Recoil / Greywash, by Of One / Whirling Hall Of Knives

Recoil / Greywash

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	1.	Of One - Recoil 15:02 video
	2.	Whirling Hall Of Knives - Greywash 15:18

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OF ONE:

Alan O'Boyle is one half of early 90s electronic act Decal, one half of Legion Of Two, all of Legion Of One, and a legend in Irish underground electronic music; releasing his sounds on esteemed labels such as Planet Mu, Rotters Golf Club, D1, Leaf, Law & Auder and Saberettes.

In 2021, Alan launched his new project, Of One, releasing two albums for Front End Synthetics - the first new material he has issued since 2009. CN welcomes Alan's latest recording, in a killer split with WHOK.

WHIRLING HALL OF KNIVES:

A collaboration between Magnetize and The Last Sound, Whirling Hall Of Knives' harsh smoldering circuits and eruptions of panicky white noise have a profoundly unsettling quality, a sense of gnawing paranoia but interspersed with moments of almost euphoric epiphany, as if in the grip of an unshakeable 4am psychosis a growing sense that the door will be kicked in at any second and the world outside will come pouring in. Psyche electronics of a particularly greasy and grime-flecked hue. Like Surgeon jamming with Dead C. Like rave gone bad.

"Essential double header that unites the prodigious talents of Irish underground legend Alan O’Boyle, aka Of One, and mercurial noiseniks Whirling Hall Of Knives for two epic excursions through electronic music’s storm-lashed hinterlands where the usual rules of engagement are broken with gleeful impunity. Of One fires the first broadside with ‘Recoil’, a menacing deep techno leviathan that pivots around the most incendiary acid line since Barnt’s remix of C.P.I.’s ‘Proceso’. Burrowing through a thick loam of distortion and bass viscera like the Graboid from Tremors, it periodically breaks cover to snap its scabrous jaws, spatters of caustic 303 eating away at the track’s juddering wheelbase until it comes perilously close to disintegrating. It’s a face-chewing monster of a tune that simply begs to be cranked through a skyscraper-high system, but no less formidable is WHOK’s astonishing ‘Greywash’, the sonic equivalent of a malign Lovecraftian cryptid with more tentacles than an octopus farm. For the first half of its 15-minute runtime a fractured rhythm is slowly strangled to death by thistly creepers of static like Skee Mask getting out-jammed by Rafael Anton Irisarri. Almost without warning the chokehold is broken by a skyrocketing blast of superheated Galaxian-esque electro before a plangent ambient coda irradiates the soundfield and silence finally descends. So good it should probably be illegal. Indulge."
- Nic Brown, Gonzo Karaoke gonzokaraoke.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/of-one-whirling-hall-of-knives-recoil-greywash/

"Part rave, part glitch, part tech-house part just fucking great, veteran IDM producer Alan O’Boyle teams up with Barry Murphy and Stephen Gethings of Whirling Hall of Knives for a split that feels like a rumble in the front bar of the night club. There’s no need to go through to the dance floor – the beautiful noise unravels within the spit and sawdust confines of civic vitality.

With two tracks clocking in at 15 minutes each, Of One and Whirling Hall of Knives pick apart the melodic debris of Surgeon and hurl it against the mirror. The ensuing pieces glistening with the kind of magic that the three respective producers have been renowned for over the years.

It’s another fantastic offering, with the only criticism being that there isn’t more."
- SImon Kirk, Sun 13
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"Dance music has favoured brevity lately, with producers trimming tracks down to ensure instant dancefloor gratification. So it's a rare treat that here, pulled from deep within the Irish electronic undergrowth, we have two 15-minute techno-noise-acid-industrial earth-shakers that make every gnarly second count. Of One - aka Planet Mu alum Alan O'Boyle - sets his hardware to slow-burn on 'Recoil', its rumbling beat and sinewy acid line boiled in roiling distortion. WHOK's 'Greywash' is all fuzz. its thunderous pay-off arriving after eight mind-altering minutes."
- Eoin Murray, Staff Picks, DJ Magazine

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released May 26, 2023

'Recoil' written and produced by Alan O'Boyle.
'Greywash' written and produced by Whirling Hall Of Knives.

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