Petter B, be just one of those musicians proving that anything arpeggiated, is the way the apocalypse will begin.
His new EP, ‘Be Eternal’, distributed through ‘Drumcode’, is a fascinating (small) body of work, that really does add as much climax as possible to the most basic, but equally bombastic of sounds. Dark and menacing, melodic and maddening, it is an EP that screams, shouts and stands on two feet with a bold clarity of life only few hedonists can participate with feeling.
The opening track, collaboration between Petter B, John H and M.E.E.O, is a non-stop building-block of synth stabs, bass bruises and broken bones, easily seeing the prettiness in the dark, and the ugliness in staying still. It’s a tune full of life, motion and adrenaline pumping through every available vein in an opiate drone of power. ‘Bergsjon Eternal’ is a science-fiction appreciated piece of magic that elevates and uplifts anything, anybody is comes across in a stroke of smooth, sinister goodness. Second gem, ‘Voltage Controlled Time’, again toys with the sequences, the rhythmic rhymes of melody and brilliance of repetition when only the slightest touches of new ideas creep into the backdrop of a song. Certainly a monster of a track, certainly one that hasn’t been fed, and is waiting to hunt, the bubbling tribal anthems, the torn and distorted synthesizer gunshots, the primitive orchestras of nothing but basses that can break bones as well as doors, is a superb way to start and finish a song, clever in every way.
The last track of the EP, ‘Loggbay Session B’, an itching issue of signals mixing in the airways just above the atmosphere of a huge club that revolves around its own orbit because of how heavy the tune is. Fidgeting bits and pieces of crystal percussion, accented breaths that tell a story of someone who is prepared to fight for more, and an atmospheric mist that coats the lights in the distant space, truly adds some pull, but also pressure to the otherwise turbulent number. Heavy, but the right amount of heaviness, grants us the ability to defy gravity, and gravitate to a place where the rules are nothing but dance, and get utterly fucked with people you’ve just met, but are now your best friends.
Overall a fine addition to the electronic world, infectious, fantastic, new and polished, melodic and magical. What a better way to widen eyes, as well as open minds and put smiles on certain faces, than to listen to a spiralling staircase of sounds, that guarantee anything can go right, when the music is fucking good.
Buy the release here.
Ryan Walker
