Review: Vanta Series is a sub-label from Berlin imprint KilleKill and for their third outing, they are putting out material by Ian McDonnell's EeOo project. The Irish producer is better known as Eomac and is one half of Lakker, so with those credentials, it doesn't come as a surprise that IS is a left of centre record. "Pearson Operator" boasts wired, deranged frequency shifts that sound at first like high-pitched human voices but later come across a swarm of bees in their death throes. This bizarre but brilliant sonic voyage plays out against the backdrop of a stomping, minimal rhythm. "Poe", like its namesake writer, is more ghoulish. Even though it features ghostly eerie bass tones, the glitchy, rickety rhythm makes it sound playful rather than threatening.
Review: Emerging as one of the most prolific producers currently operating on the fringes of techno, Lakker's Ian McDonnell adds the Unknown To The Unknown label to his prospering discography with this riotous slab under the rarely used EeOo alias. As Lakker, McDonnell and studio partner Dara Smith have been crafting various strands of music for the best part of a decade, but a more concerted focus on techno has seen the Dublin-based pair gain wider exposure thanks to releases on Killekill, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Blueprint and Candela Rising. McDonnell has separately been cultivating his own Eomac project over this period too, which has resulted in some excellent releases for Code Is Law, The Trilogy Tapes and Killekill. Ahead of a debut album for the latter label as Eomac, McDonnell's work as the amusingly framed EeOo seems perfectly suited to UTTU, taking influence from Zomby, Arovane, and Errorsmith. the EP runs the gauntlet between scrambled rave, wonky acid and seemingly eski-inspired melodies, and is possibly one of the wildest records UTTU have put out in their illustrious history.
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