Dual Purpose
Runfastmaybefaster

THE REVIEW

After the sporadic appearance in 2000, with the EP "Hobs", the entity Gescom manifests for the second and last time under the guise of Dual Purpose in 2003, through "Runfastmaybefaster", an EP decidedly more experimental than the first.

The title track is immediately innovative, it's a soporific abstract hip hop with an alienoid spoken word, where you can breathe the polluted and drugged air that was previously the concept of "Confield", with its accompanying dissonances, metallic drones, and aseptic scattered noises everywhere; on the same lines is "Lickedlonger" which flaunts strong industrial influences, also present on "Colex", a sort of breaks/powernoise hybrid reminiscent of certain releases by Hands Production. The insane "Rubbaband" is nothing but the cherry on top in a flawless EP, an experiment between drill'n'bass and breakcore that instead of hitting with the intricate and precise patterns of the Squarepusher/Vsnares school, it fires a continuous roll that feels a lot like death metal, but also like "Untilted", with which it shares the process of disarticulation and breaking of any form of rhythm.

The hand of Autechre is most likely more present here than in the debut and, considering the impressive level of work done by the duo in the first half of the 2000s, it's logical to foresee a highly inspired and absolutely out of the box release.