Overt Chasm by Incipientium

AST161: Incipientium - Overt Chasm c40



For a young fella, Gustav Danielsbacka has amassed a staunch body of work under the Incipientium handle. Tides of harshitude have evolved into eerie voids of electroacousmatic collage. Continuing the work of ancients like the P Henry tape club and, closer to (his) home, the unfuckwithable inferno of noise Sweden has spewed forth over the last 20 odd years, Danielsbacka continues to fan the flames with his own language.



Fortunately, I met Gustav, having a chat to him before Troth played a show in Gothenburg two years ago (feels like a lifetime) and thinking what a switched-on guy he was for someone barely shaking off the shitness of adolescence. I didn’t realise he was the “Lil' Gustav” that I had been told about earlier by the Discreet heads. Who, they informed me, had been producing some of the more vital recent music to emanate from a locale obviously teeming with it in abundance. 



These recordings follow a consistent stream of LP’s and smaller releases on Gothenburg’s treasured Forlag For Fri Musik and Happiest Place, an album for iDEAL Recordings and a recent collaborative work with Swedish Noise Don, Sewer Election.

Overt Chasm bears two long-form fruits - the Overt side finds us moored in the visceral, demiurgical drone sphere rather than simply offering expleted bursts of static. All ritual atmosphere. Subtle beauty possibly hiding within its weighty folds. The titular Chasm side holds, amongst other things, an opaque sample squeezed from a kind of early Hype Williams adjacent, chopped n’ bruised dada/dodoist continuum before the dial is jammed to piano transmissions from outside space.

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