EPY
~ahead of the wav

Although equipped with an obvious touch of irony, the album title by these likeable recluses delivers a most fitting descriptions for epy's music. With a healthy disrespect for traditional music, "ahead of the wav" yet again presents epy's blueprint for the disco of the next decade but one.

For nigh on nine years the Austrians have been programming their own software, feeding it snippets of hiphop, electro or jazz as sustenance for endless improvisation sessions, to then again dissect the results and combine them anew, creating a patchwork of the driest bass drums, crisp hi-hats, rattling bass, deep soundscapes and fragments processed to infinity.  Sounds that appear from nowhere, with uncountable, tiny barbs, scramble all over each other, somewhere between collision and flow while seemingly awkward rhythm shifts might take a few bars to settle into an angular groove.  It's funk distilled.