DARK WEB, by Giant Claw

DARK WEB

by Giant Claw

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Musically Proper DARK WEB feels like an evolution of Plunderphonics — look up the album Plexure by John Oswald — but it's more of a meditation on sampling and mashing cultures. I love the R&B textures and driving tempos. Favorite track: DARK WEB 008.

Ice Genesis This is so weird and unique, feels smooth and it's just amazing. Favorite track: DARK WEB 002.

crybaby16661 like nothing I've heard before. I like it. just the strangeness of it all is great from start to finish Favorite track: DARK WEB 008.

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1.	DARK WEB 001 04:12	buy track
2.	DARK WEB 002 04:14	buy track
3.	DARK WEB 003 05:00	buy track
4.	DARK WEB 004 03:13	buy track
5.	DARK WEB 005 05:17	buy track
6.	DARK WEB 006 05:38	buy track
7.	DARK WEB 007 05:37	buy track
8.	DARK WEB 008 07:59	buy track

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Dark Web doesn’t sound “like the internet.” It sounds like therapy for a generation who grew up with the internet, where the density and modularity of music has flourished at such a rate that we never get time alone with just one song or idea anymore. A latticework of strangely cohabitant pop partials, trap clicks, and piano rolls skipping around in bottomless MIDI-space; a clipped and thrifty collage, reflection, and superimposition of pop art through a trippy mash-up mechanism made of recycled SoundCloud footwork singles and YouTube R&B remixes. Dark Web’s fractured sonics work according to our current economy of space — they uncover shared emotional resonances across a variety of genres (trap, pop, classical music, vaporwave, footwork) at a stunning quickness. For a generation that by necessity has to be selective in its listening habits, this is less experimental than savvy. Dark Web is a document of bubbly eclecticism in 2014 passed from web guru Keith Rankin to a listener in need of a digital tour guide. A distinctly instructive art object, a confident curation of the weirdest parts of the now age.
– Adam Devlin (tinymixtapes)

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released September 30, 2014

Composed and Performed by Keith Rankin

Visual art by Keith Rankin and Ellen Thomas

Additional mixing by Andrew Humphrey
Mastering by James Webster

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Musician and visual artist Keith Rankin.

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