DSCRD – Panopticon

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  • Alongside Polar Inertia, DSCRD are a central act on the French label DEMENT3D. Polar Inertia have transmitted their sci-fi sound primarily via long, slowly-unraveling 4/4 techno, while DSCRD's music works with more complex and dynamic percussion. DSCRD, a five-person group, keep things shorter, slower and heavier, with productions that occasionally feel like a modern take on the menacing aesthetic of Pan Sonic and Scorn. Here on Panopticon, the results are as intriguing as previous efforts. "Watch And Punish" stalks assertively, baring rows of teeth like a shark on the hunt, before falling back behind reverberated guitar tones by the track's end. "Seconde Zone" is even more rhythmically forceful, its kick drum and monotone bassline hitting like syncopated boot strikes to the backside. The EP's second half features more reduced fare. A light pitter-patter of drums and sparse bass hums underpin the meditative "L'Etale," whose squiggly chirps and beeps lead to a climactic swell of distortion. Last track "Austeria" summons a relatively smooth 4/4 groove, but only briefly—it spends most of the time clawing forward beneath yet another shroud of smoldering static and gloomy echoes. Panopticon is provocative addition to the catalog for both DSCRD and DEMENT3D.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Watch And Punish A2 Seconde Zone B1 L'etale B2 Austeria
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