Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett - Venetian Snares

A beautiful album from Venetian Snares

Advantages: Beautiful . Innovative . Intelligent
Disadvantages: None whatsoever!

(no lifting, similarities are coincidential - past experience in reviewing) MY DOWNFALL Every single music critic has branded My Downfall as a companion piece to Venetian Snares' 2005 release Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett. Technically, this is correct but it doesn't really do much to aptly describe the album either. Ever since his 2001 album Songs About My Cats, Aaron has been using the kind of operatic and avant-garde tones found in this particular release. The artist obviously has a deep-rooted interest in modernist music, and in My Downfall this resonates more than anything else. I do not mean to sound snobbish, but I think that many of the fans do not recognize these elements and subtleties, so much that when My Downfall came out, it was immediatly percieved as "soft" or "too classical". You really have to know a bit about ...

gantzgraf 26.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of My Downfall - Venetian Snares

The cult album from the master of snares

Advantages: Unique, Disturbing, Abrasive, Intelligent, Technical
Disadvantages: None

Aaron's follow-up to Songs About My Cats. Doll Doll Doll is the third album that Venetian Snares released in 2001. Considering his Printf album under the Isolate Records label, this is the man's fourth album. Songs About My Cats was a 14-track masterwork and the artist's first John Cage-esque exploration in sound. You could say that Doll Doll Doll fits somewhere in between the best moments of Making Orange Things (Planet Mu, 2001) and Songs About My Cats, while exhibiting some new ideas. D.D.D is an uncompromising serving of gabber / breakcore. Do not let that "genre tag" fool you; this album is extremely good. If you are familiar with Venetian Snares, you will know what I mean. If not, simply put: V. Snares is not your average electronica. Aaron Funk is one the most important voices on the experimental electronica scene. D ...

gantzgraf 13.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Doll.doll.doll - Venetian Snares

Interesting but flawed

Advantages: Some interesting tracks, absolute sound control
Disadvantages: One of Venetian's weakest efforts/collaborations

that it seems to stay focused on the same pattern all the time: noise + gabber + breakcore. It is very frustrating when you compare this to other albums like Songs About my Cats, Chocolate Wheelchair Album or Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett. M.O.T is composed of 11 tracks and lasts 41 minutes approx. The album still is interesting, though. First of all, I should probably point out that, if you are new to Venetian Snares, this album is for people with an OPEN mind. It is an extreme piece of work. My main complaint is the lack of direction - not the merciless gabber-noise punctuation. Fire Beats is very much like the title suggests. This one is composed of a fine layer of regular technoid gabber-beats and extremely saturated break-noise. We Hate Russell plays like a jammed CD, using a neat skip effect and monstrous crushing beats. After ...

gantzgraf 12.08.2006 (06.09.2006) · Read full review
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Review of Making Orange Things - Venetian Snares/Speedranch