Patten (live)

London producer patten does knob-twiddling ‘IDM’ with a maniacally schizophrenic ear. This is Venetian Snares-grade adolescent breakcore, displaced to the post-dubstep, cross-generic hardcore continuum that makes up contemporary electronic music. He puts the warped frenzy back into Warp, and that can never be a bad thing.

Attend event:

patten – his hip typographical contrariness the only reason to start a sentence in lower case, thanks very much – is very much an anti-adherent to the niceties of tasteful tradition. Suitably for an artist recently signed to Warp for a new album, the London producer does knob-twiddling ‘IDM’ (a moniker infamously shunned by its key proponents, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher et al.) with a maniacally schizophrenic ear. Moments of shimmering 8-bit loveliness vie for attention with hyper-programmed rips and tears: at times it’s almost Venetian Snares-grade adolescent breakcore, displaced to the post-dubstep, cross-generic hardcore continuum that makes up contemporary electronic music. patten (there’s that upper-case allergy again) puts the warped frenzy back into Warp, and that can never be a bad thing.

Joining him will be Groningen-based producer-polymaths Vakantie. 

PATTEN

//www.youtube.com/embed/uyB8Q74vSvU

More patten:

VAKANTIE

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3572644602/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/

More Vakantie: