container: vegetation

North American noise techno juggernaut, Ren Schofield, a.k.a. Container, delivers Vegetation EP with a loony, snaggle-toothed grin. Vegetation extracts five fanged floor tools that make few concessions to notions of "progress" or "refinement" in his process. The metallic, skidding patterns of "Vegetation" get in your skin before thwacking about with gleeful abandon to the gush curdled acid tones and salty, spattered drum machines of "Soak". "Funnel" is the EP's strangest, canniest creation - stepping with a militant wonk; "Radiator" consolidates suspension-testing electro with lacquer-bubbling noise; and "Insulation" wrests grimacing gremlins from a battered array of non-standard, possibly-illegal hardware.