VEYL Germany レコード& CD

Review: Colombian producer and live act Filmmaker's infamous exploits have been previously heard on subterranean imprints such as Detriti, Opal Tapes and Tartarus in recent times, but he's now found a fitting home for his gritty style of industrial music on Berlin's VEYL. Of the eight pitch black offerings on Fictional Portrayals, there's some truly punishing techno body music as experienced on the title track, brooding post-punk instrumentals like on 'Orphic Eggs', as well as dystopian electro beats for sci-fi fantasies on 'Immunue To Propaganda' and haunting atmospheric IDM as heard on closing track 'Far From Prospect'.

Review: Thomas Freiro and Alex Knoblauch recently described VEYL's first multi-artist offering as "an experiment in noise and body music". 'In practice, that means a blend of moody, paranoia-inducing drum machine chug (Years of Denial's dark, arpeggio-driven "Is It Over Yet"), bustling, funk-fuelled Nitzer Ebb revivalism (the rather fine dancefloor workout that is Autumns' brilliantly named "Get It Booked You Bastard"), red-lined industrial electro (RNXRX's "Cybele"), slamming techno/thrash metal fusion (the punch-to-the-guts that is Maenad Veyl's "Subtle Violence"), Depeche Mode style creepiness ("Beetleguise" by Poison Green) and vaguely unsettling, paranoid electronica (Exhausted Modern's superb EP closing cut "Nekam Nesen"). It's all pretty clandestine and gothic in ethos, but also really rather good.