Edgey – Idiom (EP – Edgey)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, Industrial.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Stephen James Knight aka Edgey self-released “Idiom” at the end of 2020. The sonic terrorist achieved four new cuts.
Content: Defining the music of Edgey isn’t an easy thing, but on the other hand you can’t get away from the feeling he clearly brings Breakcore and Industrial together. His work always features dynamic rhythms and an impressive sonic canvas. Even the slowest passages of the EP have something raw, unpolished and evil. The last track also is the longest one, on which he injected fragmented vocal parts (samples?).
+ + + : Edgey remains a very unique experience in sound, which is nearly impossible to label; the sound being too Breakcore for Industrial lovers and maybe too Industrial for Breakcore freaks. But there’s no compromise, but just powerful music and that’s the main strength of the project. I especially like both last cuts. I however have a preference for “1999++” for its impressive final part.
– – – : There’s no way in between with Edgey: you are going to like it or not! It remains a challenging experience, but a very unique one in its genre.
Conclusion: Edgey sounds like a bulldozer on a highway… hard, brutal and merciless!
Best songs: “1999++”, “tri – p”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/edgey.net
About Edgey
Edgey is the breakcore and industrial project of American producer Stephen James Knight. His earliest credited appearances date to 1999 and 2001 on the compilations “Live Wire – A Presentation of L.I. Electronic Music” and “ChaoRin Kombat – Phase One / Issue One: 2001”, and he later featured on “You Are Here: A Compilation Of New York Electronics” for Connexion Bizarre in 2008.
The German label Hands Productions released three of his albums: “Square Form Annihilations” in 2005, “Flawed” in 2007 and “Misfire” in 2010. “The Abuse Technique” appeared on Hive Records in 2006. He also contributed tracks to the Hands compilations “Forms Of Hands 06”, “Forms Of Hands 07” and “Forms Of Hands 09”, to “Maschinenfest 2005” and “Maschinenfest 2010”, and to “Kinetik Festival Volume Three” on Artoffact Records in 2010.
Since the mid-2010s Knight has released mainly on his own, issuing the four “Singles” collections, the “Dirt303” reissue in 2018 and “Structures In Rust” in 2019. The “Darkness” EP arrived in 2020, and the four-track “Idiom” EP followed on 18 December 2020 as a WAV download, holding “Lorenz ρ σ β”, “+ RMS Length”, “Tri – P” and “1999 ++”. Later work includes the “Hyperpetual” EP in 2021, “Nervös” on darkstep.org in 2022, “Everything And Nothing” in 2023 and “Zerrüttet” in 2024.
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