Sonar: Overdose Simulation
- Shotgun Radio
- Bite Dog Bite!
- Strict Heat
- Crash and Learn
- Conformist
- Sucked
- Manic Room
- Spreading Mutations
- Route Diagonal
- Headweak
- Shotgun Radio (Monolith Remix)
Sonar is the blistering rhythmic noise side project from Dirk Ivens of Dive and
Patrick Stevens of Hypnoskull. Imagine the brutal cacophony of a typical
Merzbow album with a well defined cadence and random vocal samples. Unlike the
Japan-noise of Masami Akita, however, Sonar's compositions remain just short of
pure dissonance. Instead, they arrange the caustic elements with surgical
precision suited for the dance floor and the percussion to mercilessly pummel
the body into a well defined groove. Do not be intimidated by the aggressive
discord of this album. Allow the album a chance to grow on you. Within a dozen
listens you will unconsciously move random body parts in time with the
structured meter. By then you will be hooked by the intriguing nature of this
power noise phenomenon and will have to obtain the entire back catalogue of
Sonar's greatest influence Esplendor Geometrico.
Sonar is: Dirk Ivens and Patrick Stevens
Contact:
COP International
981 Aileen St.
Oakland, CA 94608
E-mail: cop@dnai.com
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