Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
HOAX
Boomkat Product Review:
Emerging from the wreckage of 'STROBE.RIP', 'HOAX' is a playful two-disc epic that balances a suite of maximalist, tongue-in-cheek club-pop deconstructions with its creative opposite - a complete set of inverted, whisper-quiet memories powered by Freeka Tet's "Active noise cancelling script".
It's "not an album and remix released together" the 'HOAX' press release assures us, but "a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records." Okay then, but who's to know whether that's fact or fiction - the title already makes us wonder. The construction is intriguing though; there's nothing quite as abrasive as the first disc, a suitably carnivalesque blare of pitch-wonked pop hooks, pneumatic beats and canny asides. Amnesia Scanner's four proper collaborations with French-born digital artist Freeka Tet are the album's most unhinged, chaotic tracks. Opener 'ASFT Ruff' is a bizarre fusion of death metal grunts and hyperpop chirps that clears out from deranged hip-hop into jerky sound art and then re-establishes itself as wispy, melodic ambience. And 'ASFT Tazzie' is even more toploaded, with a drilling, distorted 200+ bpm kick that's nowhere near as jarring as the toy-squeak vocal. Even the relatively soulful 'ASFT ISSOK' - a slowed down, sensual groover - is caked in a layer of digital grit that sets it apart from the rest of the tracks.
AS's own tracks are just as eccentric, if a little less disordered. 'AS Neverend' is a reggaeton-inspired radio-scrub of bendable hooks and Shakira-lite synths, and 'AS Amygdala' sounds like Imogen Heap deconstructing 2-step and Eurodance simultaneously, and 'AS Disco' curves hardstyle into screamo. On its own, the album would be an endearing enough counterpart to 'STROBE.RIP' - if you enjoyed that album's cultural horticulture, you'll enjoy this. But with Freeka Tet's reduced, reused and recycled versions it takes on a life of its own. The saccharine blast of the original tracks is dampened completely, with only sand and ashes - ghostly traces of the original rhythms and melodies - left. It comes off like a lost album from the glory days of Raster Noton, a glitch-addled, digitally mangled invisible ink drawing of its predecessor.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Emerging from the wreckage of 'STROBE.RIP', 'HOAX' is a playful two-disc epic that balances a suite of maximalist, tongue-in-cheek club-pop deconstructions with its creative opposite - a complete set of inverted, whisper-quiet memories powered by Freeka Tet's "Active noise cancelling script".
It's "not an album and remix released together" the 'HOAX' press release assures us, but "a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records." Okay then, but who's to know whether that's fact or fiction - the title already makes us wonder. The construction is intriguing though; there's nothing quite as abrasive as the first disc, a suitably carnivalesque blare of pitch-wonked pop hooks, pneumatic beats and canny asides. Amnesia Scanner's four proper collaborations with French-born digital artist Freeka Tet are the album's most unhinged, chaotic tracks. Opener 'ASFT Ruff' is a bizarre fusion of death metal grunts and hyperpop chirps that clears out from deranged hip-hop into jerky sound art and then re-establishes itself as wispy, melodic ambience. And 'ASFT Tazzie' is even more toploaded, with a drilling, distorted 200+ bpm kick that's nowhere near as jarring as the toy-squeak vocal. Even the relatively soulful 'ASFT ISSOK' - a slowed down, sensual groover - is caked in a layer of digital grit that sets it apart from the rest of the tracks.
AS's own tracks are just as eccentric, if a little less disordered. 'AS Neverend' is a reggaeton-inspired radio-scrub of bendable hooks and Shakira-lite synths, and 'AS Amygdala' sounds like Imogen Heap deconstructing 2-step and Eurodance simultaneously, and 'AS Disco' curves hardstyle into screamo. On its own, the album would be an endearing enough counterpart to 'STROBE.RIP' - if you enjoyed that album's cultural horticulture, you'll enjoy this. But with Freeka Tet's reduced, reused and recycled versions it takes on a life of its own. The saccharine blast of the original tracks is dampened completely, with only sand and ashes - ghostly traces of the original rhythms and melodies - left. It comes off like a lost album from the glory days of Raster Noton, a glitch-addled, digitally mangled invisible ink drawing of its predecessor.
Boomkat Product Review:
Emerging from the wreckage of 'STROBE.RIP', 'HOAX' is a playful two-disc epic that balances a suite of maximalist, tongue-in-cheek club-pop deconstructions with its creative opposite - a complete set of inverted, whisper-quiet memories powered by Freeka Tet's "Active noise cancelling script".
It's "not an album and remix released together" the 'HOAX' press release assures us, but "a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records." Okay then, but who's to know whether that's fact or fiction - the title already makes us wonder. The construction is intriguing though; there's nothing quite as abrasive as the first disc, a suitably carnivalesque blare of pitch-wonked pop hooks, pneumatic beats and canny asides. Amnesia Scanner's four proper collaborations with French-born digital artist Freeka Tet are the album's most unhinged, chaotic tracks. Opener 'ASFT Ruff' is a bizarre fusion of death metal grunts and hyperpop chirps that clears out from deranged hip-hop into jerky sound art and then re-establishes itself as wispy, melodic ambience. And 'ASFT Tazzie' is even more toploaded, with a drilling, distorted 200+ bpm kick that's nowhere near as jarring as the toy-squeak vocal. Even the relatively soulful 'ASFT ISSOK' - a slowed down, sensual groover - is caked in a layer of digital grit that sets it apart from the rest of the tracks.
AS's own tracks are just as eccentric, if a little less disordered. 'AS Neverend' is a reggaeton-inspired radio-scrub of bendable hooks and Shakira-lite synths, and 'AS Amygdala' sounds like Imogen Heap deconstructing 2-step and Eurodance simultaneously, and 'AS Disco' curves hardstyle into screamo. On its own, the album would be an endearing enough counterpart to 'STROBE.RIP' - if you enjoyed that album's cultural horticulture, you'll enjoy this. But with Freeka Tet's reduced, reused and recycled versions it takes on a life of its own. The saccharine blast of the original tracks is dampened completely, with only sand and ashes - ghostly traces of the original rhythms and melodies - left. It comes off like a lost album from the glory days of Raster Noton, a glitch-addled, digitally mangled invisible ink drawing of its predecessor.
Boomkat Product Review:
Emerging from the wreckage of 'STROBE.RIP', 'HOAX' is a playful two-disc epic that balances a suite of maximalist, tongue-in-cheek club-pop deconstructions with its creative opposite - a complete set of inverted, whisper-quiet memories powered by Freeka Tet's "Active noise cancelling script".
It's "not an album and remix released together" the 'HOAX' press release assures us, but "a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records." Okay then, but who's to know whether that's fact or fiction - the title already makes us wonder. The construction is intriguing though; there's nothing quite as abrasive as the first disc, a suitably carnivalesque blare of pitch-wonked pop hooks, pneumatic beats and canny asides. Amnesia Scanner's four proper collaborations with French-born digital artist Freeka Tet are the album's most unhinged, chaotic tracks. Opener 'ASFT Ruff' is a bizarre fusion of death metal grunts and hyperpop chirps that clears out from deranged hip-hop into jerky sound art and then re-establishes itself as wispy, melodic ambience. And 'ASFT Tazzie' is even more toploaded, with a drilling, distorted 200+ bpm kick that's nowhere near as jarring as the toy-squeak vocal. Even the relatively soulful 'ASFT ISSOK' - a slowed down, sensual groover - is caked in a layer of digital grit that sets it apart from the rest of the tracks.
AS's own tracks are just as eccentric, if a little less disordered. 'AS Neverend' is a reggaeton-inspired radio-scrub of bendable hooks and Shakira-lite synths, and 'AS Amygdala' sounds like Imogen Heap deconstructing 2-step and Eurodance simultaneously, and 'AS Disco' curves hardstyle into screamo. On its own, the album would be an endearing enough counterpart to 'STROBE.RIP' - if you enjoyed that album's cultural horticulture, you'll enjoy this. But with Freeka Tet's reduced, reused and recycled versions it takes on a life of its own. The saccharine blast of the original tracks is dampened completely, with only sand and ashes - ghostly traces of the original rhythms and melodies - left. It comes off like a lost album from the glory days of Raster Noton, a glitch-addled, digitally mangled invisible ink drawing of its predecessor.
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