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A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things
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bass clef - A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things
If you're able to produce the kind of bass-drops and low-end charges that inhabit much of this excellent debut album from Ralph Cumbers' Bass Clef project, you'll find yourself in very good company at the tail-end of 2006, a year that's ushered in Low-End theorists with the kind of feverish excitement not seen since the heady days of 1970's towering dub. Bass Clef don't quite straddle the tried and tested Dubstep templates that have become de rigueur for the scene as the months have passed, instead opting for a more schizophrenic approach that takes-in Cumbers' evidently well-worn collection of Idm, Dub and Jungle records, mashed up and re-processed with a heavy analogue underlay that gives each of the 13 tracks here much of their charm and untold heaviness. Not entirely unlike the Werk label's excellent Actress, Bass Clef don't discriminate against any given styles, pairing off Cumbers' Bristol roots against his current surroundings in Hackney - a sort of geographic trawl through bass culture that's incredibly modern yet well-grounded in over 30 years of beat science. "A Smile Is A Curve..." is precisely the kind of album the scene needs if it's to circumvent the faint whiff of fatigue starting to seep out of its pores. Like Boxcutter's "Oneiric" from early on this year it manages to be a jack of many trades and master of pretty much all of them - the proverbial having your cake and eating it, urban styles. Excellent.
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Digital Soundboy Recordings Ltd
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Punch Drunk Records
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Bass Clef heads up his first record of 2011, on Punch Drunk no less.
Punch Drunk Records
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Bristol-affiliated Hackneyite Bass Clef presents his best album to date - and on Punch Drunk, no less.
Punch Drunk Records
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Bristol-affiliated Hackneyite Bass Clef presents his best album to date - and on Punch Drunk, no less.
A Smile Is a Curve That Straightens Most Things
BLANK TAPES
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Damnation poisoned with rainbows
MAGIC & DREAMS
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This is something special – a collection of modular electronics from Ralph Cumbers aka Bass Clef.
EKOCLEF (EKOPLEKZ & BASS CLEF)
MAGIC & DREAMS
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Ekoplekz cements a strong year, here in collaboration with Ralph Cumbers aka Bassclef.
EL GUINCHO / BASS CLEF / PRINS THOMAS
Antillas (Bass Clef / Prins Thomas Mixes)
Young Turks
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Trebleo
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12" // £4.99
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BENGA & WALSH / MARLOW / GRAVIOUS
Bingo / Road Kill / Temple Ball
Hotflush Recordings
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LV FT ERROL BELLOT & DANDELION
Globetrotting / Takeover (Dub)
Hyperdub
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APPLE PIPS
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Applepips present two electro-reinforced steppers from Bristol's Orphan101.
