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Billy Bates- Another Beautiful Day In The Apocalypse EP

by Billy Bates

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The next transmission from the Squirrels On Film universe is a very special digital only extended play from a producer who is as prolific as he is obscure to the wider world. Billy Bates aka Mr Saturday aka the half of Zonetech who isn't C.l.a.w.s. aka former goth punk synth punk in The Vanishing, is the kind of person who sends you 2 gigabytes of unreleased jamz every couple months & it's legit ALL KILLER. The decision to share some of this bounty with the headz was easy, the hard part was deciding which joints to drop first. For every five Billy-Bangers there are twenty more but we are overjoyed to unleash these five for the solo debut of one of our absolute favorite musicians & people, hardware live set party-rocker, Black Metal Techno Mystery Man, & Digital Dub Dad...

Billy Bates.

“Another Beautiful Day In The Apocalypse” kicks things off. A motorik mid-tempo floor banger, it's the sound of drunk-driving a go-cart down the autobahn in drag. Big blown-out drums, like whackingg trash cans in an empty warehouse, and a driving Moroder-esque groove but as if Giorgio had few too many. Then there's the broken oscillator guitar solo that goes on top of everything, creating dark punk disco that's unhinged & extraordinarily fun. Just as with the Zonetech EP from last year, the drum programing is unique & excellent here & throughout these five songs, it always recognizable as dance music, but avoids the cookie-cutter, bland & beige moves that we hear in far too much stuff out there.

“Sunsets Of Doom” is a distorted breakdance jam given a heavy dub treatment. Extreme exploding delays in all directions for that proper popper hit, huddled up way too close to the bass bin. If Mad Professor got a chance to dub out Mantronix for the rejected Escape From New York soundtrack, that's what we have here.

“I Don't Want To Go Outside” is lost 80s dancehall rhythm for the goth club. The drums could be straight off a Sly Dunbar Compass Point session. It's a slow pulsating groove that decidedly avoids the four on the floor for the first part of the song. Someone invited Kevin Shields to this session to rip out woozy clouds of distorted guitar noise over the beat & Goth-Digi-Dub was born. This track has been a favorite of the Squirrels Family for a long time & it's finally getting out into the world.

“Dancing As The World Burns” brings us to the disco. It's a full-on dance-floor ripper, but in the mold of Throbbing Gristles Hot On The Heals Of Love. This one is for the all disc jockeys who've been waiting patiently to get back to making the kids sweat with ecstatic love & abandon.

“One Day We Will Be Ok” stays at the club. It's a lysergic shuffler, acid house at its finest and funkiest. Layers of red-lined drum machines underscore the timeless squelch of Roland's silver bassline box, tabs on the tongues, butts shaking at the after-party, bring down the walls.

This very special release has been a long time coming & we think it's worth the wait. Take a trip into the mind of Billy Bates, you'll be glad you did.

Words by: Tasho Nicolopulos
Cover art by: Bert Bergen

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released May 19, 2021

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