Death Tape Super Bass - Olympus DS-330
Released: January 30 With Olympus DS-330 , Death Tape Super Bass brings us another gritty collection of tracks filled with noise, synths, dirty drums, and some odd selections of found sounds from an unlabeled field recorder. As always, the percussion is what drives a good chunk of the tracks with a combination growling bass hits and crispy fried snares and hats. Meanwhile we also get some entirely synth-driven pieces in between the onslaught of drums, like on “There’s a Whole Market” which is one of the sparsest track here all far as elements present. It’s centered around this piece of a voice recording that is ostensibly saying the title of the song, but it’s looped and mangled in such a way as to be nearly indecipherable and coming across as a bizarre chant that is accompanied by a single heavily distorted synth. It’s effective in pushing the album forward and goes on just long enough to break from the heavy drums that came off of “Don’t Stop,” which positively slams you with th...
