FM4 Soundpark Act of the month // Pleasant Clutter LP
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If one of the biggest hits of the year is based on a type beat, major streaming services are saving themselves royalties by means of fake artists, and machine-based compositions are no longer immediately distinguishable from man-made songs, then music has become predictable in the full sense of the word.

This is also the struggle of Viennese artist, B.Visible, especially since the electronic dance and hip-hop genres within which he mainly moves are particularly rich with rules and formulas. The title of his debut album, “Pleasant Clutter”, is therefore to be considered less as a middle finger towards the followers of Marie Kondo and more as a plea for more surprising turns in music: “This has always been an essential part of my productions. A little chaos, and then putting it all together in the end so that it works out and sounds like something.”

At the end of this process, in which the producer extracts various melodies, sounds and grooves from his musical machinery and then assembles them into a coherent whole, there stands a highly successful vinyl release. With its shimmering synthesizers, thick chords and attentive attention to detail in its rhythms, “Pleasant Clutter” neatly joins a contemporary canon with such Viennese contemporaries as Dorian Concept or Cid Rim, while retaining its own unique sound. True to B.Visible who’s will to surprise himself and others, a completely unexpected sound can come around the corner at any given time and the structure of the instrumental song can drastically change in an instant.