Producer Karen Felixx wastes no time messing with one’s head. The Scarlet EP comes after a pretty solid year from her, where she used pounding at at times haywire sounds to create some wonderfully jarring electronic music. On her latest, opener “Jasmine Jam” teases something relatively straightforward, before feedback creeps in and everything slows to…
Loud and crushing can be just as good as anything else. Producer Karen Felixx’s Colorless Girl runs with this hypothesis, and comes out with a solid album of heavy — but still making way for moments of melodic escape — tracks. Numbers such as “Dark Love” and “So Sorry” pile up on distorted elements —…
I’m always up for electronic tracks that, to some degree, constrict the listener tightly. Karen Felixx’s “Mad Edge” does just that, the techno number leaning close to the House Of Tapes approach where, despite a present melody and nice beat, the whole song gets turned into a crusher. Distortion and moments where the volume is…