HEXSTATIC
Master-View
Ninja Tune
· Where the hell did I park my flying car?
I was never a member of the AV club. Maybe if I had been, I would understand why every CD I have recieved in the past six months has come with an accompanying DVD. I don’t have anything against music videos or special features, but my DVD player is on the other side of the room from my stereo and I’m really lazy.
Hexstatic’s Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson are audiovisual experts, combining mixed media with electronica since 1995. I was intrigued to find that the CD came with a pair of 3-D glasses, which put me in a good enough mood to watch the bonus DVD. I even went to all the trouble of lowering the contrast on my television to get the full effect. With a corresponding video for every track on the album, it provides some mildly amusing, trippy entertainment.
Master-View’s sound is hyper-futuristic kitsch. The record has an apocalyptic appeal – one imagines the future as being a desolate and ancient place, where technology revolts and leaves Earth’s survivors to salvage scrapyards to make mainframes and eight-track players – and the album’s vintage campiness is intoxicating. With its archaic videogame blips and vinyl samples, the pair create some very lax and swanky grooves. However, I prefer to live in the present.
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