Boston “darkwave” artist Petridisch has the honor of releasing the
first physical artifact on I Heart Noise, till now a blog and digital mixtape
label intent on unearthing “peculiar sounds” and unleashing them upon the
unwitting populace – sounds a little bit like yours truly, if you ask me. (Except
for the label part – who’s got time for that?) Now there are physical things to
consume in real space! A CD (ugh; edition of 10) and a tape (yay! Edition of
50), but you’ve already bought the tape (because it’s sold out). Petridisch,
true to his vast discographical root structure (see link below), toils in an
electronic landscape that’s part techno, part industrial, all mood, and these
four songs are a perfect entry point into his psyche-delia. “The Unknown
Rabbit” and “Operation Interlude” are my favorite tracks here, mainly because
there’s an added dash of shoegaze that was always oh-so-present in my favorite
netlabel releases from the early to mid-2000s (Laridae,
represent!). Thick synths swell over electro clicks, overwhelming speakers in
the best possible way. “In the Red” and “In the Black” feature vocal samples,
and while they totally work within the genre and within these two tracks, I’ll
take non-vocal tracks any day of the week. Still, “Red” and “Black” have that gothic
element, the female voices drifting over the bleeps and blops like KMFDM
background singers over a half-speed Orbital track. OK, OK, the space is a
magic space. There, I said it, you happy? A FIXED POINT, perhaps THE reference
point for all Petridisch music, is the perfecto place to start your collection
of PD tunes and also IHN releases. Get in on the ground floor here, folks, and
tell everybody I sent ya when these things fetch a grand on Discogs.
--Ryan Masteller
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