Both these two electrocuting circuit breakers – splitting a CD like it was a vinyl, one side each – could be a new force, right now, in the new “post everything” scene, at least in the urban landscape/altered sound perception area. Sydney-based Sivanesan mostly works on those frequencies that change your listening as you move around, putting your monitors to severe tests even at medium level (look at the title of his work for confirmation). Waves shifting all over, holes punched in brains, patterns understood only after a few seconds of ear adapting. Plus, a few good old field recordings get treated and modified according a lucid creativity, in a series of frameworks that must not be ignored by any attentive new music follower. For his part, Vazquez gets to ears a little more pleasingly as his work, devoid of any academic study, is a bridge linking the best “industrial” aromas of the past (dark pulsating loops, low neon-light city soundtracks) with an outlook towards modern present-day pessimism; Duran seems to know there’s no chance for smiling. Even his use of noise is near to social discomfort more than being sonic terrorism. I acknowledge these absolutely respectable entries in my gallery of recent favorites; keep an eye on them in the immediate future because I feel they won’t disappoint.
Massimo Ricci