Live Review: Villette & Troy Samuela ‘Ruby’

One of the most prominent things that came out of video games, and that has particularly been made most memorable, was in fact the music that accompanied your rampant frustration.

It was the glitchy technoids of the small loops and 8-bit tendencies that remain most memorable to me. But it’s cool maybe 20 years on that the sounds still play as obvious influence to a lot of the dance we hear today.

VILLETTE & TROY SAMUELA have just dropped their mind-blowing single ’Ruby’.

It has the 8-bit kind of technological glitch feel that video game music tended to have and the haunting quality of it feels like a boss level in any of the earlier Mario games.

However, it’s much more than that. The production is so skilled. There’s an intense load of bass tucked away in there, and it warps and bounces to to the distracting degree that the main synth and sample brings.

It’s an obscure track, but I think that’s why it’s so fascinating. On face value, it seems like a mash of sounds and symbols all thrown together. However once you dive a little bit deeper, ‘Ruby’ is this megalomash of psychotic tendencies fuelled by a realm of electronic possibilities.

Words by Caitlin Medcalf

LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC HERE

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