Hiro Kone - Pure Expenditure
A record you want to play as loud as possible to feel the bass even deeper. Perfectly crafted depths that drag the darkness around in repetitive and addictive patterns. Rhythms that clash and pull. A bass that beats relentlessly without getting bogged down in a classic 4/4 beat. New Yorker Hiro Kone flirts with industrial and techno. She previously caught the attention of Roxy Farman (Wetware) and Drew McDowall. This led to a collaboration on the ep ‘The Ghost of Georges Bataille’. Both are names that flirt with the divide, always leaving the experimentation to the winning sound. Just one year after her debut ‘Love Is the Capital’, Hiro Kone is back with ‘Pure Expenditure’. A record that only confirms and establishes Hiro Kone as one of the better names in brutal rhythm work. And the beats aren’t even raving. Hiro Kone does it subtly and deeply. Dark layer work, where the sounds clash around the rhythms like ebony marbles. But musically she goes further. ‘Poortgebouw’ is dark ambient. A sound once patented by Demdike Stare. The sound takes a turn. Little Annie lends her voice to ‘Outside The Axiom’. Hiro Kone gets closer to her cold wave pioneers. Used as inspiration. Her musical palette unfolds. ‘Pure Expenditure” shows what it’s all about. Experimental industrial techno often sounds ok on a notepad, but here it is phenomenal in all its purity.