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Monday, 25 January
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**Includes an exclusive remix by Illum Sphere**
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A bit of a treat from the forever intriguing Mordant posse, packaging up a 12" of brilliantly weird and epic proportions with a bonus 8-track CD album and an assortment of strange Mordant paraphernalia thrown in for good measure. This is the debut Vindicatrix release on Mordant following on from that excellent remix collaboration with Shackleton from a few months back, and it takes us further down a road of pulsating percussive arrangements, heavy heavy bass structures and one of the weirdest vocal appearances you'll likely ever hear. The effect is brilliantly jarring and pretty much impossible to describe, with frames of refer… Read more
Nu-skool garage prefect Sully drops his hugely anticipated winner for Blackdown's Keysound crew. Sully's been rolling with the best of them in the last few years, building a rep with neo-classics like Fact mag's fave 'Phonebox' and the choice 'Jackman's Rec' both for the Frijsfo Beats label. He's blatantly produced some of his best work yet for Keysound, stepping up a remix of J Treole's 'The Loot' with the kind of tool-sharpened percussive swing that makes limbs twitch uncontrollably while stuttering garage vox and coolin' rhodes chords give that signature London feel (despite hailing from Norwich). In our opinion, though, 'In… Read more
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Seemingly dropping out of nowhere, the Flying Lotus-produced José James gets remixed in remarkable styles by men-of-the-moment, Joy Orbison and Untold. James' 'The Dreamer' was something of a hit with the soul jazz fraternity last year, picked up and released on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label to resounding acclaim centred around his richly mellifluous baritone. In an inspired A&R move the label has drawn for two stealthily tender reworks making fantastic use of those vocals. Joy Orbison's 'Recreation' is only his second release to date but manages to yet again deliver spine-tingling results with flighty yet robust 2-step rh… Read more
The starting point for composer Robert Curgenven's work is his Transparence dubplate, developed as part of the O'A.I.R. Artist In Residence program at O'Artoteca, Milan. The dubplate was created from feedback recordings that were run through the O' gallery space, resulting in a drone signal capturing the subtle resonances of the room. Curgenven uses the dubplate as an instrument in its own right, played back into another space as a means of interacting the original Transparence signal with the acoustics of its new playback venue. Further complicating matters, Curgenven's dubplate is of course in a constant state of decay, in th… Read more
After appearances in numerous end-of-year charts, Raffertie continues to meddle with the DNA of UK dance music on two ready made anthems. Both tracks have been given the seal of approval by both Mary-Anne Hobbs and Simon Reynolds (but we're sure the kids are down with them too), and currently feature on the playlists of some of the biggest rave mongers arounds. The more ballistic side of Rafferties oeuvre is shown on the blazing '7th Dimension' with crushed house beats alloyed to swooping bass wobbles and head searing synths, while the oddly affecting 'String Theory' should only add to his fanbase with an impressive grasp of ba… Read more
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Konntinet is the moniker adopted by Anthony Harrison, previously seen on labels like Symbolic Interaction and Dynamophone Records. This Home Normal release is surely his highest profile work to date however, notably aided by a Taylor Deupree mastering job. In fact, much of the material on Opal Island wouldn't sound too out of place on 12k, although the release strays beyond the parameters of archetypal microsound-based material when Harrison's guitar gets involved. In these moments the album shifts over into a more post-rock styled mode that's perhaps comparable to some of Mark Nelson's Pan American material (listen to the d… Read more
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New Zealand's Consequence came into contact with Exit Records head D-Bridge on a tour of his country. D-Bridge was hugely impressed with the techy, emotionally driven style and enlisted Consequence into the Autonomic podcast/events alongside similar minded players/producers like Instra:mental and ASC. 'Live For Never' is his debut album, featuring contributions from the aforementioned peers with ASC appearing on the brooding 'From A Distance', dBridge enhancing the Vangelis-meets-Bassbins sound of 'Life Is Timing' and Instra:mental tightening the torque of 'Reflex Reaction'. On his own, Consequence creates vivid scapes informed… Read more
Brilliant techy gear from Consequence, crafting three tracks of future D'n'B slickness for fans of D-Bridge, Instra:mental or Photek. 'Pseudo Echo' covers D'n'B tempos on the A-side with a widecreen spatiality that only those aforementioned auteurs can really achieve, while the flipside slides down a gear to slippy post-garage syncopations and half-stepped D'n'B with luxuriant electronica atmospheres to win over any Burial or Breakage heads. Very good stuff.
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