- Thrilling techno and hardcore cuts from a rising producer.
- Sadomodernism's opening two tracks, "The Body Keeps The Score" and "No," are steeped in melodrama.Thunderous drums, clanking metal and an aching synth line lead into a chilling operatic score, with anguished wails over a funeral march teeming with metallic noise. It seems like we're being set up for a sombre piece of theatre rather than a club record. But halfway into "Soiled" these two worlds combine, producing the striking ancestral-meets-industrial techno sound that Osheyack explores on the rest of his debut LP.
Sadomodernism's title refers to a theory about the work of directors like Lars Von Trier ––films that torture and terrorise their audience. Yves Tumor and Pharmakon would be suitable musical equivalents as confrontational artist who uses live performances to shock us out of our complacent consumer roles. These sadomodernistic tenets really start to kick in throughout the LP's second half.
Hardcore has been going through an exciting period of rejuvenation in recent years, with most of the radical stuff emerging from outside of its Dutch crucible. Osheyack is another of hardcore's re-inventors, as tracks like "Split," "Untitled 6" and "Bordertown" make clear. These amphetamine rave bombs all combine hardcore's defining kick and tempo with volatile polyrhythms and the clanging of metals in what feels like the formation a distinct sonic signature.
Osheyack doesn't just play with hardcore. In his trio of tunes with Nahash, industrial techno and ballroom are just some of the threads hammered into a club sound that's barbarous but incredibly danceable. Is the LP a piece of sadomodernist music, then? It's certainly not short of intense, grating moments, but as a terrorising record it fails. Bangers like these won't have the crowd screaming in pain so much as screaming for more.
Tracklist01. The Body Keeps The Score
02. No feat. Milky He & Michael St. Michael
03. Soiled feat. Milky He
04. A River's Mouth
05. Split
06. Balance feat. Nahash
07. Writhe feat. Nahash
08. With Us feat. Nahash
09. Bordertown
10. Untitled 6