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simon silverdollar
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to me, shizuo is THE great unsung genius of modern electronic music.
he was a digital hardcore stalwart, starting out as atari teenage riot's soundman, but his music far surpassed the rest of the DHR output. it's a brutal, druggy, take on jungle and noise, but there's this weird gracefulness to it. and often, when people hear shizuo, they feel that somehow it's a very, um... sexy sound but no one's ever quite sure why.
shizuo goes so far beyond the immediately exciting, but often fairly puerile, DHR sound, and creates these hypnotic streams of noise and rhythm, with the same samples being returned to again and again [he always worked with the most meagre of ingredients], to be reconfigured in constantly shifting ways, building up the intensity. the best example of this is the limited release, 'fuckstep 98', which is kind of a meditation on about 15 samples, which gets really twisted and trippy, but retains a balance and order in all the chaos, like a breakcore version of villalobos' 'alcachofa'.
as far as i know, shizuo (aka david hammer) doesn't record anymore, but hopefully i'm wrong.
to me, he's easily up there with people like aphex. anyone else a fan?
he was a digital hardcore stalwart, starting out as atari teenage riot's soundman, but his music far surpassed the rest of the DHR output. it's a brutal, druggy, take on jungle and noise, but there's this weird gracefulness to it. and often, when people hear shizuo, they feel that somehow it's a very, um... sexy sound but no one's ever quite sure why.
shizuo goes so far beyond the immediately exciting, but often fairly puerile, DHR sound, and creates these hypnotic streams of noise and rhythm, with the same samples being returned to again and again [he always worked with the most meagre of ingredients], to be reconfigured in constantly shifting ways, building up the intensity. the best example of this is the limited release, 'fuckstep 98', which is kind of a meditation on about 15 samples, which gets really twisted and trippy, but retains a balance and order in all the chaos, like a breakcore version of villalobos' 'alcachofa'.
as far as i know, shizuo (aka david hammer) doesn't record anymore, but hopefully i'm wrong.
to me, he's easily up there with people like aphex. anyone else a fan?