Tempa's reboot continues with a fwd-thinking side from airlock club alchemist Evan Majumdar-Swift, who adulterates dubstep's sinewy roots with brain-scratching xenharmonic FM tweaks and rubbery rhythmic fluctuations. RIYL Mor Elian, aya, CCL, Blawan.
Keeping the momentum up after Slikback's rugged 'Data' inaugurated Tempa 2.0 in January, 'Catford Jewelzz' puts a lick of post-modern gloss on the kind of rhythms Coki, Benga and Skream were serving up when the label was in its infancy. The title track is a half-step stumbler that's tempered with downsampled breaks (see also 'Midnight Request Line'), but Majumdar-Swift's smart not to lean into churned nostalgia. The lysergic sound design - psy-trance adjacent xenorave risers for the DMT vape clique - instantly shuffles the track into new territory, and Majumdar-Swift's canny percussive tics keep things bubbly on the top end.
His MO is roughly the same on 'Venetian Blinds', but there's more tension here; Majumdar-Swift keeps the beat relatively sober - think Random Trio or Pinch - and takes the opportunity to hard-sear the additional ingredients, rendering down his rasping donks and lightly brûléeing the fractal, steadily evolving leads. Fans of his earlier electroid deployments will be pleased to know that's not been chucked out with the bathwater either: 'heavenn bent' welds analog improvisations to a gut-punching saturated stomp that's interrupted by hallucinatory vocal chops and off-axis claps.
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Tempa's reboot continues with a fwd-thinking side from airlock club alchemist Evan Majumdar-Swift, who adulterates dubstep's sinewy roots with brain-scratching xenharmonic FM tweaks and rubbery rhythmic fluctuations. RIYL Mor Elian, aya, CCL, Blawan.
Keeping the momentum up after Slikback's rugged 'Data' inaugurated Tempa 2.0 in January, 'Catford Jewelzz' puts a lick of post-modern gloss on the kind of rhythms Coki, Benga and Skream were serving up when the label was in its infancy. The title track is a half-step stumbler that's tempered with downsampled breaks (see also 'Midnight Request Line'), but Majumdar-Swift's smart not to lean into churned nostalgia. The lysergic sound design - psy-trance adjacent xenorave risers for the DMT vape clique - instantly shuffles the track into new territory, and Majumdar-Swift's canny percussive tics keep things bubbly on the top end.
His MO is roughly the same on 'Venetian Blinds', but there's more tension here; Majumdar-Swift keeps the beat relatively sober - think Random Trio or Pinch - and takes the opportunity to hard-sear the additional ingredients, rendering down his rasping donks and lightly brûléeing the fractal, steadily evolving leads. Fans of his earlier electroid deployments will be pleased to know that's not been chucked out with the bathwater either: 'heavenn bent' welds analog improvisations to a gut-punching saturated stomp that's interrupted by hallucinatory vocal chops and off-axis claps.
Tempa's reboot continues with a fwd-thinking side from airlock club alchemist Evan Majumdar-Swift, who adulterates dubstep's sinewy roots with brain-scratching xenharmonic FM tweaks and rubbery rhythmic fluctuations. RIYL Mor Elian, aya, CCL, Blawan.
Keeping the momentum up after Slikback's rugged 'Data' inaugurated Tempa 2.0 in January, 'Catford Jewelzz' puts a lick of post-modern gloss on the kind of rhythms Coki, Benga and Skream were serving up when the label was in its infancy. The title track is a half-step stumbler that's tempered with downsampled breaks (see also 'Midnight Request Line'), but Majumdar-Swift's smart not to lean into churned nostalgia. The lysergic sound design - psy-trance adjacent xenorave risers for the DMT vape clique - instantly shuffles the track into new territory, and Majumdar-Swift's canny percussive tics keep things bubbly on the top end.
His MO is roughly the same on 'Venetian Blinds', but there's more tension here; Majumdar-Swift keeps the beat relatively sober - think Random Trio or Pinch - and takes the opportunity to hard-sear the additional ingredients, rendering down his rasping donks and lightly brûléeing the fractal, steadily evolving leads. Fans of his earlier electroid deployments will be pleased to know that's not been chucked out with the bathwater either: 'heavenn bent' welds analog improvisations to a gut-punching saturated stomp that's interrupted by hallucinatory vocal chops and off-axis claps.
Tempa's reboot continues with a fwd-thinking side from airlock club alchemist Evan Majumdar-Swift, who adulterates dubstep's sinewy roots with brain-scratching xenharmonic FM tweaks and rubbery rhythmic fluctuations. RIYL Mor Elian, aya, CCL, Blawan.
Keeping the momentum up after Slikback's rugged 'Data' inaugurated Tempa 2.0 in January, 'Catford Jewelzz' puts a lick of post-modern gloss on the kind of rhythms Coki, Benga and Skream were serving up when the label was in its infancy. The title track is a half-step stumbler that's tempered with downsampled breaks (see also 'Midnight Request Line'), but Majumdar-Swift's smart not to lean into churned nostalgia. The lysergic sound design - psy-trance adjacent xenorave risers for the DMT vape clique - instantly shuffles the track into new territory, and Majumdar-Swift's canny percussive tics keep things bubbly on the top end.
His MO is roughly the same on 'Venetian Blinds', but there's more tension here; Majumdar-Swift keeps the beat relatively sober - think Random Trio or Pinch - and takes the opportunity to hard-sear the additional ingredients, rendering down his rasping donks and lightly brûléeing the fractal, steadily evolving leads. Fans of his earlier electroid deployments will be pleased to know that's not been chucked out with the bathwater either: 'heavenn bent' welds analog improvisations to a gut-punching saturated stomp that's interrupted by hallucinatory vocal chops and off-axis claps.