The Countless Hum And Mek Summat
Video Proof | Actuality | The Eurosuite | Candy Williams | Gum Takes Tooth | Nik Colk Void | Demdike Stare
Caroline Social Membership, Saltaire
Louder Than Warfare’s Andy Brown heads to Saltaire for a day of loud and experimental music courtesy of The Countless Hum and Mek Summat.
The Countless Hum have mixed forces with likeminded promotors and all-round creative instigators, Mek Summat, to ship a full day of loud and experimental music. It’s an actual smorgasbord of sonic delights from digital innovators Demdike Stare to abrasive post-punks The Eurosuite. Throw in some tasty vegan sizzling canines and also you’ve bought your self one hell of a day.
There’s some lovely, delicate music on the market, however typically all you really want is pure, undiluted filth. That is the place Video Proof is available in. With one stamp of a pedal, we’re hit by a wave of unholy suggestions earlier than being hurled right into a defiantly ugly wall of blast beats and indecipherable growling.
Repetition, brutality and satisfyingly belligerent basslines. It’s the sound of Napalm Dying having a sweaty, topless and considerably inebriated wrestling match with noise rock legends Drunk In Hell. And instantly, every little thing feels proper with the world.
That includes members of XAM Duo and a guitarist sporting a Coil t-shirt, indicators are encouraging for experimental trio REALITY. The bands weapons of alternative embrace a saxophone, a guitar and a large modular synth. A few of the gear seems prefer it’s come straight from the set of Physician Who.
What follows is a sheer wall of nightmare-inducing drone full with a wailing sax pulled straight from the ‘Invoice Pullman going wild in Misplaced Freeway’ handbook. Issues get good and intense. Plus, I’ve simply came upon that I’ve been saying Moog mistaken my complete grownup life. You reside and study.
With the stage in near-darkness, we’re launched to The Eurosuite. Singer Daniel Holloway appears like a person trapped in a field filled with itching powder and unhealthy vibes. The guitarist has a knack for brilliantly abrasive noise, whereas the synth participant and drummer aren’t averse to an unexpectedly danceable groove.
The four-piece harness an impressively frenetic sort of post-punk insanity. Think about The Pop Group frantically spinning in a washer, and also you’ll begin to get the image. And whereas among the songs can develop into a little bit indistinguishable, their dedication to chaos is simple.
Candy Williams commerce in a sort of post-rock influenced indie with an earnest coronary heart and shades of Slint. The five-piece have me hooked from the beginning with the regular, glistening hypnosis of Very Excessive Frequency. It’s an actual magnificence. Different highlights embrace the soiled, bluesy stomp of Ship Rope and the driving, fantastically titled – The Bangles From Hell.
“Occasion tunes”, quips singer Thomas Home after the sombre, skeletal class of Spares. Properly, it may not be wall-to-wall dancefloor fillers, however these songs most definitely join. It’s onerous to say what it’s that offers a band that additional particular one thing, however no matter it’s, Candy Williams have it in spades.
From the second the brooding, industrial electronics of Armistice attain my ears, I do know we’re in for a deal with with Gum Takes Tooth. Tom Fug mans a laptop computer as vocalist Jussi Brightmore roams the stage like some ceremonial shaman at a rave. The spirit of Coil is most definitely within the room.
The duo is briefly scuppered by an influence minimize, however that solely makes the second half of the efficiency all of the extra scrumptious. “Couldn’t give a fuck about unknown pleasures” purrs Brightmore as he flits between dancing and rolling round on the ground. You’ll be able to really feel that power within the crowd too. Darkish, ecstatic and fan-bloody-tastic.
Subsequent up, a set from digital artist – and someday Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti collaborator – Nik Colk Void. With a desk of wires and digital equipment, Void delivers a set of techno beats and sonic manipulation. The massive pink curtain behind the stage ripples in waves of approval as Void’s hypnotic sound slips and slides between worlds.
It’s the sort of set that creeps up on you, and sooner or later, I discover myself beginning to dance and sway alongside to the sound. You’ll be able to see this transformation in the remainder of the gang too, as she steadily lures us multi function beat at a time.
Final however most definitely not least, we’re handled to a set from Demdike Stare. The Manchester-based duo specialises in experimental digital sounds with a distinctly darkish disposition. Distortion quickly slides right into a delicate, horror soundtrack type full with wordless wails and ominous fragments of sound. The duo alternate smiles as their fingers impulsively glide over a desk of kit. Magicians at work.
I can really feel the vibration of the music rumble via my legs as a haunted pattern oozes from the audio system, “Please don’t go away me down on this world.” An successfully spooky and atmospheric set to carry the day to a detailed. And what a day it’s been. The Countless Hum and Mek Summat actually have outdone themselves with this one.
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The Countless Hum are on Fb, Instagram, Bluesky and their web site.
Mek Summat are on Fb and Instagram.
You’ll find all of the acts on Bandcamp: Video Proof | Actuality | The Eurosuite | Candy Williams | Gum Takes Tooth | Nik Colk Void | Demdike Stare
All photographs by Jim Mumby | You’ll find him on Fb and Instagram.
All phrases by Andy Brown. You’ll be able to go to his writer profile and skim extra of his evaluations for Louder Than Warfare HERE.
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