INNER DEMONS RECORDS – NEW BATCH 1/2024
The most recent batch of Inner Demons Records from Florida hit the office, and it’s massive (!!!) again. There are no less than 19 new releases by well-known and lesser-known artists, and in these coming few weeks, I’ll be looking at some of them. Or all of them, I don’t know yet. As I’ve written several Weeklies before, Inner Demons Records is the label of Dan Fox, who we know from projects Loss (Spectre Records / ant-zen), Fail, If and several other lesser-known but just as exciting projects. The thought behind the label is that everything goes style-wise as long as your heart is in the right spot. The rules you receive are clear (‘tRUMP SYMPATHIZERS, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND OTHER CULT MEMBERS NEED NOT APPLY’); for the rest, it’s art. Just art. Sounds. Noise. Rhythm. Walls. Anything …
The Ibiza Shock Troops have been ‘doomed to dance since 2007’. Frans just reviewed the duo of Carl Kruger on beats and Chefkirk on noise about three weeks ago in Vital 1427. Frans’ conclusion then was that ‘this is sometimes all it takes to get a party going’. And exactly that was what I thought when hearing this 3″ (which is my favourite format of all times).
What makes it a fun release is that there are six tracks, each around 3 minutes long, all uptempo and noisy. Rhythmically, there isn’t a real style, I suppose. It’s not like drum and bass or acid or techno or something like that. But in all honesty, I don’t think everything in Ibiza is a particular style. Some things there are merely style-adjacent. And as long as there are techno artists who sometimes noise things completely up, there is still hope for everyone.
The one thing I liked a bit less from this release – but this is all personal – is Chefkirk’s approach to the noise layers. It would have added for freaks like me if there had been a bit more variation in the chosen sounds or the production/manipulation of the noise layers. Maybe add some effects and change them between tracks, use a different waveform, or something else. But then again, this might also very well be a choice which the concept behind the Ibiza Shock Troops needs. And I’m making a fool of myself here even thinking about it. Favourite track: #4
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