This is about beats, whether they are on glasses, or rolled marbles, tearing tape, it’s all about fast-flicker spunky beats. On “Toy DJ Playset” it may be the first citing of micro-beatboxing, revisiting the craze for jungle. You even have Prez George Dubya as a cut-up, talking head to a righteous striptease beat on “Speech,” how fitting! This is Decomposure mimicking Paul Hardcastle’s “19” and follows on the heels of political rhetoric remixed by The Fire This Time and countless others. Though Taking Things Apart is a very experimental disc, this creative musician known as Caleb Mueller has a unique sound worth visiting. The titles are actually the sound sources used to record the tracks like the chamber of “Headphones,” the recycled words of “Scrabble” and “Cassette Player (Acidic Mix)” with its FFWD button toyed with beyond its plastic abilities. In the end we are left with “Interview/60hz” which may be parts of a college radio broadcast discussing the music, the voices are distorted and hinted at through a climbing set of frigid metal beats. If you stick around after the final track, a child’s choir with blocky percussion drifts in and out. Cheeky enough for these ears.
Taking Things Apart is OUT NOW on Unschooled Records.
Note: Decomposure was also featured on Unschooled Records’ Enter Compilation with the track “Matches.”
