Aghast View: Carcinopest
- Payoff
- Fade Away
- Torrent Haze
- God's Fist
- Immunity
- Per/Version
- Intervention
- Down Race
- Truthlike
- God's Acre
- Immunity (Dub)
- Fadefuck
- Vaporize
Aghast View is the primary project of Fabricio Viscardi who also busies himself
with his bizarre Coldwave crossover project Biopsy. Fabricio must have the
worst luck in the world as this album was originally slated for release two
years ago on Cri Di Chat Records in Brazil before the unfortunate demise of the
label. Until just a few months ago Colorado label ElectroDeathTrip Records
planned to release the album. It was then abruptly dropped and surprisingly
picked up by the newly created Canadian Electro label Gashed who is a
subsidiary of Mimicry Distribution. As a result the music on this album is over
two years in the making and highly anticipated after the successful "Vapor
Eyes" remix album.
Musically, Aghast View is about as uniquely twisted in the Electro realm as its
twin project Biospy is in the Coldwave realm. There must be something in the
Brazilian water supply that encourages innovative music. Critics label Aghast
View as yet another Electro act, but I don't see it that way. The programming
is too complex to be redundant. While the band certainly utilize loops to
construct a great deal of their music, they constantly change tempo, mood, and
direction. The loops never become stale as they are constantly refreshed and
taken in new directions. They even restirtc their sparse use of movie sampling
lesser known sources. Aghast View is simply one of the best South American
Electro acts to hit North America.
Aghast View are:
Denis Rudge, Guilherme Piers & Fabricio Viscardi
Contact:
Gashed Records
P.O. Box 51018
Rpotyndall, Winnipeg
Manitoba, Canada
R2R 1Z8
E-mail: gashed@mimicry-dist.com
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