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- King Cannibal – Let The Night Roar (Ninja Tune/Inertia)
- “Requestfescht” – Extended Playlist 051009 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM
- The Village Orchestra – The Starry Wisdom (Highpoint Lowlife)
- 2562 – Unbalance (Tectonic)
| King Cannibal – Let The Night Roar (Ninja Tune/Inertia) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:26 PM PDT
Finally a label wakes up and recognises the talent of Zilla, aka King Cannibal, and are prepared to let him reign his brutalism without censorship. The first two EP’s for Ninja Tune showed a promise that the album would be a diverse venture to the outer reaches of post-apocalyptic hardcore. King Cannibal steps outside the fashionable and brings an album of diversity that touches many genres with his own twist but weaves a thread that’s brutal, claustrophobic, brooding, yet mesmerising. There’s so much influence here from industrial sounds, a brutalism going back to the 80’s experimenters mixed with a healthy dose of future dancehall, house, dub techno, dubstep, drum ‘n bass and a post-rave mentalism. ‘Aragami Style’ drops in and out, beats abruptly stop to enable spooky spoken word samples to raise the tension and suspense. ‘Murder Us’ featuring Jahcoozi with a murderous, sultry vocal, again adding tension to a slow burning dub techno track. ‘Virgo’ featuring Face-A-Face brings the dancehall to full tilt. More dub techno energies for ‘So… Embrace The Minimum’, but with hardcore bass and synth stabs, returning to a Basis Channel style minimalistic burner. ‘Dirt’ featuring Daddy Freddy gets really dirty in the dancehall, reminiscent of earlier King Cannibal 12″s, drawing parallels with The Bug. ‘Colder Still’ returns to Zilla’s drum ‘n bass roots, injecting an evil spoken story similar to the rantings of Skinny Puppy’s Nivek Orge, with massive percussive and industrial stabs and rolling beats morphing into apocalyptic break beats – this would sound massive on a big sound system. The tension continues, even with the ambient track on the album, ‘Onwards Vultures’, sounding more like a doom metal ambient interlude than a sweet Eno experiment. The final track ‘Flower Of Flesh And Blood’, starts with a Middle Eastern percussive theme, again introducing a creepy spoken interlude, before dropping some massive beats with truly menacing synth stabs, and a welcome return to the TB303 acid bubbling with the rhythm, taking you back to the days when Hardfloor were king – a masterpiece of restraint. King Cannibal has delivered an album of influences processed through his brain and squeezed through his machines, and it’s a pretty scary vision, but its good to be scared. Wayne Stronell King Cannibal – Let The Night Roar (Ninja Tune/Inertia) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
| “Requestfescht” – Extended Playlist 051009 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:21 PM PDT Come to me, come unto me, all ye who labour. Impart to me your innermost desires so we may oblige and slake your thirst. Ah, how we love listener feedback. Please keep it coming, so we can bring you more of the good sounds! ————————— The Pop Group – Savage Sea Scritti Politti – Faithless Liliput – Umamm Dave Ball – Strict Tempo The Residents – Picnic Boy the Native Cats – Shovel On Shovel The Slits – FM HEALTH – In Violet Susumu Yokota – Flying Cat Harmonia & Eno – Vamos Compañeros SPK – Metall Field RAC – Electro Fish Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Komm in meine Welt (Liebeslied) Noto – Spin 26 Low Nurse With Wound – Ubu Noir Lemon Kittens – Nudies The Legendary Pink Dots – No Bell No Prize David Shea – The Tower Terre Thaemlitz – Systole.008 ————————— Do you like our playlists? “Requestfescht” – Extended Playlist 051009 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
| The Village Orchestra – The Starry Wisdom (Highpoint Lowlife) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:20 PM PDT
Inspired by sci-fi pulp writer HP Lovecraft, The Starry Wisdom EP by gritty Glasgow producer The Village Orchestra (Ruaridh Law) sinks further into the low-end mire with six tracks of broken, and not so broken, dancefloor workouts. The grainy waves of ‘I Can Hear The Sirens Again’ have been replaced by fearsome, wonky rhythms and disorienting synth webs, Law working on the retro bass music of Sheffield and rave, with nods to long-time influences Mille Plateaux and Force Inc. There’s a tightly wound menace to the jerky 4/4 of ‘Arkham, mass’ reminiscent of Rechenzentrum, as with ‘Aklo Cut With Saffron’, which soon spirals into something altogether bolder and less predictable, more like a British Pom Pom. Other pieces seem more well-suited to nocturnal car journeys; ‘The King in Yellow’ drips gleaming tones against a gentle motorik chug, while ‘Non-Euclydian’ rips into Mantronix electro via Roman Flugel, spitting Chipmunk vocals into meaningless chunks over a bleeting 2-step thud. Joshua Meggitt The Village Orchestra – The Starry Wisdom (Highpoint Lowlife) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:06 PM PDT
Hailing from the eponymous postcode in The Hague, 2562’s Dave Huismans approaches dubstep from a geographic and cultural remove, bringing further disembodiment to a sound which is becoming increasingly fragmented and detached from its origins. His second album ‘Unbalance’ is tonally more grounded than his first, ‘Aerial’, throbbing with the warmth of Detroit house via his compatriots at Clone, yet tethered to rhythms more broken than the techno fusion we’re used to. Here 2562 joins the Flying Lotus chorus, and on tracks like ‘Unbalance’ and ‘Who are you Fooling?’ rhythms barely exist at all, drums so slurred they’re unintelligible. Even here, though, there’s light: the latter adds congas but twists them into crumpled shapes, while ‘Narita’ keeps them whole, on a bouncy, almost UK Funky trip. ‘Superflight’ is similarly pitched, velvet Rick Wade synths over an almost D n’ B skitter, and ‘Like a Dream’ uses, and loses, grand rave stabs in warped, twisted loops. First cut ‘Flashback’ is possibly the finest, the drums igniting after stepping on a tripwire while all else wallows in dank tepid pools, like Burial’s heavier, crisper moments. Fine stuff indeed. Joshua Meggitt 2562 – Unbalance (Tectonic) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
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