Wikipedia Genre: EBM, electronic, new beat, techno, dubstep Home: Ontario, Canada Poster Position: 5 Day: Sunday at 5:00 Both Weekends.
Thoughts: ooooh, new genres to explore! What is EBM? "Electronic Body Music." WTF does that even mean? It "is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk." Well, OK. Fans of that style of music are apparently called rivetheads. I want to be a rivethead real bad. Now, as for "new beat," wikipedia mentions that it can be EBM played at slower speeds. Fascinating, isn't it, to see how many tiny little slivers of subculture exist out there in music. I mean, there are likely people out there who absolutely worship only slowed up EBM and live and die for each new release in that subculture. Meanwhile, I'm such a musical omnivore that I don't even know the difference between EDM and EBM. But now we do!
Anyway, I get how this sounds fits into what they are saying with that description (even if I think using "body" in the name seems off). Industrial instrumentals, with a bass-heavy, slow and deliberate pace. Kind of hypnotic. In an odd twist, the person behind the laptop here is actually a woman. Isabelle Rezazedeh, a 23 year old Canadian who was born in Ukraine. Wikipedia says she was inspired by Bassnectar shows and was discovered by Skrillex and then signed to Deadmau5's label. So she has a bunch of bona fide influences and connections to the EDM world (er, EBM world...uh, electronica land...). Her top song is "Edge," from a 2016 EP called The Silence is Deafening. Just over 3.7 million streams.
It's like the sound of crickets having a party with an out of tune violin they can only jump on as they snort drain cleaner. She also has tunes that definitely showcase the dubstep aggressive pitch of Skrillex-style tunes, like "DRUGS!" from her only real album, 2017's Mass Manipulation. You also get some NIN style sounds as well (although my electronic palette in electro music is so limited that she might actually sound entirely different from those guys. Oh no, wait, here is an article where they compare her sound to Reznor and something called Gesaffelstein. I'm good.). Also from that article, weird exchange about how she plans to cut out alcohol before shows so that she can reach her full potential. YOU'RE HITTING PLAY ON A LAPTOP, MAN. You reached your full potential months ago when you mixed up the track in the first place.
You can't see her hands that well, but I remember well the video I saw last year of Allison Wonderland acting like she was tweaking the controls when really nothing was even happening. I mean, that is a huge crowd, having a good time, but lets not try to say that she needs her A game, mentally, to let the track play. Her glasses are pretty rad - reminds me of the trippy shit people saw in that Batman movie when they had been dosed by the Scarecrow. I'm ragging on it a little bit, but some of this is pretty fun. In the way old Nine Inch Nails or Ministry was back in the day. Check "Premonition" for some of that style. But her second most popular track is from that 2017 album, with 2.9 million streams, this is "Relax."
All ominous ambiance. No real breakdown or drop or exciting bit, just the thump and scary tension. That one is not my favorite, I'd rather listen to the more fun tracks like "DRUGS!" or "Premonition" or "Diluted Brains." Doubt I'd go watch this, but I've had some fun electronic shows in the past. Who knows.
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