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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
KvP:
Monday is New Music Day!
Acre and Cosmic Revenge - Ghatt / Mind Eraser
Spare and sinewy future garage / bass music. The name "Acre" rings a bell but I can't place it. I'm a big Cosmic Revenge fan, though.
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Story - Story 004
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Maintaining their anonymous profile, the cats behind the Story series turn out another three deep dancers. 'Fascinated' is the main groove, a fresh mid-tempo winner with all the hallmarks of an expert production. 'Taj Mahal' is a little jazzier, mixing crooked rhythms with smoothly minimised chords, and 'You Better Find A job' rolls out dreamy electronics with a creamy bottom end. Fans of Sven Weisemann, Move D or Cottam.
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Subeena - Neurotic EP
I've got a huge, huge crush on Subeena and she's a pretty awesome producer, to boot. Your mileage may very on these particular tracks though - She makes her vocal debut here.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Subeena further develops her technoid post-dubstep sound on 'Neurotic', backed with Egyptrixx and Ghosts On Tape remixes. There's something of a bowing reggaeton flex to 'Neurotic', which Subeena really makes her own with the addition of a distinctive vocal accent. 'Wishful Talk' follows, focused on deep droning subs and rolling techno rhythms, again with her own vox. Egyptrixx takes this cut closer to the centre of the floor with bulky swing-jackin' rhythms and swooping bassline and Ghosts On tape dance around the matter with a cracking Broken Beat refix. One for fans of Ikonika, Altered Natives, Aramac, or the Night Slugs sound - recommended!
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Riya - Seems Like / The Cycle
Been waiting for months and months on this one.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Riya aka Laura Pacheko heads up the 2nd Autonomic transmission, lending vocals to productions from DBridge, and Mr O. Jones (Skream), with assistance from Mr D. Kirkham (half of Instra:mental). Most notably, the DBridge-produced 'Seems Like' opened the Autonomic FabricLive. 50 mix with its melancholy sci-fi steppers vibe, but the intense 4/4 throb of the 'The Cycle' on the flipside is exclusive to this plate. It sets a deadly momentum with relentless 140bpm kicks syncopated with pointillist snares and leavened with Riya's vox and efficiently deployed wisps of synth in the closing stages. As with the 1st Autonomic 12", the packaging is impeccable and the pressing primed for optimal output.
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Raffertie - Rank Functions EP
Raffertie really brings it here in a way I don't think he has in the past. Pretty thrilling. The Ital Tek is fittingly rad.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Raffertie inaugurates the Super label with four tracks of his mongrel rave sound. He's really steped his game up since we last heard him on the 'Pumpin Like Reeboks' EP, from the controlled yet bombastic thrust of 'Rank Functions', to the Kingdom-meets-Spatial kinda flex on 'His Counting House', and a technoid Joy Orbison or Duffsetp bounce on 'Horse Flesh'. Bringing up the rear, Ital Tek reworks 'Rank Functions' with slippery 2-step skip and embellished electronica elements. Heavy!
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KvP:
Also I have a pair of albums that aren't UK Dance music! Hooray!
Thread Pulls - New Thoughts
If you like groove-based art rock (and who doesn't?) you will love this.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Having so far garnered comparisons with everyone from Liars to This Heat, Throbbing Gristle and Sonic Youth, this band have a lot to live up to. New Thoughts captures the groove-driven, no-wave/industrial-inspired sounds of this Irish band, whose line-up is a stripped back duo comprising bass and drums, with vocals and occasional electronic elements seeping into the mix. It takes a lot of invention to make a setup like this work across the full duration of an album, but the angsty minimalism Thread Pulls summon up is more than up to the task, assisted greatly by a production that properly frames the full bulk of the band's rhythmic essence.
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Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Basically it's Salem if Salem was actually inspired. Deserves to be in the dub canon, really hypnotic.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Bit of a departure for the Old English Spelling bee, embracing scenic dubbed-out tapestries described by the label as a cross between Burial's sample-strewn claustrophobia and Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores...* The Olde English Spelling Bee label has lit up our week with this incredible debut from Forest Swords. Nope, we've never heard of them before either, but they're only based down the road in The Wirral so we'll send them a thank you message via carrier pigeon or something. 'Daggers Path' is a textured patch of personal sonic connections infusing outsider drone-folk and lo-fi pop with modern r'nb and vintage dub tropes that capture that feeling of Grouper jamming with the Velvets down at Tubby's that you forgot to remember that time you didn't imagine it. Central figure, M. Barnes, cyphers the same soulful impact you'd find in the vocal samples of a Burial record for instance, and shades them with a widescreen wash of lo-fi colours reminiscent of the inherent skyward drama found in his native coastal location, also embedding each track in slow-burnt dub basslines and dread guitar jangles which echo out across the low-lying landscape for miles around. On 'Hoylake Misst' there's even elements of Amon Düül, if they'd taken cues from Timbaland beating rhythms with pencils on his desk, or on 'Glory Gong' we feel like we're about to be dropped into some reggaeton bumper before the all the edges dissolve and we're left with ghostly male groans and plaintive guitar shimmers while some deft fingers on the desk rubs in dubbed out samples and the stodgy-slow bass keeps on heaving. It's love at first sight with this album and we reckon you'll fall for it too. Please don't sleep on this!
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Tom:
I've been listening to that Dagger Paths record for ages, it's definitely worth your bandwidth and time. Can't wait to see more from him.
KvP:
I have the deeeeluxe CD version coming in at some point, there's bound to be extra stuff in it.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Tom on 18 Oct 2010, 02:12 ---I've been listening to that Dagger Paths record for ages, it's definitely worth your bandwidth and time. Can't wait to see more from him.
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There already is some other stuff, mostly 7" and the like. I'll see about uploading the things I have in the near future.
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