C-Schulz Makes Industrial Music with Flair – AdHoc

C-Schulz Makes Industrial Music with Flair

“Barbapapa” should sound heavy, maybe even unpleasant. But it doesn’t: despite the skronk of its mechanized percussion, its spooky minor chord synth stabs, and the diagetic scream that cut across the song’s mechanical layers, “Barbapapa” is industrial music at its most infectious, at its most benevolent.Unearthed and reissued by Unseen Worlds, the track is part of a Frühe Jahre, a compilation of experimentalist C-Schulz’s early work that showcases the musician’s fluency with genres as disparate as noise and modern classical. On “Barbapapa,” as drum machines squelch into place, Schulz’s tools seem to sway into assembly as he refurbishes the harshness of industrial music into something more akin to the funky bounce of acid jazz. In the swirl of chug and chortle that C-Schulz conjures here, man, machine, and magic meld in a euphoric singularity—one that rewires apocalyptic anxieties and channels its clanking energy into a vision of pure play.

Frühe Jahre is out August 18 on Unseen Worlds.

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