Making orange things or MOT, was the first album ever to be made using ICQ. ICQ enabled both Aaron and Speedy to transfer files remotely edit and return to each other! Of course over a period of time mr Snares...or Mr Aaron Funk has been making quite a stir amongst the beat freaks, and fans of weird electronics, so much so that our man Speedranch couldnt resist the smoking high resolution illogical beats...anyway previous to MOT Aaron had released 1 x 7" and two different LP/CDs on MuZiq's label PlanetMu...

Snares path of destruction has now of course gone off! Some say the v/snares beats are revolutionary. One thing they are is an exploration, into a world beyond bionic scrambled jungle, with unusual / fucked timings and cavitys. For more info check the comments and links below.

VENETIAN SNARES & SPEEDRANCH : Making Orange Things cd/2lp

Speaking of extremities... Making Orange Things is pretty bloody damaging to speakers and eardrums. A sonic collision of all-out beats, triggers, distorts and layer-on-layer of sampled noise. Nasty as fuck, this is an insane brain-numbing assault of structures and non-structures. Voices scream through the mayhem of percussive waves, in turn becoming another noise adding to the mix. Strangely, overall, the sound isn't as dirty as it could be and the production leaves quite an open sound which seems to add threat to the proceedings. Post Whitehouse for the DHR crowd. Electro-punk is alive and kicking.

Venetian Snares + Speedranch - Making Orange Things from rocket ezine
10/10

Ears pounding. Brain frying. Memory blanking. This. Hurts. Bad! Without doubt, the collaboration between Speedranch and Venetian Snares is the most violent, aggressive and loudest album to see the light in modern day 2001. Making Orange Things is completely composed and constructed by swapping samples back and forth over ICQ, as Speedranch lives in England and vSnares in Canada. The result isn't any less devestating. Imagine Atari Teenage Riot. Imagine Merzbow. Now imagine Merzbow doing Atari, or vice versa. Now play a bit with the pitch, making it faster!faster!FASTER!. OK, you seem to be getting close to Making Orange Things. Ranging between fucked up digital breakbeats ("Cheatin", "We Hate Russell") to noisier stuff ("Pay Me For Sex", "Tushe Love") to pure tekno/gabber ("Unborn Baby") this is seriously demented stuff, at times approaching Dave Rodger's Delta9 project but with more variation added. Vocals and samples are inspired by Jerry Springer, the artwork is very orange indeed and if you want to piss off your neighbours this is the album you MUST have.

from overload- VENETIAN SNARES & SPEEDRANCH 'Making Orange Things' (Planet Mu)

In an age when The Popstars are assured of a 'straight in at number one' even before the band has formed let alone "written" the song it seems increasingly hard to accept that there is any musical dimension to the formula for popular appeal. Not that Venetian Snares or Speedranch have ever given a fuck about popular appeal.

Preferring instead to tread a highly individual path that follows the almost indistiquishable line between music and noise. This much anticipated collaboration between Manchester's 'noisecore vocalist' Speedranch and Canadian Aaron Funk for Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu label is all and much more than was expected.

Combining the original raw energy of punk with speedcore trash metal, hardcore breakbeats, a love of cheesy classics (Bon Jovi, Stairway to Heaven, Dolly Parton etc), the twisted humour of A League of Gentlemen and as many knob twists, filters and effects as is humanly possible 'Making Orange Things' is the perfect antidote to the MTV/McDonnalds/Popstars dross served to the masses. Probably the nearest thing to pure evil ever to appear on vinyl or CD format. Highly Recommended. M

venetian snares ^ speedranch MOT review from nezzwerk

as tom@spectre puts it, "violence is good for you," and in this respect "making orange things" is as good as it gets. I am sure that by this time you heard a thing or two about prolific canadian "wunderkind" mr. snares, that has been recently signed by planet mu. mr. snares is making orange things together with speedranch. some of you are probably familiar with him by his collaboration with part of v/vm, jansky noise. you might find interesting the fact that this album has been created by two musicians over icq.

"making orange things" is the most violent, noisiest and fun record I have heard in a longest time. it creates a terrorizing wall of sound, splatter mix of broken drill&noise, speedcore, drum&bass, tweaked frequencies, cut-up noises, bizarre funky samples, and straight noise attacks. it rattles the speakers, shatters the windows, drives your adrenaline to all-time high and then pins you to the floor with the thunderous percussion attacks.

each track constantly changes, one second exploding with speedcore passages, and the next moment tripping over itself and collapsing into broken, twisted and aggressive techstep. few opening tracks really remind me idm gone bad - a maddening in its complexity and ferocity atmosphere, that is truly fascinating. heavy corroded beats and constantly spinning, breaking, crushing and rolling breaks, noises, screeches, cut-up speedcore textures constantly mutate and span multiple genres with only few things remaining in common - speed, aggression, and fun.

I cannot really say which part of the disk belongs to which musician, but this disk is yet another side of venetian snares, and probably my favorite one to this point (of course, I have not heard "songs about my cats" yet).
review of MOT from muzik mag (not good sir mike)..... quality...

> Do you think it would be wise to send Aaron this?
>
> Mike p
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> VENETIAN SNARES & SPEEDRANCH
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> Making Orange Things (Planet 5)
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> "But when it sounds this good who cares?" reviewers like to say when
> they've outlined several reasons why a record is rubbish but want you o
> buy it anyway, usually because it's by their mate, or it's currently
> trendy. Venetian Snares makes deeply unfashionable speedcore breakbeat;
> Speedranch is by all accounts thoroughly unpleasant (and a "singer" in
> the sense that a dentist's drill is a "musical instrument"); and "Orange
> Things" is by turns puerile, unlistenable and deliberately obnoxious.
> But in all honesty, when it sounds this good...
>
> 3/5 Tom Mugridge

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