The Shock Of The New EP - Power From The Skies (No Static/Automatic)

 

Title: The Shock Of The New EP

Artist: Power From The Skies

Label: No Static/Automatic

Cat Number: NSA003.1

Genre: Techno/Industrial Ambience/Hardcore

1: Doesn’t Follow Logic

2: Karaoke Calculator

3: Pylon Ground

4: Malton Is A Sexy Town

5: Doesn’t Follow Logic (Return Code Zero Remix)

This release is a departure from the electro I’m used to hearing on this label. There is a variance of tempos across the four original tracks with ‘Doesn’t Follow Logic’ consisting of a pervasive glookiness, breakbeats of various textures largely hardcore based, and what sounds like a cartoon horse. Tracks 2, 3 & 4 each play their respective parts in a fluctuant dislocation of the senses. Deploying cohesive rhythmic patterns which run up against beatless brick walls is a recurrent motif, as is an inventive use of acrid electronics and depth. The Return Code Zero Remix of ‘Doesn’t Follow Logic’ is the most fully formed piece of rhythmic disorder here, the other pieces feeling like they’ve been building up to it, but it still has a similar approach, and rounds off this very interesting release nicely.