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ARTIST
TITLE
The Illusion of an Alternative Choice
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CATALOG #
PMSH 001LP
PMSH 001LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/9/2018
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Crack shot wiry techno from Stockholm's Simon Haydo, putting his trusted Korg MS-20 through its paces for Peder Mannerfelt Produktion after showcasing the semi-modular synth's myriad permutations on Avian, Hivern Discs, and Studio Barnhus in recent years. Working shades away from Peder Mannerfelt's less-is-more style, Haydo becomes the latest in a line of producers stretching from Suicide through Fad Gadget and Powell to fetishize and utilize Korg's classic, tactile little box for everything from kick drums to melodies and anything between. However, The Illusion of an Alternative Choice would simply be an academic exercise in asceticism if it weren't for the remarkable diversity of sounds Haydo generates from his chosen bit of kit. Like Lorenzo Senni with his Roland JP-8080, or Mark Fell with the Yamaha DX7, Haydo reveals a wealth of variation from the Korg MS-20, reveling in its textured gradients and tweaky integers between the pulsating, viscous morph and off-kilter dissonance of "Let Know" to the search-and-destroy 'ardcore mentasm-style licks of "Not For You?", through the dry, blocky roller "The Go!", to the sharp-cut jack-beat of "Parade Of Unhappy" and unstable cosmic fuss of "Out". In effect, by proving you can create a whole record with lots of variation, but only using one synth, Haydo also cocks a cool snook at those n00b producers with expensive banks of kit who produce the most prosaic, tepid and gridlocked house -- basically proving that it's not what you've got, but how you use it. Edition of 300.
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