Title: General Maintenance
Artist: Ben Pest
Label: No Static/Automatic
Cat Number: NSA004
Genre: Electro
A1: Direkt Slaps
A2: Greta Recognise
B1: General Maintenance
B2: 87 Game
Tonally electro, but with edges sharp enough to draw blood. That’s how I would generally describe the sound of Ben Pest on this release for Ara-U’s carefully evolving label. This is nowhere more apparent than on the onomatopaeic ‘Direkt Slaps’, which is the sound of breaking glass struggling to shed its machine funk skin. New and fascinating geometric forms are rendered in ‘Greta Recognise’, with pain-inflicting percussion reinforcing a rigid regime of aural submission. The beat is slightly off in parts of ‘General Maintenance’, dancing to which feels like it must have felt on the dance floor in ‘The Poseidon Adventure’. While ‘87 Game’ uses the space between the chaos to evoke electro paranoia.
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