Track Listing

1. Frictional Nevada
2. Beverly's Potatoe Orchestra
3. Shoot Myself
4. Duffy
5. Cabbage
6. Hospitality

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211235 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Bring in the noise, bring in the FUNK
A couple months have passed, which means that it must be time for another Venetian Snares release. Honestly, I sometimes wonder whether Aaron Funk is some sort of cyborg who can live on only 2 hours or sleep or so a night based on how much music he releases, especially given his fairly consistent output. The Hospitality EP basically continues right where his last album (Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms) left off, with more of his insanely-detailed beat programming work offset with his more recent attention to more melodic pieces.

"Frictional Nevada" opens the short release (six tracks and just over twenty-five minutes of music), and the five minute track is one of the best things he's done. Over the course of the first two minutes (between one third and one half of the total run length), he layers warm synths, horns, strings, and some keyboard melodies into a delightful swell before an absolutely hammering blast of drum programming shreds the track to bits. From there, those two pieces of the track fight like Jekyll and Hyde, with drum bursts overtaken by more melodic swoons and vice-versa.

"Beverly's Potatoe Orchestra" follows, and it's more standard fare, with rapid-fire beat blurts chunking apart over distorted vocals and playful synth melodies, while "Shoot Myself" again brings some string-synth swells and quieter moments in alongside a short section of spitfire beats. The highlight on the remainder of the EP is the six-minute mind-bender of "Duffy," which takes delight in throwing everything and the kitchen sink into the mix as 8-bit madness, filtered vocal samples, sub-rattling low-end blasts, and of course berserk beats keep the track slamming for its entirety. While it's a little more inconsistent than some of his previous work, there are still enough head-spinning moments on this release to make it worth recommending.

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Not your average VSnares
I can't even count the amount of album's and EP's Venetian Snares has produced, but when something spectacular is released by him it shines in a different light. Hospitality, in my opinion, seems to be more thoroughly thought out opposed to his mess of beats in the earlier days. If you liked Cavalcade, you'll probably like this. Sticking with his complex time signatures, Hospitality features 7/8 and other odd time signatures causing chaos and confusion to flow through your ears.

Frictional Nevada takes what seems to be a flanger on an epic orchestral movement that leads into a burst trembling snares and a high pitched oscillator. Because every measure begins one beat before your average time signature, it's hard to catch up with; it's what makes his music interesting and captivating. 32nds of electronic bits drill into presence on Duffy which turns into a masterpiece of all of Venetian Snares' work. The distorted voice sample around half way through the song creates an eerie atmosphere which really makes this piece what it is. Hospitality is another one of my all time favorites.

This is the best I've heard from Venetian Snares.