Saturday, October 17, 2009

Who is MusSk?




It's been awhile since I've written a review on anything here. In all honesty, I've been rather bored with what I've been hearing lately as everything seems to have gone the way of Neuro-Funk and sounds the same. Wobble Wobble Wobble Wobble Kazoooooo! So I've been exploring other genre's of my music roots in Blues and Rock n' Roll. However, a friend of mine asked me to review this album so I accepted, and I am very glad I did.

This is fresh music direct from the digital age. Is it Dubstep? Glitch? Glitch-Step (I know all the dubstep purists are cringing at that one!) Post-dub? What the Fuck?! I haven't been this blown away buy an artist album since Burial released his two debut albums two years ago. Electronica had seemed to come to a weird stagnate period and then all of a sudden MusSck busts into the scene with a debut album entitled "The Digital Ninja"

A stuttered, fragmented, half-tempo'd, glitched out collage of sounds with simple Dubstep inspired rhythm patterns, low sub bass lines, and intricate layered melodies. The sound collage seems to hang in eternity while still moving at high speed;Changing constantly like a tension line about to snap, almost as if the sudden collapse, caused by the failure of digital technology, is near and life as we know it will cease to exist.

This album is very experimental and invokes a sense of anxiety felt from a digital civilization. This is the sound scape for the Internet generation, with tones and percussion stuttering like a buffering video or audio file on stream. While The Glitch Mob may have made digitized, glitched out and stuttered dance and party music meant for good times and partying, MusSk has reflected the isolation and anxiety that can be felt in this age. The music is perfect for this epoch.

I am sure that we will be hearing a lot more from MusSck in the near future. This is a strong first release with a guest appearance from drummer KJ Sawka (www.kjsawka.com), and album art by Grym. (myspace.com/grymdesign) it was released on Glitch-Hop Temple, Global Vortex Records's sub-label and is a must for electronic music connoseurs.

It isavailable for download at the Glitch-Hop Label Web Page ----> CLICK HERE!

or available at these online record shops: chemical-records.co.uk, addictech.com, audiojelly.com, beatsdigital.com, digital-tunes.net,
djmr.com, djtunes.com, trackitdown.net, xpressbeats.com, zuzula.com and many more...
chemical-records.co.uk, addictech.com, audiojelly.com, beatsdigital.com, digital-tunes.net,
djmr.com, djtunes.com, trackitdown.net, xpressbeats.com, zuzula.com and many more...

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