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Duchamp-Killer’s Video For Psychedelic IDM Track “Be Strong now and ever” is Like an Analog Video Dream Sequence

For the full effect of Duchamp-Killer’s “Be strong now and ever” definitely watch the psychedelic music video that embodies the glitches and high contrast sounds in visual form. A shuffling beat flows under other more industrial rhythms, swells of distorted synth, warping melodic keyboard sounds, burbling tones, bass drones and processed vocal samples. It has the aesthetic of that fusion of underground cinema shot on VHS and 2000s computer video games and art with an endless flow of visual collages paired with music perfectly aligned with its almost free form presentation of creative impulses. At times it comes across like what a live feed from a cybernetic jack from a hacker in a cyberpunk novel would look and sound like if that hacker found a creative outlet of running a form of a silent rave. Fans of 90s IDM especially Download (the long running project of cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy and others) will appreciate the level of sonic detail and the otherworldly retrofuturist vibe here. Watch the video for “Be strong now and ever” on YouTube and follow Duchamp-Killer at the links provided.

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Duchamp-Killer Created a Self-Decomposing Sonic Collage Automaton for “Live in the sounds”

Duchamp-Killer’s new single “Life in the sounds” is a bit like taking a journey through the composer’s usual Rube Goldberg-esque soundscape: looped, introspective guitar, sampled bubbles, various percussive sounds, rain stick, processed bird sounds echoing. All with a sense of motion and at one point the whole thing sounds like it’s being played in reverse order with some signal processing indicating the same. Like an ever evolving collage of sounds suggesting a tropical setting at twilight. It is as mysterious as it is playful, as simple as its aggregate of sounds reveals an expressive complexity that never seems overwhelming. And then toward the end this song that seems to be its own sonic ecosystem starts to unravel in organic fashion and dissolve into its component parts. Listen to “Life in the sounds” on Soundcloud and connect with Duchamp-Killer at the links below.

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The Frenetic Cool of Duchamp-Killer’s “BDA – Domestic affairs” is Like the Soundtrack to a Noir Set in a Bustling City

There is an undercurrent of menace and unease in Duchamp-Killer’s song “BDA – Domestic affairs.” The trumpet sample that runs through with the fragmented and off-kilter piano loop and the piano figure near the beginning that goes off of any standard melody with the start and stop percussion all while a spectral drone resonates underneath identifies this as a jazz song in the expanded sense of that genre. Like an experimental, samples based jazz song that could serve as the opening sequence soundtrack to a gritty modern noir. Though highly detailed and packed with musical elements the song has a cool vibe that would suit an Ed Brubaker graphic novel set in a busy metropolis rather than the sleepy settings and quiet, dark underbelly environs that are usual for him. Listen to “BDA – Domestic affairs” on Soundcloud.