CVBox "What You Hear Is What You Get" (Lunatic Records)

[€11 for Record // Edition of 300 // €3 for Download // https://lunaticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-you-hear-is-what-you-get-lun03]

Moderately paced electronic numbers that tow the line between electronica and 8bit music.   Somewhat of The Prodigy or something else I am unfamiliar with and somewhat of the Beastie Boys these instrumental songs will either have you in a trance or make your body dance.

The first of these four songs is actually exclusive to the record release as well, so if you want to hear that one you're going to have to buy the record because it will not come as a download for you.     After listening to this enough times and without the first track I can tell you that having "Hitchhike the Plain" kick things off does seem to help the overall flow of this.

While I realize that a U.S. dollar is not worth as much as a pound you have to think of this download as being a pound per song (which hence is more than a dollar per song, but still) so in that sense it does kind of work out for you but I'd still say you need that first movement for the complete experience and as any DJ in any club can tell you, yes, this will sound most excellent spinning on vinyl.

Gunwaif "Arpega" [single]

 [[ Name Your Price Download // https://gunwaif.bandcamp.com/track/arpega ]]

We open with the sound of water and trap-clap banging type of noise.   Female vocals come out and there are some sort of screwed vocals being manipulated behind it as well.   There is a lot going on here, and when you dissect each individual layer I bet it still sounds good, but together, yeah, this is taking music to a whole new level.

Horns come in to bring out a reference to Cake and it feels like they did this whole song from start to finish then ran it through some machine in post production to have it chopped up.   Some instrumental bits now verge on this 8bit glass type of sound.    The horns come back but the trumpet more closely resembles a car horn now.

The water from the beginning seemed to stop with the singing, but now as we are nearing the end it has returned.   Perhaps we are merely pouring some out for our lost friends, but I have no idea.    This song is like listening to an entire album of songs layered over one another but without it sounding like shit.    You need to hear this song to truly understand what music is about.