Slackk
Nice One
Boomkat Product Review:
Grime Tapes boss lad Slackk runs up a definitive, melody-drenched opus with ‘Nice One’, embracing grime, rap, synth-funk, slow/fast boogie futurism and amapiano mutations in a real one for fans of Rat Heart, Nammy Wams, Jamal Moss, Fatima Al Qadiri.
The Liverpool-to-London artist arrives at ‘Nice One’ a decade after his first productions for Numbers and UTTU framed him as UK dance music’s keenest mutator, squashing his deep roots in grime with UKF and boogie in a way that helped set the path for a decade in which he co-founded and ran the Boxed clubnight, incubator of grime’s 2nd/3rd waves.
‘Nice One’ is a charming 17-track testament to his keen ear for new movements in UK road music, laid out with a classic DIY feel for groove and melody that humbly acknowledges the UK’s urban centres as richly abundant with culture from across the world, from all compass points of Africa and its diaspora, to the tang of Arabic and SE Asian scales. He’s need one to play the game and sell himself, but he’s long been an absolute mine of knowledge online, from his Grimetapes.com facility to posts and in practice with Boxed, an absolute don if you ask us.
Switching style and pattern with overproof levels of melody, ‘Nice One’ epitomises Slackk’s make on UK music at every turn. The lushly harmonised Triton biz of ‘Swimmer’ triggers a hugely endearing near-hour long joyride across the spectrum, taking in the rudest Afrobeats of ‘How You Feel’ with up-and-comer Mez and ‘Quick Drum One’, beside old skool Ruff Sqwad feels in ‘Float Glass’ and screwed grime in ‘Chinatown II’, to Jon E Cash worship on ‘Eight Bars’ and romantic strains of late summer breeziness in ‘Drive Thru’, ‘Bell Glistens’ and ‘Triennale’. The killer halfstep of ’Tech Void’ feels like a Rat Heart nugg at full swang, and ‘MF Mirage’ and ‘MF X’ exert his particular spin on amapiano, while ‘Irrealidad’ twangs on mutant electro-soul ligaments, and ‘Form & Biz’ could almost be a stray Soundhack pearl.
Salute a real one.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Grime Tapes boss lad Slackk runs up a definitive, melody-drenched opus with ‘Nice One’, embracing grime, rap, synth-funk, slow/fast boogie futurism and amapiano mutations in a real one for fans of Rat Heart, Nammy Wams, Jamal Moss, Fatima Al Qadiri.
The Liverpool-to-London artist arrives at ‘Nice One’ a decade after his first productions for Numbers and UTTU framed him as UK dance music’s keenest mutator, squashing his deep roots in grime with UKF and boogie in a way that helped set the path for a decade in which he co-founded and ran the Boxed clubnight, incubator of grime’s 2nd/3rd waves.
‘Nice One’ is a charming 17-track testament to his keen ear for new movements in UK road music, laid out with a classic DIY feel for groove and melody that humbly acknowledges the UK’s urban centres as richly abundant with culture from across the world, from all compass points of Africa and its diaspora, to the tang of Arabic and SE Asian scales. He’s need one to play the game and sell himself, but he’s long been an absolute mine of knowledge online, from his Grimetapes.com facility to posts and in practice with Boxed, an absolute don if you ask us.
Switching style and pattern with overproof levels of melody, ‘Nice One’ epitomises Slackk’s make on UK music at every turn. The lushly harmonised Triton biz of ‘Swimmer’ triggers a hugely endearing near-hour long joyride across the spectrum, taking in the rudest Afrobeats of ‘How You Feel’ with up-and-comer Mez and ‘Quick Drum One’, beside old skool Ruff Sqwad feels in ‘Float Glass’ and screwed grime in ‘Chinatown II’, to Jon E Cash worship on ‘Eight Bars’ and romantic strains of late summer breeziness in ‘Drive Thru’, ‘Bell Glistens’ and ‘Triennale’. The killer halfstep of ’Tech Void’ feels like a Rat Heart nugg at full swang, and ‘MF Mirage’ and ‘MF X’ exert his particular spin on amapiano, while ‘Irrealidad’ twangs on mutant electro-soul ligaments, and ‘Form & Biz’ could almost be a stray Soundhack pearl.
Salute a real one.
Boomkat Product Review:
Grime Tapes boss lad Slackk runs up a definitive, melody-drenched opus with ‘Nice One’, embracing grime, rap, synth-funk, slow/fast boogie futurism and amapiano mutations in a real one for fans of Rat Heart, Nammy Wams, Jamal Moss, Fatima Al Qadiri.
The Liverpool-to-London artist arrives at ‘Nice One’ a decade after his first productions for Numbers and UTTU framed him as UK dance music’s keenest mutator, squashing his deep roots in grime with UKF and boogie in a way that helped set the path for a decade in which he co-founded and ran the Boxed clubnight, incubator of grime’s 2nd/3rd waves.
‘Nice One’ is a charming 17-track testament to his keen ear for new movements in UK road music, laid out with a classic DIY feel for groove and melody that humbly acknowledges the UK’s urban centres as richly abundant with culture from across the world, from all compass points of Africa and its diaspora, to the tang of Arabic and SE Asian scales. He’s need one to play the game and sell himself, but he’s long been an absolute mine of knowledge online, from his Grimetapes.com facility to posts and in practice with Boxed, an absolute don if you ask us.
Switching style and pattern with overproof levels of melody, ‘Nice One’ epitomises Slackk’s make on UK music at every turn. The lushly harmonised Triton biz of ‘Swimmer’ triggers a hugely endearing near-hour long joyride across the spectrum, taking in the rudest Afrobeats of ‘How You Feel’ with up-and-comer Mez and ‘Quick Drum One’, beside old skool Ruff Sqwad feels in ‘Float Glass’ and screwed grime in ‘Chinatown II’, to Jon E Cash worship on ‘Eight Bars’ and romantic strains of late summer breeziness in ‘Drive Thru’, ‘Bell Glistens’ and ‘Triennale’. The killer halfstep of ’Tech Void’ feels like a Rat Heart nugg at full swang, and ‘MF Mirage’ and ‘MF X’ exert his particular spin on amapiano, while ‘Irrealidad’ twangs on mutant electro-soul ligaments, and ‘Form & Biz’ could almost be a stray Soundhack pearl.
Salute a real one.
Boomkat Product Review:
Grime Tapes boss lad Slackk runs up a definitive, melody-drenched opus with ‘Nice One’, embracing grime, rap, synth-funk, slow/fast boogie futurism and amapiano mutations in a real one for fans of Rat Heart, Nammy Wams, Jamal Moss, Fatima Al Qadiri.
The Liverpool-to-London artist arrives at ‘Nice One’ a decade after his first productions for Numbers and UTTU framed him as UK dance music’s keenest mutator, squashing his deep roots in grime with UKF and boogie in a way that helped set the path for a decade in which he co-founded and ran the Boxed clubnight, incubator of grime’s 2nd/3rd waves.
‘Nice One’ is a charming 17-track testament to his keen ear for new movements in UK road music, laid out with a classic DIY feel for groove and melody that humbly acknowledges the UK’s urban centres as richly abundant with culture from across the world, from all compass points of Africa and its diaspora, to the tang of Arabic and SE Asian scales. He’s need one to play the game and sell himself, but he’s long been an absolute mine of knowledge online, from his Grimetapes.com facility to posts and in practice with Boxed, an absolute don if you ask us.
Switching style and pattern with overproof levels of melody, ‘Nice One’ epitomises Slackk’s make on UK music at every turn. The lushly harmonised Triton biz of ‘Swimmer’ triggers a hugely endearing near-hour long joyride across the spectrum, taking in the rudest Afrobeats of ‘How You Feel’ with up-and-comer Mez and ‘Quick Drum One’, beside old skool Ruff Sqwad feels in ‘Float Glass’ and screwed grime in ‘Chinatown II’, to Jon E Cash worship on ‘Eight Bars’ and romantic strains of late summer breeziness in ‘Drive Thru’, ‘Bell Glistens’ and ‘Triennale’. The killer halfstep of ’Tech Void’ feels like a Rat Heart nugg at full swang, and ‘MF Mirage’ and ‘MF X’ exert his particular spin on amapiano, while ‘Irrealidad’ twangs on mutant electro-soul ligaments, and ‘Form & Biz’ could almost be a stray Soundhack pearl.
Salute a real one.
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