this honestly sounds like a child learning how to use an 808. how does this make it to a music review site? it should have been immediately rejected as garbage.
go find an 808. figure out how to turn it on. now, randomly push a few buttons. this is what it'll sound like.
that's ignoring the fact that the aesthetic was novel roughly '85 or '86.
but this is so weak that it doesn't even qualify as retro. nobody back then could get out of their basement if they sounded this bad. they would have been told to go practice some more and call back once they learned how to use their gear a little bit.
Sprankton DGrichey
Why don't cha lead me in the direction of some of that good music you listen to instead of bashing gesaffelstein I only listen to them because of Danny Brown.
deathtokoalas
i don't know who danny brown is.
this is closest to frontline assembly. if you want to take that to the next level, try skinny puppy. you could maybe go through cyberaktif on the way from fla to puppy - there's some logic to it. if you like the hip-hop/ebm combo, there's also meat beat manifesto and die warzau to check out. if you want to go further back in time, you want to go through (1) the acid genre (2) the wax trax! catalogue and (3) the mute records catalogue on your way back to cabaret voltaire, which is the ultimate starting point.
the term used back in the day to describe this was "ebm". not d, b. i couldn't sit here and honestly suggest you check out ebm if you're looking for interesting electronic music. the term means "electronic body music". it's meant to specifically refer to electro that is meant to dance to (as opposed to idm, which was meant to listen to). ebm was popular in industrial clubs in the 80s and 90s. it was not very different than this, minus differences in mastering technology.
you can also hear the influence of ketamine in this. maybe try massive attack (as a starting point - it's pretty different).
actually, scratch the massive attack, tricky is the better way in from this angle.
celeste AR
Deathtokoalas has a point, this sounds like something i would make in fruityloops when i was 14
dabdaldaunt
I think this artist took a lot from Clint Mansell's song Party. You will recognize it from the Requiem for a dream movie
deathtokoalas
i'm not sure i've seen that. maybe. would've been a long time ago.
i've always had difficulty getting into pwei, it's sort of too poppy and not poppy enough at the same time. but, you're definitely hinting at one of the more influential acts in the genre of the period.
