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Keef Baker is back with another release on Hymen Records. It’s also a rather big release, since it contains two cd’s, called ‘Pen Fifteen’ and ‘Light City’ respectively. Keef Baker is known for his authentic approach to IDM and breakcore with a lot of other influences. The main album of his new release does sound a little bit different from his other work. It sounds especially inspired by rock music. Often times it is very electronically manipulated or aided by much electronic sounds. Tracks like ‘Kellington’ do contain the breakbeat/IDM approach, but there are a lot of filtered rock tunes to be found in here. This can get some getting used to. The very long titled track ‘Mr Snugglebunny's Happy Paradise Is Slowly Turned Inside Out’ is very interesting; it’s a combination of nicely melodic IDM with some guitars in it, towards the end it turns somewhat into breakcore and ends in Autechre-like manipulations also with the aid of guitar sounds, which almost seems like to turn into some digital hardcore track.
Then there’s the second cd, ‘Light City’, which actually sounds really like the Keef Baker we know. Lot’s of fucked-up rhythms and breakcore structures. The whole second cd is one big fast and twisted trip. Also funny to know is that, expect for the last song, all the song are exactly 5 minutes in length, the last one being 59 seconds longer.
A very interesting release from Keef Baker, were the main album sounds very different from his common material. Though with the second cd included, you do get the Keef Baker were you’re paying for. Perhaps it’s kind of like a fail safe, in case people don’t dig the main album, there’s still a cd with more ‘conventional’ Keef Baker sounds. Whatever it may be, it’s a rather interesting and good release you really should pick up!
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