Sextreme trap?! Mssing ambitions.

MssngNo

2013, 2016 / 2 x ep / Goon Club Allstars, XL Recordings 
full, floor functional, sexy, trippy

MssngNo EP

[7.0] silicon
RA: 4,5/5

1. Skeezers
2. XE3
3. XE2
4. 124th

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Fones EP

[9.3] carborundum

1. Dead

2. Fones

3. Inta

4. Scope

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Kariera brytyjskiego producenta nabiera niesamowitego rozmachu, samemu będąc produkcyjnie rozmachu niepełnym. Szybkie strzały z karabinu i z nagła podsycany ogień zawarty w utworach powstawał na kanwie powolnego rozwoju muzycznego w Leeds, a wielokrotne peany n/t pierwszego, niezwykle krotkiego, acz treściwego wydawnictwa nie sprowokowały tworcy do podania swych personaliow i przyspieszenia prac nad kolejną flirtującą z gawiedzią pochłoniętą w ekstazie epką. Jak sam wspomina czekał długo na wenę by zainicjować prawdziwy big-bang na scenie. Po drodze czekały go pewne perypetie, m.in. zgubienie laptopa z ostateczną wersją bangera 'Drugs Don't Work", ktory musiał być krok po kroku odtwarzany z pamięci na nowo, a samo wydarzenie być może stało się inspiracją do takiego a nie innego nazwania swego kolejnego projektu.

Artysta porusza się w stylistyce grime'u, r&b, trip-hopu i rapu, czyli trapu, sprawnie miksując spitchowane wokale z pełnymi wdzięku, nieocenzurowanymi, napełnionymi ciałami jamistymi synthow w pełnej erekcji. Rozsypane zwiewnie delikatne, zaszumione, klasyczne dla gatunku haty, pełzające kicki, metalowe puszki czy gdzie indziej clapy - wspołgrają z mocnymi, wcale niepodkręconymi ale niesamowicie pełnymi synthami, kontrastującymi z niespotykanymi blipami, niespodziankami brzmieniowymi, np. promiennymi, czystymi błyskami, krystalicznymi ksylofonami i pozytywkami.

To co łączy utwory to spiczowane wokale wyrwane z r&b, rozciągnięte w echo jak toffi i imprezowa, rozerotyzowana do granic atmosfera.

o tyle, o ile debiut został potraktowany z należytą powagą, o tyle Fones EP wydaje mi się nieco niedoceniony, a jest zwyczajnie pełniejszy, z kolei niekoniecznie dojrzalszy [to ciągle niezbyt ambitna, super-podkręcająca machina rozkołysanych bitow]. Fones to moja ulubiona kompozycja: psychodeliczne błyskotki, nieco nostalgiczny synth i gardłowy bassline mierzy się z intymnym wokalem przypominającym skwaśniałą wersję Cooly G, z kolei Scope mogłby spokojnie rywalizować z najlepszymi popływami Jokera.

Sextreme, ktora chce zamoczyć na haju! Enjoy!

Gdy ukazałam się temu, co od wodki łzy wylewał.

Deetron - Fabric 76

16 june 2014 / CD, mixed / Fabric, fabric151

deep house, acid {house}, techno

seducing, lovely, eclectic, bouncy

[7.0] silicon

tracklist {discogs}

Jestem święcie przeświadczona, że ogoł nie docenił szwajcarskiej maszynerii urokliwego DJ-a i producenta, seksownego dla niejednej, -go, beardmana, w ktorego pokoju hotelowym po każdej z imprez wiją się ciała w miłosnych uniesieniach. Jakże by inaczej, tworca tak sprawnych i urodziwych miksow gotow jest do niejednego grzechu. 

Kreatura konglomeratu otwiera podwoje jak gdyby kontynuacją poprzedzającego go miksu, ktory zostaje wielką niewiadomą dla uszu. Początkowy serw to cztery kompozycje na amerykańską modłę pogranicza Detroit i Chicago, pełne niezwykle przyjemnych, ale i bezpiecznych bitow okraszonych atmosferycznymi klawiszami, przerwanych tandeciarskim Soulphiction, o przewidywalnym tekście i fatalnej linii basu. 

Utwory są bardzo szybko przemiksowywane, poloopowane, bardzo trudno zorientować się, jakie członki należą do jakich ciał. Nieoczywiste, kwaśne, odhumanizowane tłoki z mechanicznymi loopami wokalnymi bardzo ładnie dynamizują całość, Juxta Position i Redshape. Ekstremalnie zwinnie i chybko wpleciony pewniak każdej z imprez, Ripperton, wprowadza w niczym nieskrępowany bounce, uciekający w krainę totalnego zapomnienia, elektronicznej ekstazy.

Gdzieś tam w połowie zaczynają wkurwiać detroitowe przyśpiewki i zabezpieczony rożowym kondomem o smaku truskawki oklepany sznyt, ktory być może zostaje uratowany przez klasyk G2G.

Gdzieś do 16-stki, lub włącznie - dla tych, ktorzy są muzycznie obeznani, a mowa tu o kolejnym szlagierze Presk - zawiewa nudą i jarmarkiem, słuchanym 300 tysięcy papierosow temu.

ondo Fudd to piękny już nie tak grywalny utwor spowity surową enigmą śpiewu cyberpunkowych ptakow z jednej ze Superziemii, skłaniający do refleksji.

Niedługo zostajemy w kosmicznej refleksji nad gatunkiem, Four Tet w kolabo z Terror Danjah wyskakuje z bangerem sypiących perkusjonaliow i prężnym jak jaguar - basem.

To, co się dzieje potem zostawiam Waszym uszom, niejeden smaczek się jeszcze pojawi, m.in. surowy Joe - Slope lub wzniosłe zakończenie utworu Functiona. Wygnijcie ze mną falistą blachę deepu, acidu, techno i mikołajowych słodyczy!

Przy całej tej ekscytacji trzeba przyznać, że miksiwo to, do rownych nie należy, acz jest eklektyczne i pomysłowe, nieco za bardzo przebojowe, to potwierdzić należy! Niejeden dźwięk wwierci się w uszy na dłużej.

Deetron Fabric 76 to średnio wytworny taniec o koncepcie poza wszelką logiką, z postrzelonymi kręgami szyjnymi wykwitający pod sufitem wyobraźni.

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Shlohmo - Camping EP [2010, file, fof music]

10 june 2010

lbl: FoF Music

electronic

abstract hip-hop, ambient, dubstep

320kbps

01. Naps

02. Birthday Beat

03. Tomato Smash

04. Sippy Cup

05. Post Atmosphere (Baths Remix)

06. Sppons (Shigeto Remix)

07. Teeth (Asura Remix)

note: "Better known to friends, family, and Friends of Friends, as the 20-year-old Henry Laufer, the SF-by-LA producer Shlohmo returns with Camping, a digi-EP celebrating the May 24th first-run vinyl release of this year’s Shlohmoshun Deluxe LP. Having already headlined LA’s premiere beat-based party, Low End Theory as well as being featured by XLR8R, the BBC (Mary Anne Hobbs), LA Times and more, Shlohmo is on the tip of the ear for those attuned to the spaced out beat scene led by Flying Lotus, Ras G, & Nosaj Thing, among others…

As far as titles go, Camping is particularly apropos; the outdoor and indoor collide as Shlohmo’s selection of found sounds rub up against the technology of 8-bit blap & subwoofer stress tests in three new tracks. Additional amenities include remixes from hotly tipped LA music maker Baths and fellow up-and-comer Asura (on the new LA label, Non Projects) as well as recent Ghostly International signing Shigeto. There’s also a rework from Shloh’ himself, flipping Shlohmoshun Deluxe opener “Tomato Squeeze” into “Tomato Smash.” Camping comes just as Shlohmo stakes out a brand new full-length and will surely tide those itching to hear what Mr. Laufer has in store for us in the near future!" - FoF Music.

stylistyczne koło artystowskiej fortuny zatrzymuje się w środku między poprzednimi epkami. wydaje się, że wystarczy jedynie zgrubna odpowiedź na automatycznie nasuwające się pytanie: 'co się stanie kiedy wymieszamy przepyszny low-fi ambient z jaskiniowym dubstepem?'. 

śpieszę z odpowiedzią bez zbędnej woalki: ano powstanie nieco zalękniona, a i wyjątkowo leniwa hybryda flying lotusa, blue daisy i rasa g, której części składowe stanowią; nieśmiało poszarpany rytm; momentami przypominające gitarowe riffy, zadziorne syntezatory wygrywające proste melodyjki; zabrudzone sample [modnie mówi się, że takowe sample są 'upalone'], powplatane wokale i przeszkadzajki. zabiegi proste acz skuteczne, bez zaskoków.

uwaga: całkowicie nietrafione remiksy.

[7.0] without remixes.

timid tiger's combat songs [RS]

& [HF]

Roof Light - Harlem Power EP [2010, file, prolific recordings]

7 june 2010

lbl: Prolific Recordings

#: PROPH120

electronic

dubstep, uk garage

320kbps

1. Harlem Power 

2. Two Cities (dub)

3. Touch Down

4. Gunfighter In Negative

note: "Released on MJ Cole's Prolific label, London producer Roof Light really excels on this EP, and shows a love and mastery of a variety of different sounds, styles and skills. The MJ Cole connection shines through on the title track, with a multicoloured palette of funky sounds and samples all mixed together perfectly to create a fresh and soulful garage stepper. But while "Harlem Power" is bright and summery, "Two Cities" is an intense, Burial-esque moodscape, while "Touch Down" is a real event - the beat slowly subsides, leaving a sea of gorgeous reversed pads, only to slowly build itself up again in a variety of ways. An unexpected, random, yet riveting and affecting EP from start to finish." - Juno.

troche zagubiony, stylistycznie rozszczepiony popisuje sie umiejetnosciami samplingu.

[7.0]

deal with the future skill

& buy mp3s. [£3.79]

Sigha - Shake [2010, vinyl, hotflush recordings]

24 may 2010

lbl: Hotflush Recordings

#: HFT011  

electronic

dub techno, ambient

320kbps

01. Shake                                               

02. Shapes                                              

03. Light Swells (In A Distant Space)  

note: The music of London producer Sigha has always felt incongruous with its surroundings, too laid back and dubby to fit in with British techno, but certainly not dubstep either with its stubborn 4/4 pulse. With the Shake EP, his first of 2010 and the follow-up to the unfortunately slept on Rawww EP from last year (both on Scuba’s Hotflush Recordings), he mines a more inviting style that could be outright pretty if it had a little meat on its bones.

Made up of tiny, barely audible sounds, Sigha’s techno is clearly influenced by the micro-house and minimal techno that ruled much of the last decade, but he moulds it into a form more fitting to the currently dominant Berlin scene. Where producers such as Shed (under his various white label aliases) construct skeletal tools out of basic elements, the music here is bewilderingly dense and complex, always something sounding off in some distant corner.

The title track rumbles to a start with murmurs and hums until Sigha drops an almost frustratingly simple hi-hat over it, completely dominating the mix and lending the track a stubborn rigidity, forcing the rubbery, wiggly tune upright. With so much going on underneath that hi-hat, it’s hard to tell what’s what beyond the ear-splitting high frequencies — the kick sounds like it’s dancing around every beat, far from the simple thump that might be expected.

The shorter ‘Shapes’ is a quintessential Hotflush tune, a beat built out of curiously organic sounds and strapped with deep, drilling subterranean bass and noises pinging away like echolocation in a dark manmade cavern. The hi-hat is hinted at, teased, but never allowed to fully emerge as Sigha sneakily weaves in more elements until the cavern is transformed into a sweaty, throbbing mess. And still that hi-hat slyly winks as you patiently await for it to finally take flight. But it never does.

It’s the last track that might be a bit of a curveball. The rather dramatically-titled ‘Light Swells (In A Distant Space)’ – the ambient wash that memorably opened Scuba’s mix CD for Ostgut-Ton earlier this year — is a beatless astral soundscape, the world spinning around as it stands stationary. Sigha hasn’t reinvented ambient music, but it’s a gorgeous way to end the EP, staring wide-eyed off into the distance, as deep, relaxing breaths are coaxed in and out. He’s still finding his own sound, but his meshing of London’s bass music and Berlin seems bound to reach that golden ratio eventually, and Shake is just one baby step closer.

Andrew Ryce" - FACT Mag.   

[7.0]

hi-hat techno

& buy it here. 

[Boomkat, £5.99]

Guido - Anidea [2010, cd, punch drunk]

may 2010

lbl: Punch Drunk

#: DRUNK 16

electronic

dubstep

~200kbps

1. Anidea

2. Orchestral Lab

3. Woke Up Early

4. Cat In The Window

5. Beautiful Complication featuring Aarya

6. Mad Sax

7. You Do It Right

8. Take Me Higher

9. Way U Make Me Feel feat Yolanda

10. Tango

11. Shades of Blue

12. Tantalized

note: "‘Anidea’ is the debut album from young Bristol based producer Guido, who alongside Joker and Gemmy, has trail blazed his way to the forefront of UK dance music. His two 12” releases, ‘Orchestral Lab’ and ‘Beautiful Complication’ on Peverelist’s Punch Drunk label in 2009, and recently completed remixes for Island Records and Tectonic Records, have garnered Guido extensive press coverage from specialist underground blogs to The Guardian broadsheet.

This album is the first to emerge from the trio, who have already made an indelible mark on UK underground music.

Guido cut his teeth in the embryonic mid-decade Bristol Grime scene, producing instrumental’s for MCs and vocalists culminating in his ‘Unleashed’ mixtape in 2006. His production style shares the ultra vivid colour, melody and rugged texture of golden era Davinche, Skepta and Ruff Squad’s Rapid but also the playfulness and pop sensibility of Timbaland or Neptunes without losing underground edge or appeal.

The album will be preceded by a digital single, ‘Way U Make Me Feel’ featuring a vocal from Yolanda who has recently been touring with Massive Attack and who also featured on Pinch’s recent ‘Get Up’ 12” on Tectonic." - extramusicnew.

silicon [7.0]

r'n'b victim

[fixed / 21 july 2012]

Cage & Aviary - Beat N Path [2010, vinyl, tiny sticks records]

february 2010

lbl: Tiny Sticks Records

#: stick 024

electronic

acid, disco, electro

320kbps

A1. Beat N Path

A2. Low Noise

B. Beat N Path (Brennan Green's Anxious Acid Version)

Jamie Paton & Nigel Of Bermondsey

note: "[...] The A-side version of the title track seems to embody several aspects of the duo’s preferred musical continuum: the decade long post-Comiskey club music cluster-fuck called the 1980s. Beginning with some shoe-gazed funk guitar, the track nonchalantly whistles its way into a comfortable, if jaded, groove that willfully ambles along into an acid-washed breakdown. Things get a bit weird for a minute or two but come back around in time and without too much scandal. The cycle repeats as if to show how matter-of-factly one could walk back and forth twice from opposite corners of the Paradise Garage in under eight minutes. “Low Noise” strikes a semi-anguished robo-tone that quietly broods along the alleys of your mind, until some perky percussion lifts the computer blue mood into a stuttering semi-clear resolution. For all that, the restricted economy of its pace and arrangement make it a bit of a rough diamond that probably won’t catch as many ears as it should.

The exact opposite holds for Brennan Green’s flipside remix of the title track. Banging the original up a few notches (and bpms), Green wastes no time taking full advantage of his 303 in developing the track’s acidic elements. Flat like the makeshift plywood walls at a warehouse party, the track remains structurally consistent — only once dangling Hoyle’s whimsical hook over the dance floor — but is made up of millions of tiny variations. It sounds like an obvious tipping point to the night: you realize you’re either having the time of your life or your moments away from losing it completely. Could be the same thing, really. As the title suggests, looking for an obvious progressive bend to this release misses the point entirely. It’s often easy to become fixated with the emergence or perfection of a certain genre in a certain year in a certain place — and there is the temptation to look for similarly fortuitous circumstances on the horizon — but if anything, Cage & Aviary suggest it can be just as interesting reading at length between the genre lines." - Little White Earbuds' review.

7.0

beach made of wax

[ORON]

buy it here. 

[Phonica,  £ 6.99]

Skudge - Melodrama / Ontic [2010, vinyl, skudge records]

22 april 2010

lbl: Skudge Records

#: SKUDGE002

electronic

dub techno, techno, house

~200kbps

silicon [7.0]

A. Melodrama
B. Ontic
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total: 14:42

note: "Leading on from their wave-making 'Convolution' 12", the Swedish duo present a KILLER second Skudge pressing. 'Melodrama' puts their well rounded sound in the spotlight again, delivering peak time functions for those who like it deep, long and well developed. Their fudgy bass provides a springy surface for sheared hi-hats while a filtered female vocal keeps gives a handsome melodic feature to latch onto and drive us to the brink. With 'Ontic' on the flip they cruise a bruising side of Berlin stalker techno, taking Chicago drum patterns and trimming them for European sensibilities, meaning polite but deadly purposeful claps and sub-padded kicks like velvet coated boulders that'll make your teef rattle on a decent rig. It's simply a must for fans of Dettmann & Klock or the Fachwerk crew - don't miss!" - Boomkat.

chaos theory

[HF]

buy it here. 

[Phonica Records, £ 7.99]

The Sight Below - It All Falls Apart [2010, cd, ghostly international]

6 april 2010

lbl: Ghostly International

#: GI-102 / SMM XII

electronic

ambient, techno

320kbps

silicon [7.0]

1. Shimmer

2. Fervent

3. Through The Gaps In The Land

4. Burn Me Out From The Inside

5. It All Falls Apart

6. New Dawn Fades

7. Stagger

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total time: 55:06




producer: Rafael Anton Irisarri
co-producer: Simon Scott

note: "*Digital edition includes bonus track 'Splénétique'* Rafael Anton Irisarri's best known project, The Sight Below, returns with a follow up to the 2008 debut, Glider. The album garnered praise across the board for its integration of rich ambient textures with a technoid sense of urgency, prompting many to hail Irissari as a successor to Wolfgang Voigt's Gas project. 'It All Falls Apart' underlines that such comparisons don't really tell the full story when it comes to The Sight Below's music. The two opening tracks, 'Shimmer' and 'Fervent' establish a beatless soundscape of immense depth and scope, demonstrating a kinship with shoegaze or dream-pop style guitar-based ambience. The likes of Kevin Shields and Robin Guthrie have probably had as much impact on Irissari's sound as any Wolfgang Voigt record. The first beats arrive during 'Through The Gaps In The Land', fading in through the nebulous mesh of electronic tones, blurry, abstract guitar and field-recorded sources. The sound is incredibly warm and punchy, and paradoxically it convulses with massive amounts of energy depite retaining the serene ambient feel. 'Burn Me Out From The Inside' rubs shoulders with The Field's brand of warm, symphonic dancefloor sounds, preserving a deeply rooted kick drum-generated sense of propulsion whilst spinning through swirling electronic basslines and clouds of organic ambient matter. Next, 'It All Falls Apart' might be said to echo the kind of horizon scorching drone architecture of Fennesz or Tim Hecker, expanding to vast proportions and casting off the 4/4 shackles for a moment. One of the album's biggest surprises, 'New Dawn Fades' is a Joy Division cover, aided by the vocals of Irissari's fellow Seattle artist Tiny Vipers. The Sub Pop singer-songwriter lends the record its only vocal presence, adding a further layer of seductive iciness to the album before 'Stagger' drags you off into a glorious thirteen-minute, cinematic dub finale. It All Falls Apart is an outstanding sophomore album - a record that's sure to heighten Rafael Anton Irissari's already consoderable reputation."

the suicides' anthem

[fixed / 12 april 2010, 4shared]

buy it here.

[official site]

VA - Field 03 [2010, vinyl, field records]

9 april 2010

lbl: Field Records

#: Field03

electronic

dub techno, [detroit] electro

320kbps

silicon [7.0]

A1. Mohlao  -   Luminescent

B1. Conforce  - Another Walk Around

B2. Conforce  - Digital Affair

Mohlao: Samuel van Dijk
Conforce: Boris Bunnik

note: "The new highly limited release on Field Records, Field 03, features two artists from the North, namely Mohlao (Meanwhile, Piece Communications) and dutch Techno wonder Conforce (Field, Curle, Rush Hour). This time, Conforce delivers two deep and moody, analog tracks, while Mohlao presents 10 minutes of Dub-Techno at its best. And just like Field 1 and 2, Field 03 will be sold as highly limited 12″ vinyl release (only 100 copies pressed worlwide, available through Clone) No repress yet, so don’t sleep on this one.

But don’t worry, cause due to the large demand all Field releases will also be available in digital format as well really soon through all major download portals, including Beatport, DJDownload, Juno and many more."

don't sleep on the romance with detroit

[CHECKED MF]

buy it here. 

[Clone, upcoming]

Tazz - Acid Love [2010, vinyl, underground quality]

4 march 2010

lbl: Underground Quality

#: UQ-026

electronic

deep house, acid house

~192kbps

silicon [7.0]

A1. Tazz Feat. Bacanito  - Acid Love

A2. Tazz Feat. Bacanito  - Underground 11

B. Jus-Ed  - Ambeant 41 (Remake By Jus-Ed)

note: "KILLER Connecticut house music from Tazz backed with a Jus-Ed remix on Underground Quality. 'Acid Love' kicks with the usual intense strength of a UQ track, rubbing 303-bass deep into the groove while crystal clear hi-hats and percussion merge witht he keys from Bacanito to sparkling effect. Better yet is 'Underground 11' easing up on the low-end acid but making up with dope deep-techno chords, while Jus-Ed remakes 'Ambeant 41' on the flip in that ruggedly deep, driving and tracky style that he's made his own these days. So good..." - boomkat.

acid test

[HF]

buy it here. [BM-Soho, £7.65]

To Rococo Rot - Speculation [2010, cd, domino]

29 march 2010

lbl: Domino

#: WIGLP234

electronic, rock
indie, downtempo, ambient, [krautrock]
~200kbps
silicon [7.0]





1. Away
2. Seele
3. Horses
4. Forwardness
5. No Way to Prepare
6. Working Against Time
7. Place It
8. Ship
9. Bells
10. Fridays




Ronald Lippok [bass]
Robert Lippok [sprinkles, textures & melodies]
Stefan Schneider [live drums and processed beats]

note: "Eight albums into a career that began during (and arguably defined a Mitteleuropa response to) the first flush of 90s US post-rock, the palindromic Berlin-via Düsseldorf trio continue to turn electronically-tinged, instrumental rock music inside out, their enthusiasm for recombining and recontextualising familiar sounds and genre traits seemingly undimmed. As is perhaps inevitable when experiment defines a musical approach, Speculation proves to be something of a mixed bag; but so laudable are its makers’ intentions that even when things occasionally fall flat, you find yourself applauding their efforts.

Partly recorded live and in the moment at Faust’s studio in Scheer, in rural southern Germany, To Rococo Rot’s is now a relatively unembellished sound, certainly compared to the sophisticated electronic layering of their benchmark 90s albums Veiculo and The Amateur View. As then, however, it’s Stefan Schneider’s bass which provides the music’s centre. Oscillating between graph paper dub, neo-krautrock throb and needling lead line, Schneider locks in with Ronald Lippok’s stripped-back live drums and discretely processed beats, while his brother, Robert Lippok, sprinkles ephemeral textures and discrete melodies.

As dextrous and nuanced as much of Speculation is, it’s also the rawest music they’ve yet produced. Thus, hypnotic opener Away is a tone-setting exercise in combo deconstruction – the sound of a band purposefully reducing itself down to essential constituents. Featuring just heartbeat drums, a primitive, loping bass line and a slow accumulation of gauzy sonic scree, it seamlessly conflates the robotic and the organic.

Seele, meanwhile, constructs a counterpoint flow of flickering hi-hats and snaking bass beneath a cloud of reverberant piano chords, while Horses uses the implacability of a burbling sequencer to allow drums and bass to meander jazzily – like much here, it’s perched on the cusp between warm-blooded humanity and technological rigidity.

The formula wears slightly thin later on, but things pick up again on a closing pair of tracks, Bells and Friday, which recall the delightful modal-pastoral experiments of 70s German antecedents Harmonia and Cluster. The latter number even features an organ cameo from Faust’s Hans Joachim Irmler – an imprimatur from krautrock aristocracy that’s well earned." - BBC Co. UK.

slowland

[ORON]

buy it here. [Boomkat, £8.99]