Staff picks for week 30 //Our attention this week goes mainly to the cross-pollination between Garage and Techno going on so much right now. The new Mount Kimbie release on Hotflush – all of it dreamy bass-heavy lushness – comes with a surprising (and positively amazing) remix by none other that Peter Van Hoesen, a name one wouldn’t normally associate with the British duo. Peter, along with Dettman, Klock and the label Modern Love, is known for bringing some fresh air into a somewhat stale dub techno scene, obsessed (and creatively imprisoned) by pursuing the Basic Channel canon into impossibly sophisticated and abstract realms. He did it simply by bringing it back again to its warehouse roots and, in the process, helping create a new but raw style. His remix for Mount Kimbie is one of his best efforts, and it sees him stepping out of his preferred territory a bit, starting with a Garage-styled but analogue-sounding rhythm progressively moving into more colourful and melodic soundscapes than the ones created on his label Time To Express, but always keeping the rawness and drama of his previous productions. Unmissable stuff. On the same tip do not miss the latest tracks by Infrasonics’ very own Spatial, this time on the label Schmorgasbord Records. Our favorite track of the release is “Corti”, with its futuristic Garage motion that, somehow, owes more to the raw and ace trademark style of Detroit’s most unsung hero Anthony “Shake” Shakir than to Zed Bias or MJ Cole. Brilliant and fresh dancefloor weapon, people! Break and Die’s “Slow Down VIP” and “Epsilon” by Lynx and Hellrazor are our Drum & Bass chart picks for this week. The first is a floor-cracking new collaboration by two of the genre’s legends on Break’s own label Symmetry. It relies on a long but spacious and dramatic break, filled with dubby echoes and soulful vocals, creating a beautiful moment of anticipation that suddenly explodes into one of toughest (but cleverest) D&B motions we’ve heard recently. Bomb! Lynx and his long time collaborator Hellrazor join efforts again to bring one of the most tense and relentless tunes this week. The track “Epsilon” manages to keep everyone on their toes while building an incredible but somehow reflective tension over layers of restless percussion and drone-y bass, slowly moving further into an incredible mindtrip, full of seductive high pitch synths and eventually exploding into a keyboard solo worthy of an ace psych-jazz workout from the 70’s. So impressive.Share | ||
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