Aaron Funk possesses a musical genius that is hard to legitimize. He used to make hardcore dance tracks almost exlusively in 7/4. He’s a kindred spirit to Aphex Twin in terms of eccentricity and tongue-in-cheek attitude, as well as a well-documented history of unorthodox production methods (both artists made albums while in a state of near-sleep). He’s is extremely articulate in interviews, but his aesthetic is vulgar; classic breakcore ridiculousness. He released one of the best electronic albums of all time, and learned to play the trumpet to do it. He also dedicated an entire album to shitting on Winnipeg, Canada. He also dedicated another album to his cats, and inserted their aural ghosts in the mix via spectrogram. He’s infamous for producing his music on ReNoise, a vertical-scrolling music production software that is basically NES-tunes with an updated GUI. Pretty much all of his album covers have sucked.
What does his new EP, Your Face, represent? Well for one thing, it kind of sounds like Funk is playing an epileptic excel spreadsheet, triggering entries from a database to fly by on the screen before the sonic qualitative data can be properly registered. This is a song to effectively remind you why Venetian Snare exists. It’s 100% tracker madness in a year that’s been dominated by grain randomizers and all manner of fuckboi algorithms mulching everything that’s ever been recorded in a desperate bid for originality.
• Venetian Snare: https://venetiansnares.bandcamp.com
• Planet Mu: http://www.planet.mu