h33t - Venetian Snares - 2009 - Filth [rockbox]

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk. He is known for making electronic music of various genres, mostly around Breakcore / IDM / Noise /Glitchcore and he is also known for being an unusually prolific artist that released records along the years on several different labels.
Funk's first release was the EP Greg Hates Car Culture, and released on History of the Future. His second album was Salt on Zhark International and
Fuck Canada/Fuck America with Stunt Rock for CLFST. When Mike Paradinas heard Greg Hates Car Culture, he immediately signed Funk for Planet Mu. The first Venetian Snares LP on Planet Mu, Making Orange Things (a co-production with Speedranch), was released in early 2001; following in short order were five more releases, all before the end of 2002.
Funk continued recording for a variety of labels, including Hymen Records, Peace Off Records, Addict Records, and Sublight Records, and has also recorded albums under the names Last Step and Vsnares, recorded singles under the names Last Step, Snares Man! and Snares, appeared on compilations under the names Ventriloquist Snakes, Last Step, Puff, and Senetian Vnares, and did a split with Fanny under the name BeeSnares.
His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel. Venetian Snares is said to have reinvented breakcore and set the stage for many other artists such as UndaCova, Xanopticon, Enduser and Datach'i.

Venetian Snares composes much of his music with trackers. Before he began to release his music commercially, he worked primarily with OctaMED on an Amiga 500. At some point prior to 2000, he began using a PC and the Windows port of OctaMED, MED Soundstudio. During 2003 and 2005 he also used Cubase in addition to MED. Venetian Snares currently uses Renoise
and has uploaded a video of his track 'Vache' playing in Renoise on Youtube. In a February 2003 interview, Funk was asked a question regarding the diverse mix of genres he draws upon in his music, a property which the interviewer labelled "eclecticism". Funk replied: "I prefer to call it Surrealism." Aaron is reportedly training an apprentice to keep his original, eclectic style of cuts alive.
His records' list is pretty long and you can find it here.
His latest record - Filth (under the Planet Mu label)- was promoted onto a release party at Corsica Studios from London on 3rd of April, 2009.

"No, Aaron Funk. Making your music crazy is not enough. You need to have
ideas in order to make a good album. Sure, Detrimentalist wasn't a
masterpiece, but it was a very good album that showed that you're taking
the IDM direction, without losing your amazing breakcore skills. Now, making an IDM album where the breakcore's quality is laughable compared to your standards, and the IDM parts are only average... well... it just doesn't work. This is kinda like Winnipeg without the lolz and the craziness.
By the way it's funny that this album has awesome titles, but they're given
to such generic tracks that there's absolutely no reason to bother listening.
Old-style VS without any ideas is a bad VS. Ok, there's a few moments of
madness in here, but nothing that makes me go "oooh" like some albums did before this (Doll Doll Doll, Cavalcade, etc.). This is nothing new, nor for
VS, nor for breakcore, nor for IDM.
Note to artists: don't go back to your roots if noone likes them. Older VS
fans may enjoy this, but those who liked Aaron Funk for his latest materials will despise this. It's boring to say the least. What a disappointment. And this from a hardcore VS fan."

"Wow...I just can't believe how restrained this whole album feels. I usually love Mr. Funk, but with an album title like Filth, and song titles like Chainsaw Fellatio, and Pussy Skull, I just feel like this album should be an incredibly huge mindfuck and instead it is just spaced out and boring. Truly a sad day for me."

Various reviewers of this last album - Filth - rate the album with 2 or 3 out
of 5. You rate it for yourself after and if you give it a try.