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01. INNERCITY - Baal's (Kitten Trumpeter Choir)
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02. INNERCITY - Masks and Mold Matter
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03. INNERCITY - Raragrams
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04. INNERCITY - Barks (Mega, Omega and Magi)
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05. INNERCITY - In Abra and Umbra
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06. INNERCITY - A-Baba-Al-One
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07. INNERCITY - And Dead As All Black Acts
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ARTIST
INNERCITY
TITLE
ABABABABABABAS (Blue Lion Child)
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FURTHER RECORDS
CATALOG #
FUR 095LP
FUR 095LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/10/2015
Do you ever listen to a record and worry about its creator's sanity? Granted, it rarely happens, but in the case of
Innercity
-- Antwerp producer
Hans Dens
-- it's a legitimate concern. Thankfully, Dens's apparent madness manifests itself in music so uncompromising and off the charts of classification that it convinces you that any kind of sonic innovation at this late date demands a bit of mental instability. By way of explanation, Dens says, "People forget that there is only magic in this world, mostly black, nothing more." In other news: You will never confuse this Innercity with
Kevin Saunderson
's
Inner City
.
ABABABABABABAS (Blue Lion Child)
makes Dens's rather strange first album on Further, 2012's
A Lion Baptism
, seem like radio-friendly fodder by comparison. The producer admits, "This release is surely one of my harsher, bleak ones... I tried to keep it pure, and again bleak. Also put the keyboards in the shelf for this one; it's all guitar and violin through an array of effects..." "Baal's (Kitten Trumpeteer Choir)" fades in with what sounds like waves of harsh, scalding feedback -- let's call it "the black metal of ambient." Dens conjures pitiless, post-apocalyptic atmospheres, but imbues them with a residual glow of dignity. The tidal "Masks and Mold Matter" could be a noir soundtrack that's too weird and nightmarish even for
David Lynch
. Its main sound source sounds like the irradiated molecules of a psych-rock guitar riff by
Chrome
's
Helios Creed
. What passes for a respite in Innercity's harsh sonic universe comes from "Raragrams," with ill oscillations that seem to have escaped from
Gil Mellé
's groundbreaking
Andromeda Strain
soundtrack (1971). On "In Abra and Umbra," Dens creates a desolate Plutonian ambience that'll give your ears frostbite, unleashing clouds of unidentified frying sonics. With perverse whimsy, Dens lets some unfeasibly heavy beats intrude in the last minute. "A-Baba-Al-One" defines a new form of chilling horror-film soundtrack; its synths actually shiver and moan. The album closes with "And Dead As All Black Acts," which sounds like a yeti trying to pound its way out of a casket. Anguished tones of unclassifiable extremity and distress send us out on a note of ecstatic bafflement. You realize you've reached the end of this record alive, and you're much stronger because of it. Featuring
Bart De Paepe
from Sloow Tapes. Artwork by
Chloe Harris
and poetry by Hans Dens. Cut by
CGB
@ Dubplates & Mastering.
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