Pita

Get Down

★★★½

You ever just turn off all your lights and flip through channels endlessly in the dead of night, only stopping briefly on those programs which produce the strongest light? This album is like that for me. The funny looking cover doesn't give me the impression that this music will be a hodgepodge of glitches, alarms, and intensely exaggerated sound textures; instead it looks like a cover for an obscure drum n bass or footwork 12 inch. 

"We Don't Need No Music" is the opening track that really stands out, it's basically ambient music that is being played through a decaying arcade game from the 80's. It stands out in the way "Opium" stands out on the Christoph De Babalon album. This transitions to the longest and most diverse song on here, "43353.rf", which describes that situation I was talking about. Just a barrage of rapidly changing sounds that disorient you and leave you sort of helpless in the hands of the musician. 

The rest is especially noisy, and on a track like "Acid Udon", you're basically exposed to a large siren on a cargo ship that corresponds with the creaking of the walls around you; forming a primitive type of beat. "Vent / Glass" is a fun piece of textured shards of glass that seem to be pixelated into what then sounds like thousands of marbles or gumballs. 

The glitch continues on a massive scale, eventually becoming extraterrestrial. The bleeps and bloops of computing take over and you're left with very little organic material. This whole album seems like a transformation from that state of organic chaos into a deeply mechanical and automated environment. It's a bit scary, but just don't think about it too hard. 

Favorite Song: 43353.rf