Happy new goreshit! For someone who’s been traditionally rapid-fire in his releases it feels weird to realize that it’s been six months since goreshit’s last album, semantics: the benzo chronicles. But it’s all for the better as goretrance 9 is a goreshit fan’s goreshit album.
goretrance 9 is, fittingly, nine tracks of the extremely versatile underground hardcore king doing what he absolutely does best: ridiculously fun dancecore remixes of dumb pop shit that’s far too smartly composed for their own good, of course culminating in the delightfully absurd twenty minute 214 BPM medley of UK rave throwbacks (highlights include Becks’ landmark single Dynamite and the Helix crowd-favorite U R Everything). I’ve always been awed by just how deeply cut goreshit’s influences go, and everything on this release is deeply reverent to the 90’s rave sound that touches every second.
And this has always been what defined goreshit from his emulators was that his rave influences aren’t surface-deep. Every song’s structure harkens back to how the tracks of DJ Sy, Acen, and others were constructed, no half-assed anine OP/internet meme pop remixes here. His use of repetition and old-school leads are on point and bring a sense of authenticity to this otherwise unholy abomination of hyperspeed bullshit.
For more similar ultrafast goreshit, blue girl on sunday is a good start. To see how deep goreshit’s respect for rave goes, check his nineties rave retrospective EP series.
