Dryft - Ventricle

Ventricle is the latest album from Mike Cadoo's long dormant Dryft side-project. The album deviates from Cadoo's current main project Bitcrush just as previous Dryft efforts strayed from his previous group Gridlock. This time, however, it’s fair to describe Dryft as bearing more resemblance to Cadoo’s past than to any passing flirtation with fringe genres. Moreover, like a message in a bottle, it is as though all that Cadoo had failed to completely express through Gridlock had been stored away subconsciously and now, as Ventricle, that bottle has finally washed ashore. While Cadoo is the first to acknowledge the stylistic similarities between Ventricle and his contributions to Gridlock, he warns against making specific comparisons. This is new music. Caveats aside, the massive, enveloping drones and rusty clatter that anchored his former band are omnipresent. Powered by overdriven, symphonic walls of slowly evolving melodies matched with rhythms that recall the drum-n-bass of Cell (2000), the industrial battery of Gridlock and the jammed funk of his Mytotyc Exyt EP (2002), Ventricle is a true opus that offers revolution and retrospective in one. No matter the degree of hyperbole applied, the term “side-project” has never felt more out of place.

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Derail posted this comment on Saturday, 06.26.10 @ 08:08am

Fuck yes.

pir posted this comment on Monday, 06.28.10 @ 00:10am

oooo oooo oooh my good it is here!

era posted this comment on Monday, 06.28.10 @ 12:23pm

finally !!! im anxious for the long wait...

Paul posted this comment on Tuesday, 06.29.10 @ 01:54am

Yeah... I second that, finally! Woohoo...

Juan posted this comment on Wednesday, 06.30.10 @ 08:37am

Hechaba de menos estas emociones.....Gracias Sr. Mike

Jim posted this comment on Wednesday, 06.30.10 @ 19:01pm

I've enjoyed electronic-based music for years, but rarely am I actually "moved" by it. Judging by how moved I was just listening to the short samples posted here, I'm not sure I can handle the full album! (I'll take my chances, though). Listening to the sample for "recalcify," I could immediately tell this was going to be a work of brilliance and beauty, on par with any other former release. Then I heard "vapours and waste," and realized that this was not simply on par -- this is a whole new apex. September cannot arrive quickly enough...

Amir posted this comment on Wednesday, 06.30.10 @ 23:24pm

This is the SHIT !! Spectacular !!

pir posted this comment on Sunday, 07.4.10 @ 00:13am

is Amir the other one Mike for gridlock? :D

mybright posted this comment on Thursday, 07.8.10 @ 09:48am

This sounds amazing!

mybright posted this comment on Thursday, 07.8.10 @ 09:48am

This sounds amazing!

Seamus posted this comment on Thursday, 07.8.10 @ 13:47pm

What is a Gridlock? ;P

BTW this sounds fucking incredible.

bond posted this comment on Thursday, 07.8.10 @ 14:00pm

new artwork please

Brian posted this comment on Friday, 07.9.10 @ 11:12am

Excellent news!!!!

Funky Koval posted this comment on Friday, 07.9.10 @ 15:11pm

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Finally!

Sever posted this comment on Friday, 07.9.10 @ 17:13pm

YES!!!!

Derail posted this comment on Tuesday, 07.20.10 @ 16:02pm

Yeah "Vapours and Waste" sounds like the discovery of a new universe. Amazing.

rgrant posted this comment on Monday, 07.26.10 @ 20:54pm

what, september....damn it, i want it now!

Risotto posted this comment on Tuesday, 08.3.10 @ 06:02am

i think this is little bit better that bitcrush :/
for me is mutch more emocional.
Every Mike song have a ghost

	recalcify
	marked velotin
	knives as gifts
	no bargains, no pleas (feat. xiescive)
	vector step (regeneration)
	vapours and waste
	transmission
	...and again
	(re)prise

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