New 3 track release by Big Strick on his label 7 Days Entertainment. Raw house and techno.
Day: December 3, 2011
Cuthead – Brother EP [UV007]
The third artist-EP by Uncanny Valley comes from Cuthead and is nothing less than a proper power package. With ‘Vibratin’ things start off as deep as the bottom of the sea. Underneath Cuthead’s dense drums there is an intense and meditating synth line which is eventually complimented by an acid figure as if it was an evil twin. ‘Brother’ rolls in with a mighty kick drum, before a catchy sample and not less catchy piano motives prepare for a propitiating end. With ‘Transgressions’ and its bass line for the bigger floors things get down to House business once again. The remaining two tracks then give an impression of what happens, if Cuthead takes to the MPC for his liveset. In ‘Seram Lembah’ and ‘Heartless’ Cuthead combines his drumming with South East Asian disco-mantras und bittersweet Blues chants to heavy Hip-Hop-grooves.
A Drummer From Detroit – Drums #1 [FIT004]
Naturally for a producer who prefers to remain anonymous and call themselves A Drummer From Detroit and name their debut EP Drums, both tracks here veer into dextrously percussive house territory. Amidst the dizzying, jazz influenced rattle of Shake Shakir style rhythms that characterise the A Side workout our erstwhile protagonist weaves in desperate vocal strains and overtly dramatic piano and horn stabs which only serve to increase the panic inducing pace. The flipside treatment is slightly slower in its execution, yet increases the jazz funk melodic elements which make it the less a hectic and more involving production.
VA – Sound Sampler Vol. 1 [SSMPLR001]
Frank Timm aka Soundstream/Soundhack/half of Smith N Hack is one of Berlin’s most coveted producers of discohouse in the Chicago tradition. A substantial collection of four tracks. A-side there’s the swirling, filtered strings of ‘Just Around’ as Soundstream, beside the ruff-cut jack of ‘Vintage’ in his Soundhack guise. B-side he introduces a new moniker, T.S.O.S. with the smashing ‘Over And Over’ and ‘Over Beats’, plus four loops which will definitely get used and abused.
Arttu – Transfiguration [PHP057]
Lisbon-based producer Arttu Sellman release the second two-tracker for Philpot. Both the title track and flipside “Upwards” bear the aural hallmarks and raw drum machine sounds of early house and techno. While the latter is a driving fusion of drifting vocal samples, fuzzy beats and brain-melting acid bass, it still retains the analogue swing and evocative feel of the immaculate title track. While neither track could be described as revolutionary, both offer an attractive package of spellbinding grooves and intoxicating analogue riffs.
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