- All of the tracks on Cotrim's Dança ("dance") share the EP's title, but with each successive track another letter is pruned off, until, by the maddening noise-techno churn of the closer, we're just left with a "D." This process mirrors the Lisbon producer's music, which subjects techno to a series of merciless amputations. This approach, and Cotrim's love for distortion, call to mind US technoise artists like Container. But Cotrim, who appears here on Photonz's One Eyed Jacks label following a clutch of low-profile CDrs, has found his own gloopy sound-signature.
A few different intensity levels are explored on Dança, the lowest being the opener, a plodding succession of low-end rumbles and piercing synth shrieks. It sounds sort of like an improvised modular jam, and like many such jams, you can't help but feel it was more interesting for its creator than for the listener. Elsewhere things get more engaging. "Danc" and "Dan" are more straightforward techno, though they're still deeply broken, their drum loops beset by blasts of hi-hats and bruised toms. Every now and then the beat drops half a second, making it impossible to get a grip on the pulse. On "Da," meanwhile, Cotrim almost loses the plot completely. Percussion lines stumble over one another frantically, until the whole thing collapses in glorious chaos.
Tracklist01. Dança
02. Danç
03. Dan
04. Da
05. D