APROX. : Bad Music EP
January 22nd, 2011, 20:45 | category: Releases | tags: APROX., Shop
SPEXI056 | Some Place Else 2011
Six delicious tunes of pure human chocolate, neither pop nor avantgarde but a species unto it’s own.
Tracklist:
01. Elbow Knock (From Avanto With Love Remix)
02. Tissues And Candles
03. Responsibility
04. Skincrawler (With Pedigree)
05. Elbow Knock
06. Darkest Days (with Roy and Emily Boswell)
Playing time 23 minutes.
3″CDr is limited to 200 copies. Price: only 5.00 EUR, free shipping worldwide!
Also available as download (WAV / MP3).
APROX. was founded by Finnish producer MR:HC back in 2002. Since then APROX. has been busy conquering clubs, venues and festivals all around Finland, as well as remixing a number of up’n'coming pop bands.
Bad Music EP contains six delicious tunes of pure human chocolate. The music ranges from minimal vocal electro to industrial, hiphop and IDM. It is neither pop nor avantgarde but a species unto it’s own. Cosmopolitan tunes for your every precious need!
Reviews
“Some wholesome stuff for misanthropist is coming from Finnish label Some Place Else, who decided to issue a collection of cheeky sketches of a mad sound tumbler, who’s going to delight both Tigerbeat-like stuff and psychotropic sonic stimulations close to 8-bit diggers’ soups with the habit of hooking that kind of musical jolts normally associated to notorious names such as the one of Venetian Snares. To be honest, Aprox, nome de plume of the young Finnish composer Julius Valve also known as MR:HC or just Human Chocolate, pierces the listener’s space by bringing his prick punch to a red hot on different furnaces. The ferocious introduction, a frenzied From Avanto With Love remix (!) of a track entitled Elbow Knock you’re going to hear later, acts (more properly than the original version) as the title suggests through a boiling caldron whereas electromechanical compressed samples, electronic convulsive hiccough (close to the one you can extract when recording the buzzes while short-circuiting the board of a drum machine!), precedes Tissues and Candles, a sort of morbid lullaby built on pitch adjusting of a carillon-like sequence, while the following track, Responsability, walks on the impassable path of industrial and breakcore, slightly alter its own course in the scratching industrial hip-hop in the following Skincrawler (featuring Pedigree, a young and very interesting band by Holden Laamann and Taavi Aavik, armouring the sound of this EP with a course provokative and appreciated tone who could remind the sound of bands such as Swamp Terrorists), letting appear on the surface the sound of many innovative beat-makers. After the banque of noisy jumps on 3-tone sequence of the above-mentioned Elbow Track (a sort of ideal sonic rendez-vous between Autechre, Ab ovo and Negativland I enjoyed a lot), wheres a sort of melody resurface in a more audible way than the initial remix, Julius proposes a plain lulling rockish track, Darkest Days, featuring Roy Boswell, Emily Boswell and a sampled hen, turned into chicken into the recording studio! As the cover artwork by Bon Jarno seems to suggest, it’s like Aprox puts a finger into your pavilion before licking it!” (Chain DLK)
“”Come on you fucking fag” and the beats and harsh noises starts as a fucked up DJ who is turning several albums simultaneously. The first track called “Elbow Knock” of the Bad Music EP of the Finnish APROX. starts as a smash in the face. Six tracks fill this 3″CDR and techno, distorted hip-hop, alternative guitarmusic and industrial noises. [...] The construction of the CD is well-chosen and the songs are composed during 2004-2008. The songs blend seamlessly into one another and take the listener into different worlds. The music is really creative and several elements of different kinds of popular music styles melt together in an electronical world. The title of the CD is meant as a provocation, cause the music is not bad at all and I hope in future we will hear more music of this Finnish musical disturber.” (Vital Weekly)
