'
With his first release +1, Bleip exceeds musical divisions and
takes us in playfull and strange universe at once. A tense combination
of deconstructed sounds, soft melodies and accidents produce a
mutant music where sound and image unifie in a minimalist ballet.
Bleip is also a member of Pleix collective, a community of digital
artists (graphic designers, 3d artists, musicians...). The Pleix
touch could be a common work on limits, contradictions and accidents
that show the fragility of the digital world. These artists produce
tension by joining together heterogeneous graphics, videos and
sounds.'
You
may remember Pleix's video for the Plaid track which was part
of the Creative Review / WARP competition.
Track
one "iqio" is a stuttering , rewinding , bleepmania
onslaught. Take the guts from a Pc Engine, weld them onto a Atari
Jaguar, make the creation dance and sing and this is what you
get. Hatched lyrics attempt to break in but are held back by whistley
tones and electronic bass strikes. PING!
"More" is scary. A dry robotic voice sings along with
a clicky melody and low volume bassline. Really hard to work out
what the voice is trying to say. Maybe a malfunctioning courtesy
droid which has fallen over in the shower. Just maybe.
"Desk"
is a minimal clicky track which introduces liquidy stabs and bubbled
tones and drops in a slightly acidic attack near the end. Madness.
"Freaky dsco" is nearly a disco, but something is going
terrribly wrong, the dj seems to have fallen asleep and the needle
has jumped to the end of the track,, but wait....its back alive.
A thudding 8bit bassline runs alongside a harsh snarey beat which
is then joined by a bubbling spangly assault. Bubble bubble .vvvhhvvhvviihvhvvz....END.
"Oscal"
reverberates around your ears, drilling away with a jewel encrusted
drill. Shards of diamond spiral into your ear rubbing against
the skin creating wily spinning audio twirls. The beat kicks in
and it bursts into life, until the main humming bass jumps and
loses its way falling into a pit of cables. Slowly he sinks into
sleep and falls silent. Cool track.
"Clicks"
is the theme tune to pacman sneaking out of the house at 3am,
careful not to wake Miss Pacman. Running out onto the street his
little red shoes tack and spark off the metallic roads, and cars
beep their fudge horns as he dashes across the road. "Escape
from New York" or "The Warriors" crushed inside
a kinder egg, shaken up and poured into a battery, this battery
is used to power Pacmans alarm clock. ZAP BEEP BOP Miss Pacman
is awake...watch out Pac!
Pleix
- Bleip +1 is cool. The tracks are maybe to short and im sure
they could really kick off if they were longer. Anyway I like
this ep, its a journey into the audio side of Pleix which is good
to hear after seeing the visual work.
Beepy,
minimal and adventurous. Coola.
Sam
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