One for fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, Leo Fincham (aka Worldpeace DMT) tests the limits of the brass band on his tongue-in-cheek debut, contrasting real instruments with tinny SEGA samples and grotesque screamo vocals.
Whatever you make of 'Brass Invaders', it's definitely out there on its own. Fincham's initial interest in brass came when he was performing with Hermann Nitsch, and noticed the dissonance as the drone orchestra stopped and a Viennese marching band cut through the silence. So he want home and began combing vintage SEGA soundtracks to secure some of the brass MIDI models that were used to sketch a suite of compositions. These ideas were eventually transcribed for live brass, but it's hard to tell; Fincham obscures the sounds with the bit-crushed MIDI blips and whines, whipping his cyborg orchestra into hyperactive tangle of slack-jawed fanfares, extreme metal and outsider pop.
After the brief SEGA-style intro 'Pink Zeppelin' (we can almost hear the Megadrive booting up), Fincham gets moving on 'Kindest DJ Alive', where a childlike voice repeats "your eyes, your mind, your lips, your bum, your tits, your smile" over oily, lopsided themes that descend into pensive euphoria. And on 'Kathy goes to Hawaii', Fincham joins forces with London's 300SkullsAndCounting to skewer worthy pop, screaming over brittle keyboard preset marching drums and 8-bit bleeps. 'Fake Flags for Fake Countries' is a bit more digestible, but the entire EP's all over in just over seven minutes, so hardly a serious outlay.
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One for fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, Leo Fincham (aka Worldpeace DMT) tests the limits of the brass band on his tongue-in-cheek debut, contrasting real instruments with tinny SEGA samples and grotesque screamo vocals.
Whatever you make of 'Brass Invaders', it's definitely out there on its own. Fincham's initial interest in brass came when he was performing with Hermann Nitsch, and noticed the dissonance as the drone orchestra stopped and a Viennese marching band cut through the silence. So he want home and began combing vintage SEGA soundtracks to secure some of the brass MIDI models that were used to sketch a suite of compositions. These ideas were eventually transcribed for live brass, but it's hard to tell; Fincham obscures the sounds with the bit-crushed MIDI blips and whines, whipping his cyborg orchestra into hyperactive tangle of slack-jawed fanfares, extreme metal and outsider pop.
After the brief SEGA-style intro 'Pink Zeppelin' (we can almost hear the Megadrive booting up), Fincham gets moving on 'Kindest DJ Alive', where a childlike voice repeats "your eyes, your mind, your lips, your bum, your tits, your smile" over oily, lopsided themes that descend into pensive euphoria. And on 'Kathy goes to Hawaii', Fincham joins forces with London's 300SkullsAndCounting to skewer worthy pop, screaming over brittle keyboard preset marching drums and 8-bit bleeps. 'Fake Flags for Fake Countries' is a bit more digestible, but the entire EP's all over in just over seven minutes, so hardly a serious outlay.
One for fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, Leo Fincham (aka Worldpeace DMT) tests the limits of the brass band on his tongue-in-cheek debut, contrasting real instruments with tinny SEGA samples and grotesque screamo vocals.
Whatever you make of 'Brass Invaders', it's definitely out there on its own. Fincham's initial interest in brass came when he was performing with Hermann Nitsch, and noticed the dissonance as the drone orchestra stopped and a Viennese marching band cut through the silence. So he want home and began combing vintage SEGA soundtracks to secure some of the brass MIDI models that were used to sketch a suite of compositions. These ideas were eventually transcribed for live brass, but it's hard to tell; Fincham obscures the sounds with the bit-crushed MIDI blips and whines, whipping his cyborg orchestra into hyperactive tangle of slack-jawed fanfares, extreme metal and outsider pop.
After the brief SEGA-style intro 'Pink Zeppelin' (we can almost hear the Megadrive booting up), Fincham gets moving on 'Kindest DJ Alive', where a childlike voice repeats "your eyes, your mind, your lips, your bum, your tits, your smile" over oily, lopsided themes that descend into pensive euphoria. And on 'Kathy goes to Hawaii', Fincham joins forces with London's 300SkullsAndCounting to skewer worthy pop, screaming over brittle keyboard preset marching drums and 8-bit bleeps. 'Fake Flags for Fake Countries' is a bit more digestible, but the entire EP's all over in just over seven minutes, so hardly a serious outlay.
One for fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, Leo Fincham (aka Worldpeace DMT) tests the limits of the brass band on his tongue-in-cheek debut, contrasting real instruments with tinny SEGA samples and grotesque screamo vocals.
Whatever you make of 'Brass Invaders', it's definitely out there on its own. Fincham's initial interest in brass came when he was performing with Hermann Nitsch, and noticed the dissonance as the drone orchestra stopped and a Viennese marching band cut through the silence. So he want home and began combing vintage SEGA soundtracks to secure some of the brass MIDI models that were used to sketch a suite of compositions. These ideas were eventually transcribed for live brass, but it's hard to tell; Fincham obscures the sounds with the bit-crushed MIDI blips and whines, whipping his cyborg orchestra into hyperactive tangle of slack-jawed fanfares, extreme metal and outsider pop.
After the brief SEGA-style intro 'Pink Zeppelin' (we can almost hear the Megadrive booting up), Fincham gets moving on 'Kindest DJ Alive', where a childlike voice repeats "your eyes, your mind, your lips, your bum, your tits, your smile" over oily, lopsided themes that descend into pensive euphoria. And on 'Kathy goes to Hawaii', Fincham joins forces with London's 300SkullsAndCounting to skewer worthy pop, screaming over brittle keyboard preset marching drums and 8-bit bleeps. 'Fake Flags for Fake Countries' is a bit more digestible, but the entire EP's all over in just over seven minutes, so hardly a serious outlay.