iGod – Fuckscapes MC

dogs versus shadows teams up with there are no birds here on this split release from Lee Pylon’s TSOTH Records. Taking the title of the release as an inspirational phrase, each artist tells their own sonic tale: exploring the relationship between music, place and memory. The result: two interwoven stories in sound from two shining lights of experimental electronic music. These two long-form pieces make extensive use of an arsenal of home-brewed electronic experiments, field recordings, battered radios, kids walkie-talkies, violins with strings missing through to iPhone apps and weird and wild delay pedals. An essential release!

The Town That Was Murdered is Draaier’s love/hate letter to their home town of Jarrow, an a homage to the book written by Red Ellen Wilkinson. Forgotten at best, actively dismantled at worst, Jarrow is a signifier of the treatment of Northern industrial towns. Pitch black in places but not without glimmers of hope, there is a violence and frustration that runs underneath the surface, a resentment at being ostracised.

This one-off collaboration between electronic artist/producer iGod and noted Japanese Bizzaro Fiction writer Kenji Siratori provides a dark dystopian techno full of cut-and-paste beats and narration.