Deep and deadly from: Deadly Custard – Pulse #Moody #Electronica

Another Champions League over for another year. Another Real Madrid win. Relentless. A bit like tonight’s offering from Deadly Custard. Their dark electronica gets the job done and leaves you floored.

Deadly Custard is British designer and artist Jon Newton. Sounds a silly name until you realise the unique nature of custard. It’s not only a non-Newtonian liquid in its made up form but also has dangerously explosive potential in powder form. Really. Have a google.

Musically, here’s Pulse from a twin track EP with Flutter. As a track Pulse is somewhere between IDM and Electronica. It’s a moody little bugger filled with IDM darkness and angularity but retaining a relaxed and sinuous style from electronica. There’s a bit of Jon Hopkins here and I’d say some Max Cooper. They say David Holmes but that seems a bit off, unless you’re talking about his early techno work.

This is filled with reverberating sounds that edge towards distortion and then back off. There’s a lovely flexible bass line that give the track a loose limbed quality while the keyboards go off on one into epic, almost orchestral, flights of fantasy. The percussion is complex and changeable.

Theres a bit of dark psychedelia at play here. This is late night paranoid and anxious listening but with a saving grace at its heart.

~ by acidted on June 1, 2024.