House Of Protection Embrace The Experimentechno Underworld with Spellbinding Single ‘Being One’.
“You’re the only machine keeping me alive.” - Stephen Harrison, ‘Being One’, House Of Protection 2024.
Doesn’t this declaration from guitarist/vocalist Stevis Harrison at the end of the first verse of the captivating experimentechno new song ‘Being One’ read like a love letter to the amazing art-form known as music?
It would make sense if this was the case, as Harrison and partner in percussion Aric Improta have committed most of their lives to music. Stevis is known mostly for his work with noisecore luminaries The Chariot, and Improta with his divine drumming for spacegaze rock trio Night Verses. The two became bandmates and family when they joined the post rapcore group Fever 333 in 2017; but after five years, two EPs and one studio album, the guitarist and percussionist both departed the riotous punk act.
House Of Protection emerged in 2024 with their lead single ‘It’s Supposed To Hurt’ showcasing a drum & bass punk fusion that would make The Prodigy ‘Boom Boom Tap’ in adoration. HoP followed up around a month later with the thunderous hardcore punk track ‘Learn To Forget’ that showcased an abrasiveness that Your Demise would praise immeasurably. Merely weeks later, the duo has returned to astound and amaze us with ‘Being One’ and it is magnificently mystifying.
‘Born Slippy Nuxx’ by British electronica outfit Underworld became an “anthem for a generation” (Music Week 1996) and the proclaimed heartbeat to the Academy Award Nominated Film Trainspotting. The essence of this powerful song is also found in House Of Protection’s ‘Being One’.
A bold statement undeniably, but once the poetry begins in the first verse after 15 seconds – that unbound enchantment is overwhelmingly felt. Stevis Harrison has never sounded so entrancing; moving effortlessly from trip-hop and remarkable rap outpourings to an angelic chorus that is as brilliantly beautiful as Greg Puciato’s charming croon in synthwave project The Black Queen.
Elements of Steve Aoki’s electro-pop euphoria is sprinkled throughout these four-minutes and unsurprisingly Aric Improta’s phenomenal percussive impact is rapturous. It is a sensational separation from the previous two singles; however, the artistic integrity and illustriousness flawlessly fits with what these two momentous musicians have crafted. This magic has been expertly captured by producer Jordan Fish (Bring Me The Horizon), exhibiting his uncanny ability to capture and diversify the virtuosity that musicians he works with possess.
“You’re the only machine keeping me alive.”
The world cannot wait to see how ALIVE House Of Protection becomes in the very near future.
Words by Will Oakeshott @TeenWolfWill
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