Microsoft Paint artist Jim'll Paint It has released an electronic music album. This news is a surprise and a total delight. If you could see my face right now, you would see a big wide smile (drawn using the marker pen tool in the brush dropdown menu).
His recording name is Eraserhead, the album is called Violence. It clearly comes from a passion for bass music, jungle, acid, IDM, breakcore and all the lovely stuff that has kept this music blog going for the past 21 years.
"This release is the realisation of a dream I’ve had since I was about 9 years old," says Jim, "recording noodlings from my Yamaha PSS-380 toy keyboard onto TDK tapes... This is the truest expression of self I’ve ever managed in any medium."
The collaborations are immense. D.A.R.E with Enduser is an apocalyptic mix of rolling breaks and industrial terror. Om Unit brings significant wub to the dark acid of Operation Hardtack. Nadia Rose is full of sass and brap-brap on title track Violence – referring to Eraserhead by saying "certain heads need erasing" is poetry.
He's got Beans spitting furiously over the bad-tempered jungle of Hurricane With Teeth - I was fond of his Antipop Consortium outfit back in the day. And I don't know what's going on with the the ambient screamo-rave hellscape of Monolith with Amée Chanter, but I like it. I really like it.
Even without the collaborative tracks, there's distressed acid, growling digital ambience and even a saxophone that sounds like a randy housefly. Better that than the other way round: if you had a fly in your living room buzzing like a saxophone, you'd have to move out.
I'm an electronic music guy. I'm a cartoon illustrations guy. This album is two of my worlds colliding. It's the equivalent of Banksy dropping a glitch album or Rembrandt launching a punk band or Francisco Goya joining an experimental kazoo ensemble.
If you want to get the album, you can download it via Microsoft Pai-- oh wait, no, that's not how music works. You can stream it on Bandcamp and bag a copy on digital, vinyl or cassette.
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