Tim Koch and Adrien Capozzi, operating as Dolphins of Venice, twist Captains of Industry into a sly, sharp-edged Mahorka release where abstract funk, fractured IDM, and corporate satire collide in restless motion and meticulous disarray.
Boardroom beats, protocol broken
Tim Koch alongside Adrien Capozzi unite once again under Dolphins of Venice, steering Captains of Industry on Mahorka into a sharp-edged zone where abstract funk collides with IDM mischief. Sound design needles business-class tropes while pushing a clear sonic directive, opening with the elastic swagger of “Businessmen” before sliding into “Serpential Salaryman,” whose fractured breaks, splintered phone tones, and half-heard chatter grind forward in restless motion.
Momentum spills into the title piece, a fragment that could have slipped unnoticed from a late-’90s Skam catalog (ie. Team Doyobi), brimming with skewed vocoder phrases and off-axis breakbeat bliss. Throughout, fractured electronics pulse with a Bola-meets-Gescom logic, architecture built from misaligned grids and sly rhythmic detours.
Across fifteen unruly cuts, genre boundaries dissolve. “Guldschmitt,” “Office Olympics,” plus warped blips and distortion of “Spreadsheets” elevate the record toward rare altitude, while closing sequences “Automated Executive,” “Lugs Kalimbo,” and “Polly Is Broken” maintain tension where imbalance becomes both engine and outcome. Result: a sharply disjointed statement of mechanical precision, skewering corporate ritual while quietly advancing a new tier of abstract IDM craft.
Captains of Industry is available on Mahorka. [Bandcamp]
