whitelight wrote:Haha, just wanna say that I just got the last Venetian album, and fuck, I'm blown away.
He moved a bit away from "noisy breaky mindfuck" to go near a more "IDMish acidcore brainmelt", wich I really like.
That's probably why lots of his breakcore fans don't really like it (well, from what I heard on another forum).
That's what makes lots of breakcore uninteresting: the intention to fuck up people's ears without any substance. I like intelligent, complex breakcore. Drumcorps? Ebola? Venetian Snares? Count me in.
IMO, there hasn't been alot of truely standout breakcore in the past few years. Seems like alot of artists either broadened their palette,
or vastly slowed down. There haven't been a ton of new, creative folks like there were from the end of the 90s til the mid 00's. Also, I think
due to the way the scene (and music distro) has evolved - most artists focus on their live sets as opposed to putting out releases. Some of my favorite artists
of the past few years destroy live, but have very few recent releases (eustacian, abelcain/davros, xanopticon, surchai, split horizon, j.stat, capslock, gizmode )
I think even VSnare's earliest work was pretty intelligent and complex (HotF record, PrintF, etc). He's had a few noisy/speedcore digressions along the way,
but IMO, even those were pretty outstanding. His production values have definitely gotten better and some of his newer stuff is softer for sure, but i don't find it more interesting.
Of course, like everything...taste and mileage vary.