bloodysnowman - s/t (daly city) on his self-titled album, bloodysnowman merges few appropriate and suitable musical styles for a record of this kind (that tends to be more intented for the dance floors than for home listening), but somehow in the music all of those styles are coming from a bit distant background and in most of the tracks there's not a specific style or genre that defines the music. the general atmosphere through the whole album is a kind of glitch inspired (or infected) drill'n'bass sound, which is never harsh at all (not as venetian snares or similar artists). besides the drilled out glitchy feeling characteristic about the whole album, there's also a little bit of idm sensibility in it, which is somehow too desolate to be clearly noticed. what's for sure is that there are rhythms and rhythmic patterns (even sounding a bit tribal) in the tracks, aiming to catch the listener's or the dancer's attention and often the beats in the rhythms are influenced by industrial music (sounding maybe too repetitive in 'this year so far'). with the other sounds in the background (that are, as mentioned before, inspired by drill, idm and mostly glitch aesthetics and sometimes are a bit blurry) it seems that this music is for a smaller group of people in an alternative club and with a more specific and limited appeal. anyhow, even though bloodysnowman's music on this album is not the current hype in club oriented music, it offers an alternative to what might develop to be the next hype, since it seems that many combinations of styles are modern in the current contemporary production of (not only) dance music, because there are no strict boundaries between what's considered to be dance music with a tribal sense and music for listening and both of them continually interfere and influence each other. one of the most rhythmically balanced tracks on this album is 'hell yeah i want an ambulance', with a guest trumpet player (there's another guest player on drums on the first track 'drinking in the bushes'), so maybe that combination of acoustic instruments with the electronics might give bloodysnowman a new direction for the other next releases. (br)