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LP version. Skiz Fernando aka Spectre tha Ill Saint ranks as an OG in the world of abstract beats. Forged in the fires of frustration over the corporate music industry, alter ego Spectre was an antidote to the commercial bullshit -- a ghost rising from a rotting corpse, holding up a mirror to our diseased and disaffected society. Through his WordSound imprint, Fernando has worked tirelessly to document some of the greats of the underground scene. Simultaneously he has become a master in his own right, constantly upping the ante on experimentation and innovation. For the 2016 20th anniversary of his 1996 entry to the game, he presents The Last Shall Be First, another cutting-edge amalgam of styles, flavors, and influences with a spiritual heft to match.
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On Small But Hard Recordings, Dead Fader presents Scorched, an extension of his previous work in the realms of sonic extremity. Dead Fader is recognized for Cohen's use of heavy distortion, melding noise with infectious dancefloor sensibility. With Scorched, this world collapses in on itself. Stripped-back textures expose raw extremity and breadth. Dead Fader has appeared alongside Flying Lotus, The Bug, Seefeel, Venetian Snares, and Clark. Recent festival appearances include Supersonic, Roskilde, Elevate, Norberg, and Sonic Acts. "Scorched is like being driven over wasteland in the boot of a car." --Mark Clifford (Seefeel)
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Master of deconstruction and reappropriation, Walter Gross takes a no-rules approach to freak-noise experimentation. His relentless output led to an inevitable collision with Small But Hard Recordings, and prompted his most epic work to date, Rotorcraft. The record refracts the grit of Baltimore's psych scene through the grotty underbelly of L.A., where Gross works isolated in a claustrophobic sound lab tucked under the freeway. The record sets hip-hop destruction against demented grunge vocals in a furious and affronting mosaic of work that is systematically re-constructed, broken down and reassembled. Rotorcraft should not make sense, but somehow Gross has tapped into the vein of some other realm. With no need for ceremony, he peels back a pair of grotty curtains to reveal glimpses of the divine and the unholy. Live, Walter Gross is as raw and uncompromising as his records. Armed with a pair of MPCs and a microphone, he envelops his audiences in a tripped-out journey through the bleak and the barren. Gross has appeared across Europe and the U.S., with collaborators including K-the-I???, Skrapez (Tenshun & Psychopop), Pedestrian (Anticon) and Sole (Anticon co-founder, Fake Four Inc).
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