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BNR 189EP
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There's a notable progression in A Convenient Excuse Pt. 2 with Cardopusher appearing to be a producer in fast-forward stride. If Pt. 1 (BNR 183EP) was a survey of the darker side of '80s industrial and EBM, Pt. 2 takes a more focused look at the sort of "haunted Italo". Four of the five tracks are up-tempo and club ready this time, driven by vicious arpeggios and bit crushed drums. Skinny Puppy atmospherics still make their appearance, and it is still music to play a tabletop game of Shadownrun to.
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BNR 183EP
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Venezuela's electronic legend Cardopusher is back on Boynoize Records with the first of a two-part EP. The slow, twisted opener is "Broadcast Signal Intrusion", which has haunting bass and crashing hits over heavy drums. Then "Blood & Pain" picks up the pace with electro drums and contorted metallic synths. Slowing things down to a crawl is the masterful "How Deep Is Your Love" with its distorted bass and icy hits. The brain-frying "Subjected To Disintegration" has haunting sounds, shadowy bass, and an emerging dubby groove. "Temporary Forever" is a dirty, rough-edged electro track with stiff bass and edgy chords.
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BNR 169LP
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Venezuela born, Barcelona based Cardopusher's career goes back over 12 years -- the proverbial 10,000 hours to master a skill long fulfilled. New Cult Fear, on Boysnoize Records, proves it through disciplined, focused craftsmanship. It's the type of no-frills production that deceives the amateur listener with its simplicity, while the seasoned listener knows that the simpler the elements, the harder it is to make a track that moves the dancefloor. Moving dancefloors it does, although there are few smiles to be had. This is music for dark rooms, for Nitzer Ebb's famous pairing of "muscle and hate". This is being electrocuted by a broken TB-303 -- only you find the feeling erotic, your exclamations recorded on a haunted reel-to-reel. And it's never sounded so good. The 11 tracks of the LP sit squarely in "the zone", that time in the club when time itself has stopped, when mind turns off and body takes control. Menacing acid lines, jacking bass, and harsh, reductionist production build the backbone to fragmented Latin percussion and vocals (including a feature by Miami's Cuban/German Otto Von Shirach), which nod to Cardopusher's South American roots and lend a sense of exoticism to its otherwise Detroit rooted aesthetic. This sense of geographic and temporal disconnection/reconnection permeates the LP; this is Detroit techno and Chicago acid, broken, fragmented, sent through antiquated and illegal P2P networks to Venezuela, burnt to CDr and snail-mailed to a Barcelona basement rave, recorded live, then blasted wide open in fractal bits over a global electronic network and reassembled here-and-now in a darkly crystalline execution. As the title New Cult Fear suggests, this is less the stuff of dreams and more-so of a paranoid nightmare. But let your body take control, and nightmares never sounded so good.
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BNR 146LP
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Cardopusher is a Venezuelan-born and Barcelona-based DJ, producer, Red Bull Music Academy alumnus, and co-founder of the Classicworks label, which he runs with Nehuen. Inspired by labels like Warp, Schematic, Planet Mu, and Rephlex, and the diverse scene surrounding them in the early 2000s, he decided to begin creating his own productions. Since then he has been cranking out works in different genres of the electronic music spectrum, developing his vision in house, techno, acid, electro, and rave territories and gaining attention from established DJs and producers around the world. Following a couple of EPs on BNR Trax and contributions to Boyznoize's Miami Noize 5 (2014) and 6 (2015) compilations, he delivers his debut Boyznoize full-length, Manipulator. It's a ten-track, hardware-composed album inspired by early rave, '90s EBM/industrial, and lo-fi acid house/techno blended together with modern production touches. Perfect for peak-times or late hours, this record pays homage to underground music. Includes MP3 download codes.
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