Citty - Amounts
Right, off to Spain now…
With the Circular Limited label.
If I squint hard at the picture I can tell you this is a collaboration by Citty with Modvs, TVM and Michal Jablonski.
“Citty is live modular techno project founded by Martin Vodicka. Created to explore the sound possibilities of our times, to examine the effect of sound hypnosis on living subjects, to create impressions of non-existent worlds by using unheard atmospheres and modulation of noise. The variety of sounds Citty composes goes from dark ambient atmospheres and drones to hypnotic techno including not straight rhythms and patterns combined with distortions.”
“His live show consists in a variety of drum machines, samplers and modular synthesizers. Due to improvisation with modular synth on stage you can be surprised by weird melodies and crazy noises which makes each performance unique.
Citty started in 2014 although Martin is in music industry for more than 10 years. Together with Segment he organizes “Come In” a series of Techno events in Czech Republic. He also host a series of modular workshops and classes. As Citty he already worked with artists like MODVS, Michal Jablonski or The Variable Man.”
The first track rises up like something from a Naked City meets Tron remake and has me nodding my head once we finish docking in the carbon storm that batters the outside of the sprawl.
There is a same-y quality to this as a lot of people are plying similar dark sounds. But I am not complaining too much as I have a propensity to kill tracks.
Second track picks it up and we’re rattling through the ’80s, neon shadows flickering across our perpetually frowning heroine’s face. It hints of a peak but never fully delivers, remaining, the car into the city. Albeit, a future car. A large star freighter called Orphx pulls off out of dock in a cinematic wink and nod and you notice the port is called Stroboscopic.
No one is complaining though. ‘Latest Ten’ is a great track.
It’s hard for me to take a track called tomato seriously and there is wondering if this is a Daft Punk reference.
But it’s a definite highlight. There’s a definite Czech & Polish air to this, that I cannot quite explain past knowing what was tomato and shut up, we missed a bit of exposition.
Listen to Jablonski’s opening melancholy of his remix of Tomato.
I enjoyed this and have added it to my wish list.
This is music for writing to.
(At some point I would love to know if Job Karma was an influence)
released June 8, 2017
