![]() Released on the great Baba Vanga label, it marries abrupt pitch shifts to grey smudges of noise and distorted, obtuse synth smears, with a rusty chassis of wayward drum splutters driving things forward.Ĭheck out Que Mala Suerte, the opening cut on Side B to get a glimpse of Bala at his madcap best. I first came across Uj Bala – aka Budapest musician Gábor Kovács – in last year’s Boka, which is a perfect point of departure for anyone starved of technoid clatter of the most degraded kind. I’d take a C90 full to the brim of grimy brainmelters over a lovingly mastered CD promising to take me on a ‘journey’ any day of the week. The format’s relatively low cost of entry, combined with the centrality of bootleg mixes and rave tapes in the beathead folk memory, provide sufficient prompts for those committed to the path of the kick drum to embrace the pull of the J-card. That the cassette world continues to produce a steady stream of bangers spawned from the original house/techno virus shouldn’t be a surprise. Új Bála: Maneki Necro & Friends ( self-released cassette and download) Boka ( Baba Vanga cassette and download)
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