Is Chris Clark the new electronica mastermind of the times?
Like the master of electronic mood Aphex Twin and the Drum & Bass modernizer Squarepusher, (both also on Warp Records) Chris Clark is taking large and hard techno beats and giving them a fast, violent and gritty new edge. Clark's sound is so boisterous and brutal, I might dare call the sound something along the lines of horror electronica, if there even is such a thing. As intense as it may be, it still has an immense amount of underlaying beauty beneath all the noise. Some tracks are so invasive that they almost sound windy (Ted). Like being blown around in some sort of hellish glitch storm.
It doesn't down play the 'intelligent' aspect of IDM in anyway. These songs are insanely complex and the overall flow of Body Riddle is something that haunts you during and far after listens.
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