I came across Eddie Entropy through a series of connections via MySpace and the Twin Cities Electropunk compilation series. After witnessing his strangely captivating performance at the release show of the third installment, I did as any savvy networking individual would do: I ‘friended’ him to keep up-to-date on his activities. It seems that Mr. Entropy is involved in a variety of projects under a variety of aliases. Discreetly prolific, indeed.
Eddie’s latest manifestation is Audio Victim, a revisitation to his collaboration with Scorchtone (previously as Neo Void). Merging breakbeat, synthpop, electro and industrial aspects they just self-released Divine Delusion last week on the Internet for free, and I imagine this will be followed by a hard copy release shortly.
Part of the uniqueness of Audio Victim is that Eddie (vocals) lives in Minneapolis, and Scorchtone (music) resides in Vancouver. The way the story goes, much of the raw material from EE was laid down onto minidisk back in 2003. Judging by the timeframe that Neo Void was active, Scorchtone must have been sitting on this for some time, while working on a variety of other projects. Nonetheless, it’s here, and it is enticing.
What makes it enticing? The darksider club beats, for one. This is an album you could spin from beginning to end and dance straight through. For the noise addict, you need look no further than this. Aside from some the beats being dirty, Scorchtone’s tracks are well textured, without being painful. Add in Eddie’s plaintive, stream-of-thought voice (which there should have been more of), and we’re talking serious IDM.
Website: Audio Victim
