Van Boom leaves no area for the faint of heart in his Fact Mix, an classy assault of difficult techno and post club at terminal speed.
Splatters of feedback, squalling sound and damaging ram drums noise the alarm: Van Boom hasactually gottenhere. The Kuwait-based manufacturer, DJ and organiser hasactually been carryingout spirited plastic surgicaltreatment on the ugly face of European techno consideringthat his launching EP frown was launched back in 2019, hammering out a tough, quick and hot take on the noise that stumbles inbetween hard-faced aggressiveness and tongue-in-cheek melodrama. On MORFEUS, his 2020 EP for ANBA, and more justrecently on Prosthetics, his launching album and inaugural release for Varg2™’s Cease 2 Exist imprint, Van Boom sharpens a razor-sharp, high-tech commercial structure with components of post-club turmoil, ’00s bass gymnastics and interpolations of Arabic scales raised from the abundant, idiophonic musical customs of the Gulf area. “The soundscapes I produce catch, misshape, and then piece the commercial surface I grew up around,” he informed METAL. “I absolutely would thinkabout myself to be an outsider, however I mainly felt that method growing up in Kuwait,” he continues. “It’s likewise been hard to link with artists in Kuwait who discovered my noise to be too abrasive and outside of what they’re utilized to. My music is a individual expression that, I hope, can resonate with the sensation of ‘otherness’ – of sensation othered in your own nation.”
On Prosthetics, which the label explains as “a mangled mirror to the social and state forces with which he lives,” and the album’s accompanying collection of remixes, including turns, inversions and eviscerations from some of the manufacturer’s closest goodfriends and brightest motivations, consistingof Endgame, Estoc, E-Saggila, Sorcery, VTSS, Whiterose, Deena Abdelwahed and Slikback, this sensation is distilled into powerful focuses of eldritch environment, penalizing percussion and mutilated noise style, pressed to the most dissociating and cathartic extremes. The verysame pressure is used throughout his blistering Fact mix, an stylish assault at terminal speed. “Pure darkness in industrialised surface is the style of the mix, which includes categories from difficult techno and post-club sound,” he describes. “I desired to show how club music might be showed in a ominous setting with a distinct twist.” Brandishing unreleased weapons from Exploited Body, Estoc and Cardopusher, Van Boom leaves no area for the faint of heart, plunging us into the shadows without so much as a lighter to guide us, letting us loose at deadly speed to be overwhelmed by the discordant force of his noise.
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Tracklist:
Ice_Eyes – ‘Dark Unit’
Death Grips – ‘No Love’ (KAVARI Blood Flow Mix)
LSDXOXO – ‘Rockstar69’ (Exploited Body Remix)
AQXDM – ‘Balled 002’
Witch Trials – ‘Dilemma’
Liza Aikin – ‘Hospita