Re:Visit - Bleep Bloop w/ Sayer, Little Snake, Secret Recipe | 10/30/2019 @ Cervantes Other Side
This past Re:Search was as much of a hair raising ritual anyone could have hoped for. Dark, glitchy, unconventional madness ruled the night, with each set sinking deeper into the void. Secret Recipe, Little Snake, Sayer, and Bleep Bloop conjoined to ring in All Hallow’s Eve at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and left all in attendance zombified with purely scrambled brains.
This selection of artists collectively explore a very similar sound, and while each artist brought their own marked style, there was a striking parallel between all their sets: everyone dropped an unreleased G Jones track. Just a couple of weeks after his first headlining Red Rocks show, to receive that level of recognition and appreciation from this many artists in one place elevates him to Don status of the sound movement that all of these DJs help form. Might as well just call him, “GOAT Jones” from now on.
Secret Recipe began the night’s experimental odyssey and didn’t hold back one bit. As one of the founders of the Wormhole Music Group, based out of Oakland, California, he has helped shape and embodies their mission to obliterate genre conventions and conjure the heaviest bass imaginable. He unleashed several new and unreleased tracks, some of which saw their debut that night.
Little Snake followed, delving further into the wonkiness. His style consists of heavy bass lines laid under a stacked collage of samples of things like drips, plops, glitches, sirens, guns being cocked, and stuttering percussion, all set to unpredictable beats and tempos. It was dizzying trying to keep up with Little Snake...so I stopped trying. I found it most enjoyable to let go of all expectations and embrace the weirdness.
Sayer guided us into darker realms with his set. He’s another Oakland based producer using the lowest possible frequencies to explore the most uncharted musical territory. In the opening moments of his performance, a voice said, “Maybe there is a place we can go without rules.” Well it’s safe to say he found it, or created such a place. And Sayer made it straight eerie, especially on his latest release Avarice, which he played almost in its entirety. It’s pure bass face inspiring heaviness.
It doesn’t get much deeper or stranger than Bleep Bloop. Self-described “bass surrealism”, it’s not for everyone, but for those that vibe with it, it scratches an itch that nothing else quite reaches. He showcased his new EP, Gain The Axe, which features some of his most experimental work to date while remixing old favorites such as “Roll My Blunts” and “K9 Unit”. Though it was odd to see the headliner take the late set spot, Bleep Bloop was the perfect soundtrack to ring in Halloween.
