Gila’s deadly drummer’s instincts allow him to glance the grid in devilish polyrhythms on a definitive 2nd album with London’s hip hop prism pushers, Lex Records - RIYL Kaman Leung, AFX, 4Hero, Andy Stott.
Five years since their debut EP + LP for Lex, ‘Domain Expansion’ finds Gila’s ruggedly bass-heavy swang open out and upward with an infusion of vibrant instrumental touches and atmospheric diffusion that feels to our ears to characterise and expound upon David Toop’s riffs on hiphop and ambient music limned in the ‘Ocean of Sound’ tome. Guided by the same unravelling of jazz that went into hip hop and its offshoots jungle and experimental beat music, Gila continues to turn the limitations of rheumatoid arthritis that curtailed his sticksmanship, via laptop and nano-metric programming syncopation, into killer slants on up-to-the-second but timeless rhythms that still shuffle, fizz and tick with the grit and dextrous discipline of a crackshot live drummer.
Metaphorically snapping necks and sending heads reeling into space, Gila’s wares are honed and heightened to serious degrees on this lot. Judiciously balancing the atmospheric and rude quotas in a way akin to blissed rave, jungle and broken beats, he teases it in with the weightless rave-adjacent pressure of ‘Club Alone’, and laces his swang with sneaking mentasms a la Kaman Leung or Wasteland in ‘Empty House of Can’, measuring out delicious slices of ambient bass pressure in ‘Twocking Choral’ and balancing crushing subs with piquant Eastern motifs and a cool hand on the slow/fast meter in ‘Electrified Tea Garden’ like Kode 9’s brother from a different mutha.
The jungle inspiration comes deep into effect on the lip-bitingly tight zinger ‘Long Distance Crash’, and like Cousin Cockroach meets golden era DJ Shadow in ‘Fruitful Angst’, and like some ‘Parallel Universe’ era 4Hero with ‘Increased Dose’, with the lush, pitchbent pressure drop of ‘Keygen In a Padded Room’ and ‘Infinite 5AM Youtube’ setting him in Refreshers territory, before locking it off on Loefah-like halfstep with ‘Floormancer’. Drums for days, we tell ya!
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Gila’s deadly drummer’s instincts allow him to glance the grid in devilish polyrhythms on a definitive 2nd album with London’s hip hop prism pushers, Lex Records - RIYL Kaman Leung, AFX, 4Hero, Andy Stott.
Five years since their debut EP + LP for Lex, ‘Domain Expansion’ finds Gila’s ruggedly bass-heavy swang open out and upward with an infusion of vibrant instrumental touches and atmospheric diffusion that feels to our ears to characterise and expound upon David Toop’s riffs on hiphop and ambient music limned in the ‘Ocean of Sound’ tome. Guided by the same unravelling of jazz that went into hip hop and its offshoots jungle and experimental beat music, Gila continues to turn the limitations of rheumatoid arthritis that curtailed his sticksmanship, via laptop and nano-metric programming syncopation, into killer slants on up-to-the-second but timeless rhythms that still shuffle, fizz and tick with the grit and dextrous discipline of a crackshot live drummer.
Metaphorically snapping necks and sending heads reeling into space, Gila’s wares are honed and heightened to serious degrees on this lot. Judiciously balancing the atmospheric and rude quotas in a way akin to blissed rave, jungle and broken beats, he teases it in with the weightless rave-adjacent pressure of ‘Club Alone’, and laces his swang with sneaking mentasms a la Kaman Leung or Wasteland in ‘Empty House of Can’, measuring out delicious slices of ambient bass pressure in ‘Twocking Choral’ and balancing crushing subs with piquant Eastern motifs and a cool hand on the slow/fast meter in ‘Electrified Tea Garden’ like Kode 9’s brother from a different mutha.
The jungle inspiration comes deep into effect on the lip-bitingly tight zinger ‘Long Distance Crash’, and like Cousin Cockroach meets golden era DJ Shadow in ‘Fruitful Angst’, and like some ‘Parallel Universe’ era 4Hero with ‘Increased Dose’, with the lush, pitchbent pressure drop of ‘Keygen In a Padded Room’ and ‘Infinite 5AM Youtube’ setting him in Refreshers territory, before locking it off on Loefah-like halfstep with ‘Floormancer’. Drums for days, we tell ya!
TIP!