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 Dsic, also known as Greg Godwin, is a Bristol-based noise artist that employs a wide range of influences and sound sources. Love City and the miniDsic EP, both released through Lf Records, weave their way through noise, drone, glitch, ambient and microsound, with complete freedom to change direction at any point within a track. At a little over 50 minutes, Love City features 10 tracks. The first, Love City, is an unpredictable sputtering piece that chicanes through harsh landscapes until melting away into silence. Scourgeriver is shorter but more intense, employing a dense wall of shard-like noise that gradually reveals underlying rhythms and deep repetition. By track 3, Forever Forever, we're into darker territory, with different flavours of noise forming intricate patterns around a deep central drone. Track 4, Ambient Deathbed feels similar to recent microsound and glitch ambience, before being plunged into more immersive and claustrophobic processing. Bless Limbs Torn Away uses an unidentifiable but tantalisingly familiar snippet of a song, layered with other heavily processed and digitally distorted sounds. This track makes heavy use of drones, and despite being structurally unpredictable, feels well-balanced and rewarding on repeated listens. After the maelstrom of the previous tracks, Flexitime is a contrasting affair that quietly introduces itself until eventually revealing a glitchy drone with hidden melodic depths. Tracks 7 and 8, Feverkick and Ambient Deathbed II, again reveal tiny scraps of the original source samples, before washing them away with noise. Love Is The Final Solution appears to draw on samples from a more atypical ambient heritage to build subdued drones. This blends into Final, a quieter piece that cycles though a variety of processed noise. Love City appears to form a coherent whole, rather than an assortment of pieces. Taken holistically, Love City is rewarding listening for the noise connoisseur, with hidden depths and sonic gems that reveal themselves through a haze of experimentation. To hear Godwin's work for free online, visit his Audio Web-Log, which includes MP3s of a similar style to Love City, otherwise visit Lf Records to purchase CDs. Review by Alex Young
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