Genre: Techno / House / Hardcore / Drum'n'Bass
Label: Genetic Trance
CAT#: GT-2023-03-20
Year: 2023
Pudding Store is a very new collaborative project between Vziel (as Surrogate Sigma) and the Brazilian industrial hardcore/D'n'B artist, Cement Tea (and yes, I will include collab projects and bands in this listening list). Everything about this album screams old Archive.org dance music, which comes to no surprise as Vziel is old Archive.org club music, and Cement Tea is heavily inspired by that entire vein of music. First Pudding Store though I think really showcases a fresh side of both artists though, with it neither really sounding like either artist. Cement Tea told me that the album was intentionally produced very quickly, but despite its minimalism, you would never know due to have awesome the songs are. The album ranges between dubby minimal house, to thumping minimal techno full of rhythms that feel both organic and inorganic (especially in the track Curau, one of my favorites on the album).
The album is full of harder tunes as well, mostly in hardcore, but some drum'n'bass as well. These harder tracks really showcase Vziel's unusual (but good) way of handling gabber kicks. The tracks are weird and messy, but I love it, and its great for those who love haphazard and rough rave music. Even in these harder tracks, you can hear signature minimal techno sounds, giving them a really unique vibe. On these harder tracks, I especially love the track Rabri, a hard-hitting to the point minimal hardcore tune. Ebiripo is a very cool track too, full of noisy and dark atmospheres from Cement Tea's trademark sound, but combined with a more traditional and clean club rhythm, gives the song such a bizarre vibe that is really good. The closing track Annin Tofu is a really hypnotic minimal techno track with everything in it putting the listener into a trance, but not in a way that you would expect. All around, this is a really interesting project, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Listen to it here: https://genetictrance.bandcamp.com/album/first-pudding-store
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