Dark. Sinister. Disturbing. Like the beginning of a really f—king frightening horror film. Deep Fade are not messing around as they manipulate synth, voice, sampling and guitar to create an industrial noise soundtrack to what appears to be some kind of mechanical dystopia.
Deep Fade are a trio of long-time collaborators featuring Amanda Votta on noise guitars, samples and fades, Grey Malkin of The Hare and The Moon on ambiance and Neddal Ayad of the goslings and The Spectral Light on samples and guitar – all three contributing synth, the instrument that lies at the very heart of what they do. And for their current album Line of Flight they have created something that taps into synth-based industrial electronica in the most literal sense.
They may currently be based in Providence, but it is actually Votta’s hometown of Detroit that provides the foundations for Line of Flight. The trio employ recordings gathered from visits to construction and demolition sites around the city, melding them with guitar and synth effects to create a pervasive industrial dark ambient soundscape including the track ‘Temporal Uncertainty’.
Opening with a synth line, ominous in its essence, percussive beats appear before industrial samples and haunting vocals create a distorted sonic experience jarring in its delivery. It’s near impossible to tell what is sample and what is synth and effect, which is of course the point. This is industrial music at its most literal and probably at its darkest. Brilliant.
Sarah Gregory
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