TIRK 015: SYCLOPS - THE FLY
Produced, Arranged, Spanked, Fondled, Fudge Packed, & Groped By Maurice Fulton, 'The Fly' is the second Syclops release on Tirk, and by Christ it's another head fuck.
With Syclops, Maurice Fulton directs some mystery session musicians, re-playing and chopping their improvisations. In the process Fulton blurs the boundaries between live and electronic, to conjure up a new music that is both strange and utterly, undeniably, brilliant..
Electronic clicks, drum snaps, whiplash cracks and rising, swelling jets of noise, melting into a beautiful spaced out synth and piano outro. All this overlaid with the nagging, repeat electro hook from the best horror soundtracks.
With this Syclops release Maurice Fulton has matched (and surpassed?) the best in modern electronic music production - DFA's rough assedness, Lindstrom's space disco, Fourtet's homespun electronics edging into chaos - creating a sound that is truly unique.