“I’m not exactly a coinoisseur, or an excessive consumer, of purely electronic music, but some things are really undeniable. When you get an email about an artist whose new work is described as “responding to the continuing conflict in his homeland, Potopalskyi channels his fury about the horror of the war into assaultive, discordant music of sawtooth granularity, formidable rhythms and glimpses of elegiac electronics. Recalling the vivid industrial minimalism of Mika Vainio, the pulverizing metalwork of early Neubauten, the hyperkinetic neural overload of Autechre and the surgical glitch schematics of Raster-Noton, ‘Postulate’ is the confrontational sound of collapse, a seething testimony of personal catharsis through sound,” you better fucking sit up and pay attention, otherwise that you might just throw out that dead black lump you have inside where your heart should have been.”
The full interview is here:
https://thedevilsmouth.substack.com/p/band-of-the-week-ujif_notfound