Laza
Chamas Do Cerrado
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Following 2019's rugged 'Megulho', Brazilian sound artist and club mangler Laza mashes together disconnected deconstructions on 'Chamas Do Cerrado', squashing drill, trance, funk, dembow and D&B modes into cinders. One for fans of Tayhana, Siete Catorce, or Galtier.
Lázaro Uilgner does a lot with very little here: on opener 'Rio Claro', he makes us wait through several minutes of blustery ambience before throwing a heaving drill 808 wobble and the faintest trace of a beat. He tales it further on 'Vale Da Lua', introducing stepped beats to interrupt the drill template, juxtaposing it with new age synths, watery sounds, angelic piano, jazz cuts and snippets of jungle. The sounds chaotic, but Laza is restrained, allowing each element to appear and disappear like flashes of light.
The tempo is pushed on the nauseous MDMA-fueled banger 'Cidade Abelha', playing spare Brazilian funk vocalizations against sickly trance arpeggios, while 'Lagoa Santa' is the EP's lightest moment, deploying jagged 8-bit drums around chunky dembow clonks, plastic pan-pipes and harpsichord chimes - it reminds of the tricky simplicity of '80s digi-dub, and that's a good thing in our book.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Following 2019's rugged 'Megulho', Brazilian sound artist and club mangler Laza mashes together disconnected deconstructions on 'Chamas Do Cerrado', squashing drill, trance, funk, dembow and D&B modes into cinders. One for fans of Tayhana, Siete Catorce, or Galtier.
Lázaro Uilgner does a lot with very little here: on opener 'Rio Claro', he makes us wait through several minutes of blustery ambience before throwing a heaving drill 808 wobble and the faintest trace of a beat. He tales it further on 'Vale Da Lua', introducing stepped beats to interrupt the drill template, juxtaposing it with new age synths, watery sounds, angelic piano, jazz cuts and snippets of jungle. The sounds chaotic, but Laza is restrained, allowing each element to appear and disappear like flashes of light.
The tempo is pushed on the nauseous MDMA-fueled banger 'Cidade Abelha', playing spare Brazilian funk vocalizations against sickly trance arpeggios, while 'Lagoa Santa' is the EP's lightest moment, deploying jagged 8-bit drums around chunky dembow clonks, plastic pan-pipes and harpsichord chimes - it reminds of the tricky simplicity of '80s digi-dub, and that's a good thing in our book.
Boomkat Product Review:
Following 2019's rugged 'Megulho', Brazilian sound artist and club mangler Laza mashes together disconnected deconstructions on 'Chamas Do Cerrado', squashing drill, trance, funk, dembow and D&B modes into cinders. One for fans of Tayhana, Siete Catorce, or Galtier.
Lázaro Uilgner does a lot with very little here: on opener 'Rio Claro', he makes us wait through several minutes of blustery ambience before throwing a heaving drill 808 wobble and the faintest trace of a beat. He tales it further on 'Vale Da Lua', introducing stepped beats to interrupt the drill template, juxtaposing it with new age synths, watery sounds, angelic piano, jazz cuts and snippets of jungle. The sounds chaotic, but Laza is restrained, allowing each element to appear and disappear like flashes of light.
The tempo is pushed on the nauseous MDMA-fueled banger 'Cidade Abelha', playing spare Brazilian funk vocalizations against sickly trance arpeggios, while 'Lagoa Santa' is the EP's lightest moment, deploying jagged 8-bit drums around chunky dembow clonks, plastic pan-pipes and harpsichord chimes - it reminds of the tricky simplicity of '80s digi-dub, and that's a good thing in our book.
Boomkat Product Review:
Following 2019's rugged 'Megulho', Brazilian sound artist and club mangler Laza mashes together disconnected deconstructions on 'Chamas Do Cerrado', squashing drill, trance, funk, dembow and D&B modes into cinders. One for fans of Tayhana, Siete Catorce, or Galtier.
Lázaro Uilgner does a lot with very little here: on opener 'Rio Claro', he makes us wait through several minutes of blustery ambience before throwing a heaving drill 808 wobble and the faintest trace of a beat. He tales it further on 'Vale Da Lua', introducing stepped beats to interrupt the drill template, juxtaposing it with new age synths, watery sounds, angelic piano, jazz cuts and snippets of jungle. The sounds chaotic, but Laza is restrained, allowing each element to appear and disappear like flashes of light.
The tempo is pushed on the nauseous MDMA-fueled banger 'Cidade Abelha', playing spare Brazilian funk vocalizations against sickly trance arpeggios, while 'Lagoa Santa' is the EP's lightest moment, deploying jagged 8-bit drums around chunky dembow clonks, plastic pan-pipes and harpsichord chimes - it reminds of the tricky simplicity of '80s digi-dub, and that's a good thing in our book.
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