Run For Cover #6: Buben’s “Primogeniture”

Run for Cover No. 6 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. For the sixth edition, I decided to go for Netaudio-hardliner Buben and the haunting comic-artwork for his “Primogeniture” EP at Myuzyk Netlabel.

Central part of the front cover is an amphibian- or fish-like creature, lurking in the lower middle of the picture. Image a black water lurch or some kind of dark-skinned catfish. Long antennas or barbels arise from the creatures forehead. In a similar manner, additional “antennas” in different noxious colours are displayed. Broad white bands to the far left and right inspire the effect of looking at a mysterious aquatic creature, siting at the ground of a jolly brook. The artist’s name “Buben” is put on a sticker-like circle in the very middle of the artwork. Four bulky leaves bloom from this spot, sending a set of red spermatozoa (?) to the upper end of the artwork.

I like this cover for different reasons. The choice of color is as adventurous as ill-minded and disturbingly beautiful. In concert with the bright white elements and the zippy cartoon-style illustrations, any obvious Gothic clichés are avoided. Casual Fiend managed to create a certain kind of tension, derived from the chosen use of acute angles in a set-up of smooth curves, their specific idea of color and a vague, rural sexuality that eventually exists in my head solely. The title “Primogeniture” points in this direction at least.

MP3 IDM Music Download

Release: Buben - “Primogeniture”
Netlabel: www.myuzyk.net
Artist (Music): Vlasdislav Buben
Artist (Visual): Casual Fiend

About the Author

This article was written on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 by Bettina Rhymes. Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.