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Churl
Ghost in the Machine
Peeling the Layers
Between Two Worlds
Surgery of the Soul
Last Tribe (Endif v. Replogen)
Reactionary
The Answer
Naked Bloody and Hungry
Soft Power
Police State
Police State (Billy Club RMX by Pneumatic Detach)
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Carbon
Tympanik Audio
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
By: Vlad McNeally
By: Vlad McNeally
Eclectic and cybernetic, Carbon is a clever mix of powernoise, dark ambient, breakbeats, and whimsy.
Endif's Carbon is a hard disc to pinpoint as being a part of a single genre; partially due to collaborations and remix work for artists like Terrorfakt, this one-man project is often associated with the power noise end of the industrial genre. However, upon sampling their erratic array of breakbeats, chasms of dark ambiance, and mangled samples, Carbon more closely resembles a bastard hybrid of experimental noise, EBM, IDM, and chiptune quirkiness.
With a few whimsical twitters and an aloof foghorn bellow, "Churl" promptly breaks into a capering beat. Bass bounds half-deflated and loud to a cardboard snare pop, lending a merry lead-footed rhythm to zapping toy guns and an analog synth's hoot. Though caught up in pounding intermissions of sheet metal percussion, it's a rather cute beginning to this affair. Amidst electric zaps and crackling arpeggios, "Between Two Worlds" bounds through like a steampunk puppy, its drum machine bounces between bass and snare steam puffs to anthemic lead synth riff, while in the background a bass wave hums like a decrepit theremin. Though these bouts of erraticism are as lively as they are entertaining, Endif is also quite brilliant when it comes to weaving atmospherics. From chirping nightbirds and unintelligible mutter, a bass and static bump and hiss seep into "Reactionary," their pace methodical as if each movement is a foothold on shaky ground. However, it is the ambience that makes this track, its twittering cockatoos, foreboding bass murmurs, and elastic moth flutters unfolding like a spaceship crash in a nocturnal rainforest. Finally, Pneumatic Detach's Billy Club version of "Police State" modifies the original's dissonant tangle of bass earthquakes and high pitch chirps with a lingering synth wail, stuttering jackhammer beats, glitch-stuck snares, and bristled slow-motion comets.
Rhythmically, Carbon is hardly boring, yet doesn't fall into the snooty IDM rut of becoming so convoluted that it loses all pacing. Plus, there's the added bonus that Endif can illustrate a mood that can be just as disarming as piercing distortion. For anyone who is curious about a marriage between IDM and EBM, something that's part Aphex Twin, part Meat Beat Manifesto, and part Terrorfakt, it is well worth their while to give this disc a chance.
With a few whimsical twitters and an aloof foghorn bellow, "Churl" promptly breaks into a capering beat. Bass bounds half-deflated and loud to a cardboard snare pop, lending a merry lead-footed rhythm to zapping toy guns and an analog synth's hoot. Though caught up in pounding intermissions of sheet metal percussion, it's a rather cute beginning to this affair. Amidst electric zaps and crackling arpeggios, "Between Two Worlds" bounds through like a steampunk puppy, its drum machine bounces between bass and snare steam puffs to anthemic lead synth riff, while in the background a bass wave hums like a decrepit theremin. Though these bouts of erraticism are as lively as they are entertaining, Endif is also quite brilliant when it comes to weaving atmospherics. From chirping nightbirds and unintelligible mutter, a bass and static bump and hiss seep into "Reactionary," their pace methodical as if each movement is a foothold on shaky ground. However, it is the ambience that makes this track, its twittering cockatoos, foreboding bass murmurs, and elastic moth flutters unfolding like a spaceship crash in a nocturnal rainforest. Finally, Pneumatic Detach's Billy Club version of "Police State" modifies the original's dissonant tangle of bass earthquakes and high pitch chirps with a lingering synth wail, stuttering jackhammer beats, glitch-stuck snares, and bristled slow-motion comets.
Rhythmically, Carbon is hardly boring, yet doesn't fall into the snooty IDM rut of becoming so convoluted that it loses all pacing. Plus, there's the added bonus that Endif can illustrate a mood that can be just as disarming as piercing distortion. For anyone who is curious about a marriage between IDM and EBM, something that's part Aphex Twin, part Meat Beat Manifesto, and part Terrorfakt, it is well worth their while to give this disc a chance.
