Actress - Splazsh [2010, 2 x vinyl, honest jon's records]

17 may 2010

lbl: Honest Jon's Records

#: HJP50

electronic

wonky, experimental, dubstep, techno

320kbps

1. Hubble 

2. Lost 

3. Futureproofing 

4. Bubble Butts and Equations 

5. Always Human 

6. Get Ohn (Fairlight Mix) 

7. Maze 

8. Purrple Splazsh 

9. Senorita 

10. Lets Fly 

11. Wrong Potion 

12. Supreme Cunnilingus 

13. The Kettle Men 

14. Casanova 

producer: Darren J. Cunningham

note: "Werk Discs manager Darren Cunningham, AKA Actress, will release his second album this May on Honest Jon's Records.

Cunningham has been an active member of the UK's underground music scene since the turn of the millennium, both as an artist and a label head. He cut his teeth DJing alongside Kode9 at Hyperdub's early club nights, then released his first record as Actress in 2004. That same year, Cunningham launched his record label, Werk Discs, which pressed early 12-inches by Starkey and Radioclit as well as Zomby's first full-length. In 2008, after four years of silence, Cunningham released Hazyville, a stark and enigmatic debut album whose title perfectly suits its general aesthetic. On record, Cunningham's sound is murky, rough-edged, and unpredictable–a style he describes as black world wizardry and that's earned him comparisons to Theo Parrish, Newworldaquarium and Anthony 'Shake' Shakir. 

According to Cunningham, Splazsh will be more stylistically diverse than his debut album. "Hazyville was heavily locked into a certain mood aesthetic," he said in an interview with Resident Advisor. "[Splazsh] is not a concentrated sound working from the same palette. It's blocky and dispersively fragmented." The new record will be available on vinyl and CD as well as via digital download. " - RA News, 31 march 2010.

9.0

gozssh!

[11 11 2014]

buy it here.

[Rush Hour Store, pre-order]

T++ - Wireless [2010, 2 x vinyl, honest jon's records]

april 2010

lbl: Honest Jon's Records

#: HJP49

electronic

dubstep, experimental

~128kbps [only version] & .flac

tourmaline [7.3]

1.Cropped

2. Anyi

3. Voices No Bodies

4. Dig

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total time: 29:00

producer: Torsten Profrock

note: "Since its 2005 debut, Torsten Profrock's T++ project has grown in stature and scope to the point where it's admired by fans of techno, dubstep, d'n'b and experimental electronics alike, and annexed by none. Anchored in the kind of scuffed, sub-heavy atmospherics Profrock developed in his 90s recordings for Chain Reaction, and naturally influenced by his work with Robert Henke as Monolake, the sound of T++ is singular, always evolving, difficult to fix. 

But now we come to the end. Wireless will be the last work the Berliner produces under that name. Appropriately enough, it's his most expressive, energetic and fully-realised work, affirming the enduring fundamentals of the T++ aesthetic even as it steers it into uncharted climes. 

Long ago snagged by the rhythmic innovations of the post-jungle underground, here Profrock makes explicit his debt to the radical fringe of UK garage. Snapping 2-step rhythms are at the heart of all four tracks; for all the distress, deconstruction and detournement they undergo at his hands, the spirit and swing of the British soundsystem tradition is unmistakable. 

Further, Wireless is a kind of remix, a commission, shot through with the contorted samples of voice and ndingidi from a handful of old East African 78s (collected on a forthcoming Honest Jon's compilation). 

The result is a record that sounds at once ancient and modern, possessing a unique tonal language, and with it a curious, almost occult power. " - distributor.

african garage
[update: 27 march 2016]

buy it here. 

[official, £7.99]

Actress - Paint, Straw & Bubbles [2010, honest jons records]

march 2010

lbl: Honest Jons Records

#: HJP048

electronic

abstract, hip-hop, wonky, electro

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

1. Paint, Straw And Bubbles

2. Maze (Long version)

note: "'Paint, Straw And Bubbles' seemingly untethers his Detroit dream from terra firma, percolating his ethereal sound through a system of camouflaging filters until the joins dissolve and we're left with a remarkable feat of intangible spatial dynamics viewed with an incredibly unique depth perception. "

rave on retirement

buy it here. [£ 5.99]