Violet Poison

The author of the mix is mysterious Violet Poison, a cosmopolitan industrial/experimental techno producer and live act often wearing a black nylon mask during his live performances. His music is based on noisy rhythms, extensive sound architecture and profound low tones. Violet Poison is inspired by various conspiracy theories, egyptology, freemasonry and history. The meaning of his name flows from violet colour which is the most esoteric and one of the oldest colours used by humans, and poison which is associated to perhaps the most feminine way to kill. Both words have gothic and dark imagery behind. Even though Violet Poison’s works has recently appeared in the catalogs of electronic music, he is not a newbie in the scene and has a vast baggage of previous releases via other pseudonyms. However, this is a secret, because the artist covers his real identity so the listeners could not recognise him and link his parallel creations to his nowadays electronic explorations. In the recent time Violet Poison has released 4 records on such labels as Repitch Recordings, Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions and Bed Of Nails. It is important to mention that Violet Poison and Shapednoise collaborate on Violetshaped project and are the founders of Violet Poison label where they release their own production.

Records and connections

STM 104 is a thoughtful and scrupulous recording that melts over 40 prominent record cuts to form a sustained and exclusive audio collage. Each composition was re-worked in a real time after adding diverse sound effects and modulations to make it sound fresh and unexpected. Violet Poison said that “there is no future without past” so that is why he included works composed between 1954 and 2014, to show their relevance, longevity and of course his own musical sophistication. Taking pieces from this long period of time, Violet Poison manages to reduce the tension between compositions and develop a crystal contemporary wholeness. “This music hits every part of me and it is part of me, like an arm” says Violet Poison. Pretty layered viscous background of the mix and sometimes even subtly provocative, but very accurate mixing create solidity, richness and equanimity mood that clearly maintains listener’s concentration all the time. Feels like Violet Poison intuitively knows when and how to draw one’s attention through incorporating diverse sound shapes forming absolutely new characteristic textures of known pieces. Ascetic, but aesthetic melodies, cinematic atmospheres and sublime experimentations frequently merge into each other thus building a magnificent and timeless musical installation. Austere works by honourable pioneers of electronic music and modern classical composers such as John Cage, György Ligeti, Jean-Claude Risset, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen and other talents will enrich die-hard music lovers’ libraries. There are 2 new tracks by Violet Poison himself included also. Finally this fluent and thrilling recording is quite similar to Graham Sutherland’s abstract painting “Head III” where delicately painted creature lightly penetrates observer’s imagination and impress with its inventive structure.