Unfairly so. He produced some of the most hostile, nasty, tenacious, teeth-bashing Hardcore Techno tracks ever. His tracks often abandon the "groovy" and "party" roots of Acid House, replacing it with the sound of noise, screams, and an overdose of bass. The acid bleeps that are so characteristic for the genre, often get manipulated and modulated to such a degree that they sound more like the electronic lament of a tortured creature. While the reverberated vocal samples sound as if they are piercing through, into this universe from another.
Brandon's known for his political radicalism: working class, anti-authoritarian (he once said "I'm an anarchist but I hate the term and the movement"; and this revolutionary anger, spite, and fury obviously bleeds into his tracks, and this is likely what makes a lot of them 'rougher than the rest'.
It's not all noise and distortion, though; he is apt and producing acid, electro, and techno of the calmer variety, too.
Unlike other artists, he didn't stop by the 90s, but continues to produce music to this day.
10 tracks produced or co-produced by Brandon Spivey
- Collective Strength - Family Affair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6Vn7nUkGA
- A'Simetric - Take To The Skies - Weapons Grade Acid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82TimynVFIo
- Brandon Spivey - Acid 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolhgJrpcE
- Habitual Offenders - Cutting Edge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba7kC_j0Bro
- Simetric - Weather Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omIdPM8b8VE
- Brandon Spivey - Phase Distortion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9Sft5Oj-U
- Brandon Spivey - Reality Asylum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaN8JOAb73A
- Brandon Spivey & Richie Anderson - Night Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDo6sWgtWfs&t=586s
- Prole Synthesis - Reference Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfG5TxdEk8
- Agro - Undisputed Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArvG2WuMpVI
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