White Car EP

White Car

White Car EP

 

2010

  • MWX025

White Car is an in­dustri­al space funk out­fit based in Chicago, IL. The duo is com­prised of Elon Katz, who writes, re­cords and pro­duces the music and Orion Mar­tin who plays live electronic per­cuss­ion. The music utilizes clas­sic heavy hitt­ing EBM rhy­thms and early di­git­al syn­thesis while in­teg­rat­ing ideas of pop sen­sibil­ity, post-punk funk and minim­al synth music.

Their debut self-titled EP is a re­cord of ec­centric para­noia and re­strained em­o­tion, charac­terized by a voice of hus­hed stamm­ers and deep ob­ses­sive mur­murs. The re­cord’s lyr­ical con­tent ex­plores ideas of hy­pot­hesized rea­l­ity and the per­ceived na­ture of truth, in­stinctive de­sires in re­la­tion to the con­cept of love, and the apat­hetic guilt of other’s mania and pain. The skeleton of the music is created by a solid rhy­thmic foun­da­tion of funk, vin­tage electro and proto-industrial re­fer­ences. Em­ploy­ing the empty spaces of these grooves is an as­sort­ment of spon­taneous­ly placed clamor­ous bursts, chugg­ing an­alog ar­peggios, faux brass sec­tions and layered electronic percus- sion. Many of the re­cord’s sounds might be de­emed “un­us­able” by con­tem­pora­ry pro­duc­tion stan­dards, yet White Car dis­cov­ers ways to make sense of tones like electric piano, sampled turnt­able scratches, vocal scat and orchestra hits. The humor of the sound palet­te is de­liberate­ly used to ident­ify a carica­ture of fear and dark­ness.

Li­mited quant­ity avail­able, high­ly re­com­mended.