As I'm mostly using this blog to distribute information amongst any who come across this, I'm going to send you towards some of the most fucked up music you've heard.
Venetian Snares is a Noize/Glitch/IDM producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). He's gathered popularity, by my observation, in a few different scenes: The Vancouver Hardcore Scene (if such a thing exists anymore. I dunno. I've been out of town for a year and out of the loop for another), The online pretentious raver scene and, most recently, around Duncan's music scene.
IDM, or "Intelligent Dance Music", is somewhere between Drum & Bass and Noize. Very spastic drum machines, lots of fucked up sounds using high-speed snares and whatnot. Crazy glitchy sounds made through weird effects on sinewave audio patterns. Some stuff is what I'd call more "experimental" than others, But V-snares is notoriously great for just tripping your mind out with music. Not always for dancing, but can be danced to. I think it depends on how good of a drug user you are or something like that.
At any rate. I have high opinion of this man as a musician. If you enjoy it, I'll further recommend Hella, Boards of Canada and a number of the people hosted on the Gabber.org website.
Posted by ebbomega at July 27, 2004 12:39 PM