Premonition Magazine: Paradise / Brazilian Nightmare
This is a funny paradise that Zak Roberts offers here. His Eden, or at any rate the sound interpretation he does of it, evokes more the hot flames of hell than the silly paded landscape of some paradise… and so much for the better. His music is a compromise between breakbeats’ clubbing and bewildering and light layers which constitutes his tracks by giving them a density and above all an obvious originality. Cdatakill easily renews the breakcore genre by also including bits of other musical styles, a bit like Venetian Snares do. Some of his compositions deftly flirt with jungle while others alternately evoke sounds more dark ambient, industrial or rhythmic noise. In the opposite, the second CD (this is a double album) contrasts by its quietness, even if it still is in a very gloomy musical register… Brazilian Nightmare, that’s its name, is a CD-R re-edition released last year to one hundred units only on the American label Eupholus. Decidedly more ambient, it’s also opened to other musical genres including, for example, classical music (A Question of Purpose). If you didn’t know Cdatakill yet, here’s a good mean to get all his CD discography in one go (!), the musician was until then used to vinyl releases and especially to split singles, as his numerous collaborations with Resurrector, Abelcain, Minion, Low Entropy and soon Fanny prove. The two records have three remixes each, made each in turn by Somatic Responses (for an efficient re-reading of Cabrini Green, one of the best tracks of the triple compilation DHR Don’t Fuck with Us), Tarmvred, Detritus, Matt Demmon, Jason Snell and Stick.
