Review: Hot on the heels of releases from Piska Power and Peder Mannerfelt, Pariah steps up with a fine three-tracker. The title track has a distinctive edge, with the Voam co-owner deploying a powerful sub-bass to underpin dubbed out drums, insistent bleeps, and chiming percussion. In contrast, "Frogspawn" centres on a heads-down drum track, with Pariah layering what sounds like an old-school house riff over it. It sounds like the kind of kinetic techno that his Karenn project with Blawan is known for. Changing tact again, Pariah ventures into electro territory, with breathy vocals unravelling over skipping 808s.
Review: For the fifth release on their label, Blawan and Pariah have enlisted the services of Paolo Di Nola, a multimedia artist who works under the Regina Leather alias. According to Di Nola, this project revolves around 'the tones and timbers generated during the break down of machinery'. This aesthetic is audible on "Tip" and "Comunicazione Uno", where glitchy rhythms, tonal blips and slivers of electronic melody are all brought together. "Comunicazione Due" is more streamlined, with Di Nola dropping a tight metallic rhythm that teems with jittery percussion, while on "Industrial Collapse", there's a more experimental approach at play, with bells ringing and glitchy percussion unravelling over a stop-start groove.
