Experimental Buffalo producer Ay Fast has teamed up with ZKW to release a duel-sided cassette via Cleveland based label, A Soundesign Recording. The first side, Dire Docks, listens like an exquisitely rendered collection of sonic montages. Generously packed are glitchy static screams, warped samples, distorted percussion and warbling filter manipulations. Melodic motifs appear, disappear, and re-emerge throughout the dissonant composition which, according to Adrian Bertolone (Ay Fast), is part homage to living in Buffalo.
ZVK's end, Summa Cum Laude, starts off with a rumbling, almost ceremonial-like introduction. It continues onto various stages of transgression and release, symphonic melodies are juxtaposed with exotic audio clips, sonic rings are arranged with the type of ghostly resonance radiators emit. I'm tempted to call it a carnival of sardonic sound production.
ay fast is so dope for real