Team Doyobi - Antiquity ep

Label : SKAM
Catalogue number : SKA025

Release date : 2004

 

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Vinyl


New on SKAM by them amiga crunching, machine bending, parallax scrolling duo. we all know and love as Team Doyobi.

"A-mode <wizards are in the cave mix>" plods up the wall leaving a bassy acid vibe in its wake, and progressing on its mission dribbling from its slot like mouth a constant stream of jackbeats, which build up around the wall like a minature forcefield. Manmade voices syphoned through gold and silver filters are pressed into tiny pixelated boxes and strapped onto the back of 8bit creatures who dissapear in a cloud of corrupted code, causing a ripple like crunch to pulse through the land. The beats are fired from far far away, by rogue caterpillars who have legs made of eject buttons, and hard exoskeletons formed from broken liquid crystal displays, they really do love them there beats, and take it in turns to slot them into place. The Doyobi then turn up, in a jacked CD32 and proceed to hoover all this weirdness into a small capsule which is the size of a dib-dab, and then throw it into a luminous red ball never to escape, fire up the console and nuke off into the distance with a manic laugh. I just saw that ball smile at me, Im outta here. Quality TD advenuretimerememberancehack. Hearts all around. (Power Up)

"The muller fokker effect" pushes a minature clock with 3 hands into your cheek, stands back and shatters into a million pieces, like a xylophone full of C4. Imagine hundreds of wafer thin slices of vocal, scattered into the air then sucked back to the ground and processed through a scanner by a half asleep stick of memory, this is exactly what you get in this track. Add small remnants of acid disco pokes and cheatcodes, and you have the perfect recipe. Seconds please. "The east coast" rounds off this release. Different in style, this is a slow brooding message to all those bell headed robots out there, laced with heavy earthquake melody rumbles and staticy messages, that attempt to communicate with your primitive mind.


Team Doyobi can do know wrong in my head. The knowledge which seems to be honed through years and years of game and audio messing around is clear to hear, and its all tiedtogether in a package that is TD through and through, but always manages to crank that chipset to the next level. Sweet as.


Sam


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