Hive Records
I had heard of Hive Records before, but the 2004 Rhode Island noisefest was where I first heard music from the label and had a chance to meet the Queen Bee (though it's actually a King Bee ;-). He gave me a couple of CD's to listen to during my holiday and one of them was Duncan Avoid. After several listenings this album really grew on me. And the reason why seems very obvious, after some 10 plays: This is something new!
The music isn't easy; it's not a CD filled with floorfillers for the bouncy goth-wanna-be-industrial kinda people; it's also not a CD which you put in your player and listen too in the background. It grabs your attentions and your mind is starting to play tricks on you.
If I had to describe it with a compositional approach, I would say it's a soundscapish structured album, where instead of layers, erratic sounds and the occasional gong or churchchoir the soundscapes are built from loops, sounds, rhythm-layers and atmospheres with occasional vocals. But re-reading this sentence this way it might sound like incoherent, breakcorish noise. Well, it's not.
It absolutely has elements of breakcore, industrial, noise as well as ambient. But the combination of these elements forms a whole. It's like seeing an animal built from parts of a cow, horse, sheep and pig (yes you can imagine that, can't you? funny, right?) but this mixture is done on gen-level, recombining DNA so an animal is created with aspects of all - on a cellular level ... (much harder to imagine, try it!)
What IS it which grabs you when listening to it? I really can't explain, but this album is a really fresh approach to a scene where i thought i saw it all (NOT!)
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