Artist description two reclusive headz that made crooked beats and expansive droning soundscapes.///electro.fusion.core///

Music Style electro.fusion.core

Musical Influences Can,Throbbing Gristle, field recordings, Mice Parade,Skinny Puppy, Oval,Boredoms,Muslimgauze,Autechre

Similar Artists Boredoms,Meat Beat Manifesto, Can, Future Sound of London

Artist History DvsD formed summer of 2002, collapsed fall 2003.

Group Members Damiana(Saviour Leftovers), Dogasse(Vibraphile)

Albums Lift ep , Toy Safety Recall split w/ Mandible Duo

Press Reviews * "These two electronic/experimental music veterans play partially improvised soundscapes to abstract video collages. DvsD claim both the dub movement and Skinny Puppy as influences, and with keyboards, samplers, electronic drums, handheld percussion and micro-cassettes, they're easily the least commercial band playing City Market all year." -Jim Reed, Connect Savannah *** * "Carter and Pike's music rides the borders between techno, dub, and trance. They aim for an almost organic aesthetic both in recording and performing, which puts them at odds with ruling orthodoxies in electronic music." -John Bennet for The Campus Chronicle *** * "Hypnotic strings and choir voices coupled with a flood of percussive sounds...a harsher and more experimental version of Enigma, without the safe pop beat. In fact, DvsD accomplishes the transcendental trance mood that Enigma superficially replicates. Unconcerned with placating the audience with trendy dance beats, this techno set-up employs real musical mechanics and compositional talent to invoke a variety of changing moods. The energetic rhythyms contrast sharply with the smooth melodies, creating a soumd that is upbeat and livening, as well as eerily peaceful. The musicians are skilled at their instruments, keyboards and drums, and enhance the sound with snippets of out of context samples and phrases, as opposed to just playing us sampled music under the guise of the real thing *** Their live set is a living audio being continuously metamorphosing along well rendered transitions from one melody to another, often taking sharp right turns. Set up includes a stream of consciousness visual display--a random collage of images played on a monitor- adding an optical consort to the audio sampling. DvsD is not only a great band to listen and dance to, they are far more interesting than watching a dj spin records and bob his head. Anyone who is interested in electronica but dissapointed in the generic techno played at clubs should definitely be at the next DvsD show. " -Aami Stafford review from Nov23-2002 *** "Low-fi techno always seemed like a contradiction to me: if you're playing beat-oriented, minimalistic, electronic music, doesn't it have to have a certain...I don't know,polish?Exactitude? Maybe not everyone thinks that way, but I know I can't get all hypnotized by the pretty squeaks and honks form various branches of electronica unless it's really solid, precise stuff. The Savannah, GA duo of Damiana vs Dogasse obviously have a different philosophy, sounding like a low budget, art-school Enigma (Gregorian chant samples and that sort of thing) as they pummel their way through one loose, spacey groove after another. They make a point of using real instruments in addition to the preprogrammed stuff, and I give them credit for that. As a matter of fact, they sent two disks, one of them live. The second disk is more successful in stretches; the percussion gets very solid at times and when it does, the long awaited strong groove actually begins to happen...These guys have some good ideas, and they definitely have potential; they just have to start generating a tighter, cleaner sound if they want to appeal to more than just the avant-garde weirdness junkies." review from Step out of the line, music zine ,Columbia,SC ***"Semi-improvised electronic music which incorporates lots of samples and treated percussion. A bit heady at times,but overall an ambitious and frequently engaging band-Defiantly experimental local duo playing partially improvised jam rock on a variety of electronic ans synthetic instruments-a type of avant-garde electronic jam music that is by turns intriguing and meandering, yet they are the only ones in town mining this particular vein" Jim Reed, Connect Savannah

Location Savannah, Ga - USA

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