Current Value
Platinum Scatter
Boomkat Product Review:
Breathlessly tight D&B futurism by leader of the hard skool Current Value - highly touted by the likes of Aya and 96 Back, and with acute appeal to lovers of upfront sound designer club pressure from contemporary D&B to Slikback and Ploy.
Flying the flag for thee tuffest D&B since the late ‘90s, Current Value’s ruthlessly clinical style of production and its propulsive effect has seen his work played in Aphex Twin and Björk DJ sets, and by the hardest of hard D&B players since the Anger Management heyday. Fair to say we took our eye off his ball a while back, only to be shocked recently by ‘Platinum Scatter’; his 2nd album for Czech label Yuku, and a full frontal exposition of Current Value’s signature tekkerz galvanised with the keenest, vacuum-sealed finish, acidissonant edge and surprising lushness in the 2020s.
All 14 tracks betray a renewed interest in the technoid fundamentals of D&B as an offshoot of not just Caribbean-UK soundsystem science and hip hop, but also Detroit techno and European body music, and how those two originally interacted. Blessed with production values that recall the sleekness of early Lassigue Bendthaus’ EBM as much as DJ Stingray’s hydrodynamics, he also employs cutting edge compression techniques echoing Dillinja & Lemon D’s ruthlessness and the neuro-ticness of Bad Company, but dialled up to the most intense degrees.
From the range-finding opener ‘Focus Point’, he launches a stunning attack on the senses that triggers spines and limbs like a mad scientist with an electrode-stuffed frog. ‘Weight’ balances your mass in hyperspace with levitating, shearing Shepard tones and an appreciation of balletic pugilism that morphs into the wildest permissions of acidic hardcore techno on ‘Greed’ and adjunct kongo tekno styles in ‘Reverendous’, fomenting a massive highlight of breathlessly upward thizz in the title tune, and going like Slikback on bath salts in ‘Anchor’. Relative respite comes in the cinematic dynamism of ‘Miles to Go’, and the Tim Hecker-esque hyperplane of ‘Eternal Recurrence’, while he twists meat clean from bone on the shearing vortices of ‘Running State’ and flashes of almost jazz-funky chords retain vestiges of OG D&B techno-soul in ‘Deep Mind’, and ‘Procedure’ turns bones inside out with a hyper-articulated form of demonic animism.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Breathlessly tight D&B futurism by leader of the hard skool Current Value - highly touted by the likes of Aya and 96 Back, and with acute appeal to lovers of upfront sound designer club pressure from contemporary D&B to Slikback and Ploy.
Flying the flag for thee tuffest D&B since the late ‘90s, Current Value’s ruthlessly clinical style of production and its propulsive effect has seen his work played in Aphex Twin and Björk DJ sets, and by the hardest of hard D&B players since the Anger Management heyday. Fair to say we took our eye off his ball a while back, only to be shocked recently by ‘Platinum Scatter’; his 2nd album for Czech label Yuku, and a full frontal exposition of Current Value’s signature tekkerz galvanised with the keenest, vacuum-sealed finish, acidissonant edge and surprising lushness in the 2020s.
All 14 tracks betray a renewed interest in the technoid fundamentals of D&B as an offshoot of not just Caribbean-UK soundsystem science and hip hop, but also Detroit techno and European body music, and how those two originally interacted. Blessed with production values that recall the sleekness of early Lassigue Bendthaus’ EBM as much as DJ Stingray’s hydrodynamics, he also employs cutting edge compression techniques echoing Dillinja & Lemon D’s ruthlessness and the neuro-ticness of Bad Company, but dialled up to the most intense degrees.
From the range-finding opener ‘Focus Point’, he launches a stunning attack on the senses that triggers spines and limbs like a mad scientist with an electrode-stuffed frog. ‘Weight’ balances your mass in hyperspace with levitating, shearing Shepard tones and an appreciation of balletic pugilism that morphs into the wildest permissions of acidic hardcore techno on ‘Greed’ and adjunct kongo tekno styles in ‘Reverendous’, fomenting a massive highlight of breathlessly upward thizz in the title tune, and going like Slikback on bath salts in ‘Anchor’. Relative respite comes in the cinematic dynamism of ‘Miles to Go’, and the Tim Hecker-esque hyperplane of ‘Eternal Recurrence’, while he twists meat clean from bone on the shearing vortices of ‘Running State’ and flashes of almost jazz-funky chords retain vestiges of OG D&B techno-soul in ‘Deep Mind’, and ‘Procedure’ turns bones inside out with a hyper-articulated form of demonic animism.
Boomkat Product Review:
Breathlessly tight D&B futurism by leader of the hard skool Current Value - highly touted by the likes of Aya and 96 Back, and with acute appeal to lovers of upfront sound designer club pressure from contemporary D&B to Slikback and Ploy.
Flying the flag for thee tuffest D&B since the late ‘90s, Current Value’s ruthlessly clinical style of production and its propulsive effect has seen his work played in Aphex Twin and Björk DJ sets, and by the hardest of hard D&B players since the Anger Management heyday. Fair to say we took our eye off his ball a while back, only to be shocked recently by ‘Platinum Scatter’; his 2nd album for Czech label Yuku, and a full frontal exposition of Current Value’s signature tekkerz galvanised with the keenest, vacuum-sealed finish, acidissonant edge and surprising lushness in the 2020s.
All 14 tracks betray a renewed interest in the technoid fundamentals of D&B as an offshoot of not just Caribbean-UK soundsystem science and hip hop, but also Detroit techno and European body music, and how those two originally interacted. Blessed with production values that recall the sleekness of early Lassigue Bendthaus’ EBM as much as DJ Stingray’s hydrodynamics, he also employs cutting edge compression techniques echoing Dillinja & Lemon D’s ruthlessness and the neuro-ticness of Bad Company, but dialled up to the most intense degrees.
From the range-finding opener ‘Focus Point’, he launches a stunning attack on the senses that triggers spines and limbs like a mad scientist with an electrode-stuffed frog. ‘Weight’ balances your mass in hyperspace with levitating, shearing Shepard tones and an appreciation of balletic pugilism that morphs into the wildest permissions of acidic hardcore techno on ‘Greed’ and adjunct kongo tekno styles in ‘Reverendous’, fomenting a massive highlight of breathlessly upward thizz in the title tune, and going like Slikback on bath salts in ‘Anchor’. Relative respite comes in the cinematic dynamism of ‘Miles to Go’, and the Tim Hecker-esque hyperplane of ‘Eternal Recurrence’, while he twists meat clean from bone on the shearing vortices of ‘Running State’ and flashes of almost jazz-funky chords retain vestiges of OG D&B techno-soul in ‘Deep Mind’, and ‘Procedure’ turns bones inside out with a hyper-articulated form of demonic animism.
Boomkat Product Review:
Breathlessly tight D&B futurism by leader of the hard skool Current Value - highly touted by the likes of Aya and 96 Back, and with acute appeal to lovers of upfront sound designer club pressure from contemporary D&B to Slikback and Ploy.
Flying the flag for thee tuffest D&B since the late ‘90s, Current Value’s ruthlessly clinical style of production and its propulsive effect has seen his work played in Aphex Twin and Björk DJ sets, and by the hardest of hard D&B players since the Anger Management heyday. Fair to say we took our eye off his ball a while back, only to be shocked recently by ‘Platinum Scatter’; his 2nd album for Czech label Yuku, and a full frontal exposition of Current Value’s signature tekkerz galvanised with the keenest, vacuum-sealed finish, acidissonant edge and surprising lushness in the 2020s.
All 14 tracks betray a renewed interest in the technoid fundamentals of D&B as an offshoot of not just Caribbean-UK soundsystem science and hip hop, but also Detroit techno and European body music, and how those two originally interacted. Blessed with production values that recall the sleekness of early Lassigue Bendthaus’ EBM as much as DJ Stingray’s hydrodynamics, he also employs cutting edge compression techniques echoing Dillinja & Lemon D’s ruthlessness and the neuro-ticness of Bad Company, but dialled up to the most intense degrees.
From the range-finding opener ‘Focus Point’, he launches a stunning attack on the senses that triggers spines and limbs like a mad scientist with an electrode-stuffed frog. ‘Weight’ balances your mass in hyperspace with levitating, shearing Shepard tones and an appreciation of balletic pugilism that morphs into the wildest permissions of acidic hardcore techno on ‘Greed’ and adjunct kongo tekno styles in ‘Reverendous’, fomenting a massive highlight of breathlessly upward thizz in the title tune, and going like Slikback on bath salts in ‘Anchor’. Relative respite comes in the cinematic dynamism of ‘Miles to Go’, and the Tim Hecker-esque hyperplane of ‘Eternal Recurrence’, while he twists meat clean from bone on the shearing vortices of ‘Running State’ and flashes of almost jazz-funky chords retain vestiges of OG D&B techno-soul in ‘Deep Mind’, and ‘Procedure’ turns bones inside out with a hyper-articulated form of demonic animism.
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