Music For Your Plants’ Expedition Chant Cup hones in on that real sweet spot between library and club music, just where we like it. It’s a vivid journey through digital detritus handled with a welcoming lightness of heart. In this respect, MFYP belong to a group of artists who are at once satirical, confusing, ambiguous, hyperreal yet […]
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While the first few tapes in this series focused their orbit around the Boxed massive, we now turn to those honing in on a skeletal, highly percussive, Jersey-inflected take on grime. Miss Modular and Sudanim of Her Records have presented us with exactly that, for the most part leaving behind grime’s evil sound palette and […]
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I’ve probably had one of Murlo’s tunes stuck in my head for the majority of 2013, his fluttering melodies set up shop in the brain and refuse to leave. Working mainly in the crevices between grime and dancehall, he has carved out a sound truly his own. Romantic, wistful and primed for a sunny day […]
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It’s often said that grime is an unfinished project, its untimely jolt into the mainstream cutting short the intense burst of creativity that characterised the style’s ‘golden age’. In 2013 a whole host of producers have taken it upon themselves to finish off the job, rearranging grime’s molecules to suit the ears and minds of […]
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What gets us coming back to grime every time is its sense of melody. When rhythm or timbre are the pursuit of much dance music, melody can be swamped, or indeed purposefully neglected in favour of different, more functional elements of music. Grime functions differently in this way, it’s one of the few dance genres […]
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Incoming heat from yet another UK producer who’s experimenting with footwork, Bristol’s Artifact. Releases on somethinksound and Rebirth displayed a flair for chunky house production, elements of which carry through seamlessly here. Local Action has already been responsible for dancefloor destroyers from DJ Q and T. Williams as well as Slackk’s criminally underrated “Raw Missions […]
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After years of ruling the battlegrounds of Chicago, DJ Rashad has, in a surprising yet hugely appropriate turn of events, stepped up for British superlabel Hyperdub and presented a set of the most forward-thinking footwork that you’re likely to hear in months. If you’ve experienced one of Kode9’s inimitable sets in the past year or […]
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“Put back the sunroof, let the cool air breeze through the buttersoft leather upholstery.” Aberdeen’s Lockah casts us into darkness from the get go on his new EP “Only Built 4 Neon Nites”. Cicada’s sing, an engine roars, a hymn to Kraftwerk rises on the car radio and throws us onto the Autobahn as we […]
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What a wonderful symbiosis jungle and juke are. Their similarities are well documented yet, whether tempo, bass pressure or sampling philosophy, are rarely as well executed as on this Om Unit-curated collection. The original proposal for the marriage of the two genres was supposedly formed independently but at around the same time by Machinedrum and […]
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