A cacophony of brisk and beaty beauties tethered and pulled apart to its absolute smallest gears, this one’s a solid, action-packed collection.
Juggling zippy rhythms like a sonic craftsman
The growth of electronic music has seen an ebb and flow and all manner of subgenres popping up from every corner of the globe. From broken breaks, bass, braindance and subterranean beats, Julian La Brooy (aka Hitori Tori) has been at it for several years, his back catalog stretching as far as 2005, and shows no signs of slowing down, quite literally.
As Offset Enumerate packs its spastic punch of slapstick drill’n bass jabs, juggling zippy rhythms like a sonic craftsman (ref. “Isolerate”), the whole package shifts from blistered melodic breaks (“Spinsaff” and “Sakv”) to disjointed cyborg moods as noted on “GRTS.” And yet these fractured speed bumps take a back seat on the closing piece “5887k” where emotively static charges come to life, clinging to distant dronescapes while floating through cirrus cloud structures. An audible jewel by which Hitori Tori is able to pin his sound on—after having doused hundreds of percussive jolts in a funky yet fissured landscape of organized noises—Offset Enumerate is a welcomed foray into the off-center electronic camp. A cacophony of brisk and beaty beauties tethered and pulled apart to its absolute smallest gears, this one’s a solid, action-packed collection.
Offset Enumerate is available on Evel. [Bandcamp]
