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 Subscribe for Phthalo Mailings  Now Available :  PH49: Libythth: Upside Down Helicopter: CD Phthalo Records is privileged to present the third full-length album by Libythth. Approximately five years in the making, it is maximal and massive. Thematically braiding circus mania and happy-hardcore gabber, audio of lectures on computational logic, and brute absurdity, Upside Down Helicopter may cause ecstasy or indignation, but Seth insists that most importantly his music is simply a lot of fun. In contrast to the previous two Libythth albums on Phthalo Records, there is a surgicality here not unlike that of Eight Frozen Modules (Phthalo #41: Random Activities and Broken Sunsets). The album opens with the sound of approaching helicopter blades mimicked by the all too familiar puttering of a chopped Amen breakdown, suddenly impaled by a large harpoon and buried under a massively distorted synth squall, effectively cutting off any further connection between Libythth and the bloated whale carcass that is breakcore. Unlike much of the formulaic and stubbornly ubiquitous post-drillcore sample tracked breaks music, the hubris of which being so reminiscent of '80s power-metal guitar solo self-indulgence, Libythth's attention to detail has a more noble, seasoned, and original identity. Libythth's patient method is steered by a substantial amount of live rhythms, which Seth plays on MIDI drumpads. Transcending the storm of variously pitch-shifted breakbeat snares, as well as the automatism of generative, algorithmic post-IDM, what emerges is a style belonging to Libythth alone.  PH48: Terminal 11: Additions to Arsenal: CD From One Week to Live (UK)  PH40: Andrew Duke: Consumer vs User: CD From The Wire magazine (UK) |
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