DARK WEB by Giant Claw
Dark Web doesn’t sound “like the internet.” It sounds like therapy for a generation who grew up with the internet, where the density and modularity of music has flourished at such a rate that we never get time alone with just one song or idea anymore. A latticework of strangely cohabitant pop partials, trap clicks, and piano rolls skipping around in bottomless MIDI-space; a clipped and thrifty collage, reflection, and superimposition of pop art through a trippy mash-up mechanism made of recycled SoundCloud footwork singles and YouTube R&B remixes. Dark Web’s fractured sonics work according to our current economy of space — they uncover shared emotional resonances across a variety of genres (trap, pop, classical music, vaporwave, footwork) at a stunning quickness. For a generation that by necessity has to be selective in its listening habits, this is less experimental than savvy. Dark Web is a document of bubbly eclecticism in 2014 passed from web guru Keith Rankin to a listener in need of a digital tour guide. A distinctly instructive art object, a confident curation of the weirdest parts of the now age.
– Adam Devlin (tinymixtapes)
Tracklist
| 1. | DARK WEB 001 | 4:13 |
| 2. | DARK WEB 002 | 4:14 |
| 3. | DARK WEB 003 | 5:01 |
| 4. | DARK WEB 004 | 3:14 |
| 5. | DARK WEB 005 | 5:17 |
| 6. | DARK WEB 006 | 5:39 |
| 7. | DARK WEB 007 | 5:38 |
| 8. | DARK WEB 008 | 8:00 |
Credits
Composed and Performed by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Keith Rankin and Ellen Thomas
Additional mixing by Andrew Humphrey
Mastering by James Webster
