MySpace Trawl - Venetian Snares

Here at hecklerspray, we know what’s good and what's utter rubbish. We don’t keep secrets either and we like to share our knowledge with you, the geeks people of the World Wide Web.

In this feature - which amazingly still hasn’t gone from once a week to whenever we can be arsed - we aim to arm you with amazingly good sounds that you maybe didn't even know existed, but that others will probably perceive as artistic bollocks. Hell, what do they know? Not as much as us, that’s for sure. And who else would bleat on about Venetian Snares as much as we’re about to? 

Ever been to a house party under the naive impression that whoever’s throwing it is going to make it the best one your street has ever seen, one that'll go down in history? Well, we have and unfortunately a lot of them don’t live up to the high standard we expect. Granted, they're nothing like anything you’ll see on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 as no-one we know really has the money or inclination to make themselves look like a bratty prick on national TV. Sod spending £100,000 on party, most party budgets we’ve seen stretch to maybe £100 tops. And they have Twister. 

All parties need the same few measly ingredients to vaguely make them interesting. When you’re young, it is essential that someone brings alcohol along. Food is another important aspect of a party. Everyone who’s young has to gorge themselves on pizza at parties. It’s the unwritten eleventh commandment and we fully endorse it, simply because it makes cockney wanker Jamie Oliver cry in to his garden salad. But the key element at a party which will either condemn you to either being crowned one of the coolest kids in the playground, or spending your break and lunchtimes with that RE teacher with paedophilic tendencies is your music selection. Don’t bother raiding the attic in the vain hope of getting music tips from your parents' vinyl collection unless you want to look like a total knob. The hits of The Osmonds and Cliff Richard won’t do you any favours. But we have something to really get a crowd going. From now on, no party is complete without the sounds of Venetian Snares. 

Venetian Snares fall into the category classed as breakcore. Break what? Yes, breakcore. The simplest way for us to describe this probable new genre to you - without us going all nerdy - is for you to imagine a drum & bass song. Now, capture this song in your mind and picture it ten times faster. Pretty insane right? Now cut the song to pieces, shoddily stick it back together and this is what you get. An absolute beast of a sound that will rock the very foundations on the planet when it’s played at high volume.  

Our artist today is one of the most respected in this field. Each release from the Canadian is guaranteed to fuel some kind of emotion in you - more than likely the desire to dance around like a nutter, or possibly some expression of violence. Cranking up the stereo will only increase the insane drum beats and synths. If you ever want to piss off your next-door neighbours, then playing pretty much any Venetian Snares track will do the trick. With BPMs reaching stupidly high levels it’s a sure way of ruffling a few feathers. 

We expect a few of you to listen to his tracks, and put it down as random noise that someone created by hammering a few keys on a laptop. How wrong you are. Not only has the whole genre been influenced by this one individual, he has also created some of the most unique sounds ever committed to record. Out of the mammoth amounts of releases, one album in particular deserves a mention. 2005’s Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (Hungarian for Born Under a Bad Star) combined Venetian Snares' typical heavy drums with the tones of classical music. The two should never go together, but the results are incredible. One of music’s great undiscovered gems. 

By our reckoning, Venetian Snares has made no less then 12 albums and an equal amount of EPs in the space of just a few years. Even with an incredible output, each release delivers something different. If you are a drum and bass fan and looking to find that next insane artist, you’ll find it here. Videos are also on the Venetian Snares MySpace page to show what he’s all about live, too. Never before have we been quite so scared of a near seven-foot-tall Canadian snarling around the various mixers as he destroys the minds of various people’s ears. 

Oh, and an a side topic, he also has the best name in the world. He’s called Aaron Funk. How awesome would it to be called Mr or Mrs Funk? We can only imagine! 

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Venetian Snares MySpace Page