Pinhole of Light

Pinhole of Light

Phil Kieran [Flying Cabbage]

27 November, 2007 | 5.53PM

• Written by: Richard Brophy
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: flying cabbage, phil kieran

When he’s not one third of techno punk act Alloy Mental, Belfast producer Phil Kieran has a track record of making excellent underground electro.

Check out his releases on Decal’s Trama Industries and Nasty’s Electrix if you can find them, as well as effective but unremarkable club techno.

It seems that Kieran is finished with making electro, which is a shame because I felt it was his strongest work, but he continues to make techno and house, and Flying Cabbage is his new outlet for such ventures.

Thankfully, he has moved beyond the pumping, party techno style that typified his releases for Bugged Out and Kingsize, and has gone deeper and a lot darker.

Maybe his work as Alloy Mental has coloured his solo productions, but there is a distinctively grungy, industrial feel to ‘Pinhole’: hefty slabs of titanium bass support rough and raw bleeps, with Kieran gradually introducing a spooky synth passage.

It sounds like he has engorged himself on Suicide, 90s Sabrettes techno and even some choice ebm and spat it all out in a big, brutal chunk — and not even Jesper Dahlback’s acid-flecked reshape can come close to emulating it.

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