Orwell’s Novel Writing Machine

Reverse Engineering‘s “Instant Art” is almost industrial in its use of distortion, mechanical sounds and its militant, marching beat. Visions of towering blocks of grey, wet buildings definitely come to mind. But there’s also a touch of the boom bap and it shares an atmosphere similar to that of subtler dubstep. “Art” has a simple but progressing lamellophone-sounding melody with a couple layers and some haunting vocals similar to Bjork. (When exactly to biting her become a ‘style’ of singing?) There’s even some turntablism, which adds to the composition a scratchy, analog melody that fits the song’s overall soundscape. You can definitely hear the Company Flow influences in this one. It was featured on the Swiss outfit’s newest release, Highly Complex Machinery, and was released through Jarring Effects records, which was cool enough to lace us with this download for you. (They also put out Filastine‘s Dirty Bomb.) Although you can’t cop Machinery on sites like Juno if you live in the US, you can buy it or any of the songs from it at CD1D, a French DIY platform. (Photo by March and Meffre).