$8.00
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED/
DRUMS LIKE MACHINE GUNS split 12"
BM009- Ltd. 500
Art by Dearraindrop
Ltd 500 on black
Paper Thin Walls:
"The lo-fi, bedroom-bound, Philly tweaker version of the current joynoise whoosh of Fuck Buttons and High Places: Mincemeat Or Tenspeed is more reserved and more 8-bit, but no less hypnotic if you stumble into his laser trail. Davey Harms, the lone Meatman, purports to be a failed techno electrogeek (he didn't have any gear), who haxx0rd his way into dance bliss using only guitar pedals (dude didn’t even have a computer). And while everyone from Black Dice to Gang Gang Dance to Growing makes Line6-boogie these days, Mincemeat foregoes the broken Kompakt beats and choppy scuzz and makes a beeline for Ibiza, trying to coat everything in a warm trance, barely focusing on the beat at all beyond a dull throb. In fact, the beat changes like four times—from engine purr to martial mosh to a noise mambo to a sparse gamelan patter. Maybe because Harms is a rhythm-layering savant, maybe because it's uncontrollable, as most of the beats are thuds made by mixer feedback."
Z-GUN:
"The are so relentless on the on first listen this seems much more like an attack then music. Step away from confronting these tunes and the record listens pretty damn good. Mincemeat or Tenspeed at first comes off as a smart ass take on Steve Reich, but builds some riffs, shatters some rhythms, shifts into new hooks and grooves through. This is loud minimalism. Drums Like Machine Guns owes more to early Industrial noise than minimalism, but it to attempts to do more with less. Drums succeeds and build some pretty tremendous sounds."