Synkro: Synkro
Sublight

For those who like their breakcore dark, pounding, and unrelenting, Winnipeg resident Sean Murray (aka Synkro) weighs in with ten blistering examples of fractured, industrial-strength electronics. Titles like “Zombie Flea” and “Horror Porn” leave little doubt as to the kind of convulsive and bulldozing grindcore that lies within, although Murray adds variety by slipping in some severely warped dancehall into “Gastronomic Thief” and giving a slightly funkier edge to the pulverized beats in “Decimotor.” He offsets the clattering cacophony of swirling breakbeats in “Shloggz” with clanking hip-hop breaks, and even adds some sweetly singing tones to “Dumelang,” though they're almost buried under its thunderous surface. And thankfully Murray isn't above an occasional humorous moment, as the grand piano sprinkles dropped into the middle of the caterwauling “Noise Complaint” attest.

November 2004