- Harry Wright wants to make club culture more accessible. He doesn't care for DJ hierarchies, nor does he fetishise gear. That said, he uses a ton of it in Giant Swan, his raucous improv techno band with Robin Stewart. Wright takes a more primitive approach on Witness, his first solo record as Mun Sing. "I like the idea of using really basic common materials like GarageBand 09," he's said. Mun Sing is therefore a very different beast to Giant Swan, with a more obvious club focus.
Witness might be a lurching UK bass EP in industrial disguise. Some of the drums lean towards tribal, offering blasts of woody resonances in an otherwise grimly metallic sound world. The programming is remorseless, if a little flat. The record hits a rattling, juke-tinged peak on "Eye" and drops into technoid head nod on "An Illusion." All that dull hammering leaves you exhausted by the time you get to Tomás Urquieta's remix, which doesn't deviate much from the format. The record is well produced and the concept is admirable, but compared to the unfettered and supremely volatile riot of Giant Swan, Witness is a little disappointing. Even so, let's not write off the new project just yet.
Lista de títulos01. Revenge
02. Eye
03. An Illusion
04. Emerald
05. Revenge (Tomás Urquieta Remix)