Club Furies

Whenever we are confronted with an art review, and in general, with any encounter with art, we are faced with the following problem: interpreting what the artist makes available to us. This opens a pendulum in which on one side the artist provides us with all the tools of interpretation; and on the other, in which everything is interpreted by the audience. And we must be clear that when an artist has finished his work and makes it available to the audience, it ceases to belong to him. Not because it ceases to be his property, but because the meaning that the artist imbues it with is open to contingent interpretation.

In this sense, it is always tricky for me to find the right and precise words about the meaning of a work, especially if it is a sound work. In the first place, because the artist is a genius -not just anyone is. And secondly, because an artistic work involves effort and dedication. Nevertheless, there will always be some contingency when it comes to interpreting the art that is made available to us. This time it is one of the last published works of cat can do, that Canadian artist, currently based in Spain (Alicante), of which we have already presented a Premiere, and that with each work we listen to, we like more and more.

The machines and improvisation must accompany a creative artistic sense to make the established a novelty, that with which art plays constantly, which allows, in this case, electronic music to show off as art. One of the genres that allow us to observe the knob twist that we like so much is acid, for its representative sonorous screeching. Acid Ave plays with it, the homonymous track and the one that opens this sonorous universe.

Constant twist; sometimes more, sometimes less. But always with the characteristic cat can do sound. Electricity in constant effervescence, and a fresh sound design that is always revitalizing. Chord Stutter brings with it a more classical sound, with varied temporal atmospheres and nocturnal structures. These temporal cracks freeze time, lighten it, and delicately lift us into the air. While in the background, percussions and electric waves have an endless carnival party.

In the meantime, time returns to its regular forms, with which we also descend from the temporary cloud that had been created. The sound slows down slightly, while the cables feel a natural exhaustion and their colors are worn out. Dancing Ivory is the track that ends up raising to the skies the sonorous atmospheres of this work. The carefree and freshness are subjugated to sophistication and a more surgical design, without disengaging from the sound raised throughout the release.

The flight through the high layers of the sky comes to graze the stars of the universe, of which we reach to brush their dust in a dance between deep human emotions and perennial and very well grounded sounds. After the sound comes the silence, which comes soon, leaving us expectant. The uncoupled times now have their sights fixed on one of them.

The past is brought up to date in the present in Holy shit man! That’s Jupiter! with nostalgic strands and a lot of lightness in the instrumentation. After the disappointment of the projections of electronic music, and of society in general, that technology would lead us to a better society, the sound has decided to settle in other worlds. In this way, sound is underpinned by a symbiosis of longing pasts amidst present projections, those that see other planets and stars. The rest is to contemplate and become one with the sound.

Roundabout takes up explicitly what the previous track had demarcated in its aftermath. A cut for relaxation and total immersion. Position your speakers on both sides of your ears; leave any technological device behind; and play this track, without any distraction in between. It will take you to a rather peaceful trance and to spring hillsides where grass and flowers gently brush our skin. Here the electricity is lost in nature, remaining latent.

The Scenic Route is the experimental track of the work. It is the consequence of that artistic process in which the artist’s talent lets go with the materials at his disposal, in this case, the machines. And, even in that chaotic flow, the concept behind it is still well identified. Probably what he is doing is a panorama of all the elements of the work, which goes through the Acid, the uncontrolled, the patience, the intensity, the delirium, and the calm. All this in different unitary complexes, something like the creation of the unity of the difference. In the end, it is an exceptional cut to close, because it leaves us thrilled, excited, and edified.

Another great work from our favorite cat, whose love for cats is also a love for the purest electronica, one that doesn’t need so much brains but confidence in artistic skills. Those that undoubtedly cat can do possess in spades. This time it was by Insane Industry Recordings, which has hit the nail on the head with Acid Ave. Grab your copy!

Artist: cat can do
Title: Acid Ave EP
Label: Insane Industry Recordings
Genre: Techno / Industrial
Format: Digital
Catalogue: II257D

Release Date: March 27th. 2025
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Tracklist
A1. Acid Ave
A2. Chord Stutter
B1. Dancing Ivory
B2. Holy Shit Man! That’s Jupiter!
C1. Roundabout
C2. The Scenic Route

Written & Produced by Sean Parker
Mastered by Jesse Creed at CanMARC
Layout by Soft Porn
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