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THE 100 GREATEST IDM TRACKS

23. VENETIAN SNARES
‘Fuck a Stranger in the Ass’
(1999, History of the Future)

In some ways, Aaron Funk’s nihilistic and hate-fuelled early tracks – deliberately lo-fi and as close to gabber in sound and attitude as to any other genre – were a blessed relief from IDM’s preciousness and finicky over-elaboration. But in another they were simply a corollary of the pisstakey, demented desire to take rave mania to new extremes that characterised Aphex, Spymania and a lot of the scene’s progenitors. Plus, of course, very soon after bursting onto the scene, Venetian Snares would quickly revert to type and be making symphonies of micro-edits on Planet Mu with the best of them.

I saw Venetian Snares at the Detroit electronic music festival. I liked it because it was not the same generic music but one hour of what sounded like bashing a piece of roofing metal for one hour got a bit monotonous.