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Benjamin John Power may be better known for his work with Andrew Hung as F*** Buttons. F*** Buttons specializes in a mix of euphoric, meditative electronic music coupled with the intensity of electronic noise music.<\/p>\nBenjamin John Power may be better known for his work with Andrew Hung as F*** Buttons. F*** Buttons specializes in a mix of euphoric, meditative electronic music coupled with the intensity of electronic noise music.<\/p>\n
Like much of F*** Button\u2019s work, Blanck Mass\u2019 World Eater<\/em> definitely straddles the line between melodic and meditative on one hand, and intense and noisy on the other. However, the album seems to alternate between more noisy tracks and more melodic tracks.<\/p>\n \u201cRhesus Negative\u201d is an intense, fast-paced, hallucination-inducing trip of industrial noise, but with some respite via an arpeggiated chord progression that pops up a couple of times. Likewise, \u201cRat\u201d starts out rather intensely with a pounding beat and accompanying noise, but some repetitive keyboard lines throughout the song subdue that intensity.<\/p>\n On the other hand are tracks like \u201cPlease\u201d, \u201cSilent Treatment\u201d, and \u201cHive Mind\u201d are beat-driven, more melodic, but at the same time are a little dark or foreboding. The aforementioned tracks almost immediately reminded of witch house artists like Holy Other, oOoOO, and Salem.<\/p>\n Despite the intimidating album title and cover, the music isn\u2019t nearly as dark as one might be expecting. However, there is a quality in many of these songs that seems to be a plea for absolution, as if asking forgiveness for some wrongdoing. The album description reads that \u201c[we] understand our hard-wired primal urges & why they exist in an evolutionary sense\u201d and that \u201cwe should be able to recognize these genetic hangovers & control them\u201d, but \u201c[unfortunately], this isn\u2019t the case. Recent global events prove this. The human race is consuming itself.\u201d This may be what the plea for absolution is referring to: our collective guilt for the world\u2019s current state of affairs. We are the world eater. Like his main project F*** Buttons, Benjamin John Power’s Blanck Mass straddles the line between the melodic and the noisy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6019,"featured_media":57851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[7029,7289,7290,4086,7030],"class_list":["post-57850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","tag-blanck-mass","tag-breakfast-for-noiselovers","tag-harshing-my-noise-levels","tag-josh-gaston","tag-world-eater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blanckmasscover_sq-d0853530a0fccffb9bbe84308b98e267831eb914-s300-c85.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRecommended If You Like: F*** Buttons, Andrew Hung, Holy Other, oOoOO, Salem, HEALTH, Ben Frost, Emptyset, Haxan Cloak
\nRecommended Tracks: 3 (Please), 5 (Silent Treatment), 7 (Hive Mind) for Breakfast for Beatlovers, 2 (Rhesus Negative) and 4 (Rat) for noisier sets
\nDo Not Play: avoid 6 (Minnesota\/Eas Fors\/Naked) unless you\u2019re doing an ambient\/noise\/drone set and 1 (John Doe\u2019s Carnival of Errors) as it\u2019s basically an intro
\nWritten by Josh Gaston on 04\/11\/2017 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"