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Review #1
At first I had to double check I'd put the right CD in. I mean, where are the glitchy beats and random noises? Konnektquartet opens with a wealth of warm strings, before reassuringly giving way to Herv's inimitable blend of breakcore. Food Ghost's shouty and frenetic pulse and Decisions Decisions' nintendo-esque stop-start underplay both follow suit, delivering substance to match the melodies of 2003's excellent Snap Hands.
Dissolve adopts a more ambient stance, playing things out a slower but no less sinister pace, while the sytlish Chipcore No. 7 gives way to techno snatches between layers of imagination. MPME's fractured methodology is ice cool, while Exhaustion pretty much does exactly that.
Always nudged towards the darker side of abstract, it may take a while to find exactly what you're looking for on Customer. Herv offers electronica from an alternative perspective; real electronica, some would say. Rather than ust offering pretty songs that happen to be made from beats rather than instruments, Herv alters the structure completely, delving into something far more complex but ultimately also more rewarding.
Review #2
New cd on Go Away Recordings from this Irish based electronic artist, the album ranges in styles from some
very mellow beat driven electonica complete with lush string samples over to some heavy breakcore sounds
reminscent to the great kid 606 or even some early aphex twin, hard hitting abstract electronic sounds that
would make the perfect soundtrack to a day at a psychedelic fairground or some messed up gameboy game.
Review #3
Music released by Irish Go Away Recordings deal with the electronic kind, and is usually
uptempo, broken up and fucked up. But the introduction track on 'Cutsomer' by Herv is a
nice electronic string quartet. 'Customer' is Herv' third CD following 'Snap Hands'
and 'Introduction To Synthesizers' (the latter reviewed in Vital Weekly 488) and here
Herv, aka Ewan Hennelly, continues to work with gameboys and laptops, and in general
it sounds truly fucked up again, with breakbeat spattering all over the place, but there
are moments of warmth and refines, such as in 'Dissolve', with it's accordion sounds.
Thus Herv created an album that is well beyond the standard of breakbeat and gabba core
music, but something that is also well enjoyable for the more adventurous lover of
electronic music, especially techno (and related) musics. Me personally I do like breakbeat
in it's purest form only when served in little amounts, but Herv is the positive exception:
love it all!
Review #3
This HERV CD 'Customer' sounds promising with the opening strings of 'Konnektquartet' which are
reminiscent of Aphex Twin or Apparat. Then we get some chopped up jungle breaks and 8-bit video game
sounds. Think of Joseph Nothing, Mochipet, Printed Circuit, Cylob, Team Doyobi. There are some nice
little melodies on here, cheeky beat programming and tracks that vary from the abstract to the danceable.
Worth checking I'd say. On Go Away.
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