Dariusz Jakowski – Bleach Cocktail (Album – Ubocze)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Breakcore, Experimental.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Dariusz Jakowski is a Polish producer & artist who has released an impressive number of productions during the past years. “Bleach Cocktail” is his newest work featuring ten tracks.
Content: “Bleach Cocktail” takes off with a kind of Dark-, Experimental-Techno sound filled with a true canvas of noises and effects. The tracks are still revealing a minimalistic approach. Quite progressively the album evolves into Breakcore. The tracks feature minimalism and darkness.
+ + + : This is an interesting album for its Techno- and Breakcore free-style. Both influences have been mixed with Electronic sequences, dark noises and Industrial sound treatments. I especially like the Techno-driven debut cuts.
– – – : The album is gradually evolving into a few less cohesive cuts which sound a bit like improvisation.
Conclusion: I have mixed feelings listening to this album which is moving from dark, creative Techno music towards less inspired and less cohesive passages.
Best songs: “Bleach Cocktail”, “Bacteria”, “MDnT”.
Rate: 7.
Label: https://uboczerec.pl / www.facebook.com/ubocze
About Dariusz Jakowski
Dariusz Jakowski, based in Wroclaw, Poland, works as a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist and sound and music computing researcher, and also performs as part of the project Monument Zero. His catalogue on the Wroclaw label Ubocze includes “Colours Of Wind”, “Mikrodawkowanie” with DustCats, and “Not For People”, alongside “Bleach Cocktail”, reviewed here.
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