From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Sat, Oct 25th 1997, 20:58
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Sat, Oct 25th 1997, 20:58
At 02:42 AM 10/25/97 -0400, you wrote: >okay. someone tell me labels/names to check out. i want some evil, dark, >nasty, brutal drum n' bass. not squarepusher/aphex stuff (good but not EVIL >enough) and certainly not atari teenage riot/DHR stuff (weak). > >i want murderous, dark brutal scary shit. > >EEEEEEVIL. Having gone on a quest for this time of thing, I hope I can bring a few helpful recommendations to the table: First, don't be so fast to dismiss Alec Empire. His stuff on Mille Plateux (I'm thinking specifically The Destroyer and the track The Peak) is fucking out there; the peak is one of the most brutally offcenter things I've heard. Ever. Like Merzbow with beats (not noise with beats underneath, but picture the Merzbow aesthetic employed with a drum machine). Then there is the mother of all dark/evil drum and bass songs, Godflesh's Almost Heaven (Helldub). Puts even Panacea (another one to check out most definitely) to shame. Let me put it this way: the moment I heard this track was the moment I stopped going out of my way to find dark drum and bass. It's the absolute perfection of the form. It's on Love and Hate in Dub, along with a lot of other Godflesh songs remixed in various ways. All good, but then again Justin Broadrick is one of my favorite people. The Sidewinder ain't so much Drum and bass, but it's pretty brutal and wicked. Downpour - Windstorms Broken Microphones is an excellent domestic (yay!) 12" on Drop Beat. Noisy as fuck, very Panaceaesque and almost as good. In fact, it's noisier than Panacea, but somehow not as fucked up and evil. Thinking, thinking... The PCM mix of Scorn is excellent, but not what you're looking for (not brutal enough)... Oh, another single track: The "unreleased" skinny puppy song Melt that they put on the Paradigm Shift compilation of Subconscious acts (all download related acts, it seems) is a fucking beast. It only gets going in high gear for around 20 seconds, but it's a glorious 20 seconds. Plus if you like just generally noisy and genuinely experimental percussion oriented stuff like Download you'll be happy with the rest of the compilation... There ain't much out there, but between Panacea and Godflesh, what else does one need? --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto