RVCA

Thanks, it's good to have someone breathe life into this sinkhole

9. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (2005, Breakbeat/Drum and Bass/Modern Classical)



“What if, for just one day, we could both be pigeons? Sometimes one moment in time can take on such an important significance that it becomes an endless world unto itself and everything outside of that moment, past and future spots in time, become the folklore of the world. What if we could both fly over the Királyi Palota and see it just as these pigeons do? A beautiful culture of dissimilar angles as donkey angels above the city. But even in the world of the infinite moment, we cannot choose the feather of our bird and so on. Furthermore as our world blossoms out of this romantic flood of euphoric possibility and fascination, for the other an inferior life of ****ting on everyone from the sky, awkward and ashamed, resigning themselves to be the wretched nuisance they are painted as by those they **** on.
Ultimately, as quickly as our world blooms, our world is discordant, and our pigeons are wounded, and as our world dies, we die, and we are extinct. If only we could kill ourselves over and over until we get it right.

So just as an entire genre of music can be born out of one sped up ten second breakbeat, a full symphony orchestra can come together in harmonic unison to create that perfect moment in time, thus every moment can give birth to an entirely new world, and every world can house the recognition, that orchestra may combine to bring forth a dissonant barrage of colossal sorrow, and so the moment disintegrates its world and that world suffocates the moment under its collapse.

These are love songs and grief songs.”

-Liner notes to Rossz Csillag Alatt Született.

How could a bottom-dwelling miser like myself pass up such a tantalizingly dreary bit of art? Answer: I couldn't. If you've ever desired to witness the result of bastardizing Aphex Twin's ridiculous breakbeats and some classical Hungarian folk instrumentation, with a healthy dose of dissonance and despair mixed in for good measure-- this is your best bet, I'd reckon.

Highlights: Öngyilkos vasárnap, or "Suicidal Sunday" - contains an eerie sample of Billy Holidae covering a Hungarian composition that was banned by the BBC in the 1940's, as being detrimental to wartime morale
"Hajnal", or "Dawn" - string samples lead into brass that resembles jazz, eventually building imto a frenzied crescendo replete with a breakbeat panic attack
"Hiszékeny", or "Credulous" - perhaps the most uplifting track (not that any of it is uplifting... so most-not-depressing track) that leads into...
"Kétsarkú mozgalom", or "Double Cornered Movement" - a lonesome violin amidst what can be described as the summation of Rossz' "dissonant barrage of colossal sorrow".