, which indicates the first real percussion and acts as a trigger to an increased sensation, before stripping down. There are impressions of spectral voices, squalling at some background level in the beginnings of Wrong Speed remixed. Again this is a more subdued version, making more emphasis of the atmospheres within the track than the upfront rhythms present in the original. Though the beats are allowed to come in eventually, thick with a hint of reverb and grit, to contrast the wave forms.

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