When “smile entropy” begins you might think Estonian witch house project yottai is giving us a kinder, gentler experimental techno track. But when the vocals come in there is something alien yet welcoming amidst tonal swells, drones and processed beats. You feel like you’re listening to a song in reverse with a beat that moves in forward motion. The music video for the song makes this effect explicit with lyrics displayed in mirror image. While one vocal is distorted and almost in call and response fashion accenting the main vocal line the other sounds pitch shifted and effected to make it more a sound in the music more than words with any essential meaning. And that may be one aspect of the treatment of those vocals but overall the song takes you out of normal time, like a compound time signature strategy to the rhythm that opens up the possibilities of where the song can go and the moods it can evoke. The song is thus reminiscent of Tara the Android’s video for “I Feel Fantastic” as done by John Bergeron. Here the music is also subversive and sonically creative but not creepy, like if Tara went on to be an underground techno star after her pop career didn’t quite pan out as hoped. Watch the video for “smile entropy” on YouTube and follow yottai at the links below.
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