DJ SNEAK & TRIPMASTAZ – SPACE CLASH EP

DJ Sneak and Tripmastaz once again come together as Rare Two Inc. on four fantastic new tracks that bring together both artists’ considerable know how.
Sneak, of course, is the house gangster, Chicago pioneer and larger than life DJ character who serves up impossible raw, hard hitting house. Russian Tripmastaz is the founder of Plant 74 label who has more than a decade of aliases under his belt and always explores crisp, hypnotic house and techno and plenty in between.

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KELPE – BREAK SYNONYMS

Drut Recordings present six new tracks of breezy autumnal freshness from label founder and electronica stalwart Kelpe, with water and ink artwork from Yannick Pirson.

The EP begins with ‘Interruption’ – a hiss drenched exercise in juxtaposing a heavy yet minimal delayed drum rhythm with a counter-point of languid synth drones, before abruptly taking a sharp turn into ‘Recess’, the longest and deepest cut on the EP. Arguably the focal point of Break Synonyms, ‘Recess’ blends multi layered analog synth arpeggios and harmonies with snippets of home recordings from an audio cassette tape long lost from childhood and reclaimed from the rubbish bin. We then move onto the bright and buoyant ‘Suspension’, which also makes use of field recordings, hazy beats and synths. A new version of ‘Lapse’ follows, then, dropping the tempo somewhat, ‘Freeze’ sounds like a throwback to the red eyed head-nodding melodic hip hop of early Kelpe. The EP closes by re-upping the tempo with the lush and otherworldly extended mix of ‘Intermission’.

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SILVER WAVES – A-BIZ / TUNNELLING

Three years on from the brutalist jungle wreckage of ‘EP3’, Silver Waves presents a taster of new material, mapping out an exciting new vision for the project. Assuming a compositional approach inspired by both the methodology of electroacoustic music and the direct communication of contemporary popular music forms, Silver Waves new work brings into focus the perceived material reality of sound and the imagined space it resides in, using energy summation and release as a guiding structural force, yet presents this methodology with careful consideration for the preservation of traditional musicality, succinct accessibility and unfiltered emotional potency.

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