VENETIAN SNARES

VENETIAN SNARES
WINNIPEG IS A FROZEN SHITHOLE (2005)
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Although Venentian Snares' reputation as being one of the fastest and ear bleeding electronic acts at the moment is one he seems to steer away from on some albums (Winter In The Belly Of A Snake, Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett), its a reputation he wholeheartedly embraces on Winnipeg Is A Frozen Sh*thole. This album recalls his noisy debut Making Orange Things that he made with Speedranch - loud, fast and considerably less complex and glitch/IDM than his usual output (but a lot more complex than normal gabba/speedcore). With that said, I'd say that Winnipeg Is A Frozen Sh*thole is quite a bit better than Making Orange Things (an album I've only just grown to enjoy and gave a rather scathing 1 star review to 8 months ago) due to a more cohesive sound, more attention to beats and rhythms and a much more intelligent use of samples.
The music is gabba driven breakcore. Relentlessly fast and never with a quiet moment, the album is one of his most dancable (providing the dancers have a taste for the extreme). Emotion isn't really the name of the game here and neither is complexity (there some 'WTF?' moments but compared to a lot of his stuff Winnipeg Is A Frozen Sh*thole relatively straight-ahead). Although not as brain meltingly complex as Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits or as experimental as Doll Doll Doll it makes up for it by being very danceable and catchy the only way Venetian knows how. If you want your next Venetian Snares album to be a little more than gabba driven noisecore for the mentally unstable to dance to then pass this up for the time being, but its a great album so don't go too long without it.

1. Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole
2. Winnipeg Is A Dogshit Dildo
3. Winnipeg Is Fucking Over
4. Winnipeg Is Steven Stapleton's Armpit
5. Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die
6. Winnipeg As Mandatory Scat Feed
7. Winnie The Dog Pooh (Not Half Remix)
8. Winnipeg Is A Boiling Pot Of Cranberries (Fanny Remix)
9. Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (Spreading the Hepatitis SKM-ETR Style)