This 4 track EP is a collection of collisions between Noisia and 3 of their favourite sparring partners: Phace, The Upbeats and Black Sun Empire.
The first track, "Cannonball" starts off with a chopped up 2 minute drumsolo, leading into the commanding voice of Will Ferrell announcing the drop with the characteristic misplaced triplet bass hit by shouting 'Cannonball' in a high-pitched whine. After a thorough drum n bass workout in the office, Noisia and Phace bring the guns (jack&tom) back to comedy in the best outro for a tune ever (it's science). Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they first named this outro San Diago, which of course in German means 'A Whale's Vagina'.
The second tune on the EP is the result of BSE and Noisia trying their hands at minimal electro house. After writing a Stephan Bodzin-inspired minimal track, they decided to use all the tricks they used in the 128 bpm experiment for a drum and bass tune. Out came an infusion obtained by putting minimal in drum and bass, and putting BSE in the Noisia studio. It might be the most atmospheric and melodic track on the EP, dancefloors go wild on it nonetheless!
Mudslide, a collaboration with The Upbeats, is the ADD child on a sugar high in the Vision 005 family. The drum patterns change every 16 bars after it's dropped, and the bass also appears in many guises throughout the progression of the track. This track is a personal favourite of Noisia, because of the wonderful atmospherics in the intro and outro ('how the fuck have we come up with a sound that nice?!'), the intricate rhythms of drum 'n bass in all the shapes and sizes they come in, and the big big cowbell leading into the second drop. More cowbell!
The last track on the EP, "Levitation" is written with Phace. Always when Noisia and Phace get together in the studio, things just start to lose weight and tunes just come floating into the room, gravity all nonsense now. As the crazy woman in the outro says: "The further we're removed from the central source, the more weird, mysterious, complicated and incomprehensible does Mother Nature appear to the finite human mind. And this is..." Firmly rooted on a steady 2-step beat, Noisia and Phace indulge in their obsession with science fiction and strange dirty sounds, occasionally pausing the nastiness for slapping their lederhosen in time to the song (the 4/4 clapping sound introducing the breakdown is a recording of them slapping their legs in the studio, the spontaneous native indian song they burst out just after this has been trimmed off to save your precious hearing).
DJ Support by:
Round up the usual suspects.
Audio available on:
The Vision Recordings Myspace Page
And in the The Vision September 07 Promo mix(Tracklist)
Expected release date (promo):
November 26th.
The artwork is a collision between Nik & Khoma.
Infusion!
