Ghost Phone dial up the spectres of ‘90s R&B in an amorphous hour long mixtape for Berceuse Heroique, mapping its enduring influence over global club styles, particularly in the UK, ever since. Think vapour-huff'd 'n romantique business - a big RIYL if yr into Actress' Thriller gear, Burial, Mssingno or DJ Screw.
In pursuit of five years and eight 12” volumes of edits, ’Missed Calls From Paradise’ is perhaps the ultimate summation of Ghost Phone’s Janus-faced steez; revelling in a spectrum of vintage blooz for the couch and club. Chopped ’n screwed slow jams are the order of the day, plowing Afrobeats x weightless bliss-outs on the A-side, before ramping it along axes of deep house, UKF, broken beat, Jersey club, and 2-step on the flip.
They start blissfully slowly, stretching Tinashe's vocal until it's rubbery gloop, pairing it with empyrean chimes sounding like Romance on a Clams Casino kick. Intermingled with phone dials and voicemail, the duo circle this axis for the majority of the first side, dubbing slippery vocals alongside blunt, poppy leads and plummeting strings.
On the flip, we're ping-ponged around soundsystem cuts, each lifted by screwed diva snatches. That atmospheric smoke is still there, albeit relegated to background noise and occasional phantom reverberations, tipping from soulful jungle into garbled grime and beyond. Their UKG version of Blaque's iconic '808' is a pillowy highlight, into those pitchy flutes from Jelani Blackman's 'Hello'.
Nostalgia and fwd-facing murk all in one place? Unmissable, tbh.
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Ghost Phone dial up the spectres of ‘90s R&B in an amorphous hour long mixtape for Berceuse Heroique, mapping its enduring influence over global club styles, particularly in the UK, ever since. Think vapour-huff'd 'n romantique business - a big RIYL if yr into Actress' Thriller gear, Burial, Mssingno or DJ Screw.
In pursuit of five years and eight 12” volumes of edits, ’Missed Calls From Paradise’ is perhaps the ultimate summation of Ghost Phone’s Janus-faced steez; revelling in a spectrum of vintage blooz for the couch and club. Chopped ’n screwed slow jams are the order of the day, plowing Afrobeats x weightless bliss-outs on the A-side, before ramping it along axes of deep house, UKF, broken beat, Jersey club, and 2-step on the flip.
They start blissfully slowly, stretching Tinashe's vocal until it's rubbery gloop, pairing it with empyrean chimes sounding like Romance on a Clams Casino kick. Intermingled with phone dials and voicemail, the duo circle this axis for the majority of the first side, dubbing slippery vocals alongside blunt, poppy leads and plummeting strings.
On the flip, we're ping-ponged around soundsystem cuts, each lifted by screwed diva snatches. That atmospheric smoke is still there, albeit relegated to background noise and occasional phantom reverberations, tipping from soulful jungle into garbled grime and beyond. Their UKG version of Blaque's iconic '808' is a pillowy highlight, into those pitchy flutes from Jelani Blackman's 'Hello'.
Nostalgia and fwd-facing murk all in one place? Unmissable, tbh.