Bleep

Very few are as successful as Moscow-based artist Alexey Devyanin when it comes to choosing telling album (and song) titles: Destroy Music, the latest full-length from his Gultskra Artikler project, discloses its very concept with its name. Following releases for Miami’s Other Electricities and a handful of albums for German label Miasmah, Destroy Music arrives via Mexican experimental imprint Umor Rex: Devyanin deconstructs and manipulates his samples here, subjects them to multiple transformation processes before layering its broken pieces to imaginative original works. With its pitched-down vocal fragments from a distance (‘D’), cinematic gun shots (‘Destr’) and eerie dissonant synth chords in the style of John Carpenter (‘Destroy’), his sources are inexhaustible – if ever uncovered, only through multiple listens.