Venetian Snares – Fool The Detector

Mutant drum and bass-meets breakcore? Check. Totally insane lyrics about sub-aquatic telepathy? Check. Chest-punchingly deep bass end, and cinematic ambient flourishes of strings and piano? Triple check. Venetian Snares is one of the only electronic artists out there truly worthy of comparison to Aphex Twin: mainly because, as a listener, you get the impression he could not give a single solitary fuck about genre, the internal cohesion of each track, or any notion of dance music as a commodity to be mixed, blogged about: a fashion thing. No. This is balls-out sonic experimentation, pushing against the limits of what is danceable and listenable. Challenging, sometimes frightening, and all the better for it.