Footwork innovator RP Boo teams up with London's XT (drummer Paul Abbott and saxophonist Seymour Wright) on this properly hybridised set, neatly integrating his signature rolling subs, unstable synths and chattering samples with the duo's studied, free-improvised skronk.
Recorded live at Cafe OTO in 2021, 'YESYESPEAKERSYES' documents the trio's fourth meeting, with RP Boo, operating under his real name Kavain Wayne Space, on CDJs, Abbott on "real and imaginary drums" and Wright on "actual and potential saxophone". And it's a blistering set; XT clearly have a passion for footwork, and seem to know exactly when to add the fire and when to hold back. Space is also sharply tuned in, stripping his tracks back to stuttering loops and letting them form repeating mantras for Abbott and Wright to split apart at their will.
We haven't heard anything quite like this before, but it makes stylistic sense - the jazz, funk and R&B that underpins Chicago's footwork doesn't have to be only sampled, and XT are careful, studied listeners. Fractalizing the familiar elements - the polyrhythmic beatbox rushes, the acidic squelches, punctuating claps and snares - Space makes salient connections that treat footwork with the respect it deserves.
Together, the trio re-imagine dance music outside of contemporary conventions. The genres aren't dissolved, but woken out of slumber and formed into a new kind of dance technology that brings history back to the present. The original hour-long improvisation is included here in full, to complement the snappier, half-hour edited LP - it's a trip, essential listening for anyone who's interested in not only where footwork might go, but where it emerged from in the first place.
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With artwork by Benedict Drew and text by Edward George (Strangeness of Dub). Includes bonus download card for the full, unedited live set from Cafe OTO.
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Footwork innovator RP Boo teams up with London's XT (drummer Paul Abbott and saxophonist Seymour Wright) on this properly hybridised set, neatly integrating his signature rolling subs, unstable synths and chattering samples with the duo's studied, free-improvised skronk.
Recorded live at Cafe OTO in 2021, 'YESYESPEAKERSYES' documents the trio's fourth meeting, with RP Boo, operating under his real name Kavain Wayne Space, on CDJs, Abbott on "real and imaginary drums" and Wright on "actual and potential saxophone". And it's a blistering set; XT clearly have a passion for footwork, and seem to know exactly when to add the fire and when to hold back. Space is also sharply tuned in, stripping his tracks back to stuttering loops and letting them form repeating mantras for Abbott and Wright to split apart at their will.
We haven't heard anything quite like this before, but it makes stylistic sense - the jazz, funk and R&B that underpins Chicago's footwork doesn't have to be only sampled, and XT are careful, studied listeners. Fractalizing the familiar elements - the polyrhythmic beatbox rushes, the acidic squelches, punctuating claps and snares - Space makes salient connections that treat footwork with the respect it deserves.
Together, the trio re-imagine dance music outside of contemporary conventions. The genres aren't dissolved, but woken out of slumber and formed into a new kind of dance technology that brings history back to the present. The original hour-long improvisation is included here in full, to complement the snappier, half-hour edited LP - it's a trip, essential listening for anyone who's interested in not only where footwork might go, but where it emerged from in the first place.