Like most good musical ventures, Seeping arose with two friends hanging out, sharing ideas, food and YouTube videos. Mark Groves and Dave Coen would spend nights eating pizza and watching 90s hip-hop videos, as they developed their own ideas for an abstract and experimental sound.The Melbourne duo who have played in a swag of noise and experimental projects including Whitehorse, Hans Harms, Sow Discord, True Radical Miracle, Dead Boomers and Absoluten Calfeutrail, release Go To Hell, You Bastards their Seeping's debut on 12" vinyl by Resistance / Restraint on April 1.As Mark explains, "David and I have hung out intermittently over the last couple of years, catching up to shoot the shit, devour pizza and alternate as selector for YouTube videos – frequently early 90s hip-hop, and often UK 'Britcore' of the era such as Gunshot's "Crime Story" and the like."Inspired by the tenor of that material rather than the stylistic aspects, Seeping arose from surrounding talk about a desire to pursue serrated, broken rhythmic electronics with voice. David's subsequent approach to production was extrapolated from his work as Sow Discord, with focus drawn towards sparse arrangements and low end frequencies. Concurrently I harvested phrases from news media, and resonant fragments reflective of our uneasy, confused, and generally fearful outlook made the cut."Take a listen to the track "Lustrous Truncheon" where over Coen's sparse and bleak arrangements Groves repeats the words 'state violence apparatus' in a slow, laconic and almost narcotic delivery.It sounds like an ominous Guantanamo Bay guard cracking their knuckles.
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'Go To Hell, You Bastards' is available April 1 on Resistance / Restraint.