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by Adam Anonymous
It’s that time again. Three or four times a year, speakers quiver in anticipation. They’re prisoners waiting for their execution. It has returned, and there will be no let up. It is Canada’s bastard son, Venetian Snares.

‘Einstein-Rosen Bridge’ has all the expected pre-requisites - beats that tumble over each other in the fight to attain maximum volume, casually causing constant confusion as to whether all this is running at the correct RPM. There’s a head-warpingly battered sample about travelling through the space-time continuum – the single’s named after some black wormhole malarkey – hellish strips of white noise & bass, then it’s gone.

In the spirit of The Beatles‘White Album’ and Metallica’s ‘Black Album’, this is taken from the just released, technically self-titled, new VSnares album, tremendously otherwise known as ‘The Chocolate Wheelchair Album’. Which should give a little insight.

For those of you who’ve created music before, this is all in 7/8 time, apparently. For the remainder, this is seriously out of step drum madness designed to make you dance, almost certainly violently, badly and embarrassingly. Either way, it’s more abnormal than, erm, well, a chocolate wheelchair.

  • Venetian Snares 9 / 10
Words: Adam Anonymous

e.r.b. time signature

this is in 7/4

Re: e.r.b. time signature

dont be a tit. its a matter of choice as to whether you choose to define the beats as quavers or crotchets.

k

I'm sure it's good whatever timing it's in. Must listen to it...

the other side

I think it's rather essential to get this one along w/ Winter In The Belly Of A Snake. They are, quite literally, polar opposites of each other. The image I get, listening to the two of them, is of someone who is manic depressive (and a brilliant music maker). First, he locks himself in his bedroom all winter, then emerges with WITBOAS. Then, he becomes really peppy (to an almost absurd measure), records his take on pop music, includes a bazillion hidden jokes, and makes TCWA. Frankly, the two of them combined make an excellent primer as to every type of msuic VSnares does. WITBOAS is the better of the two, but it is (emotionally) a draining listen, while TCWA is one of the few VSnares albums you can listen to while in a good mood.

Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge

IT@S IN 1/1 YOU MOTHERF**KERS.
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(REPEAT)

UGH!