Music : EXIT

OLIVER COATES – RADIOCELLO

Posted on 2024-10-21

Radiocello is from the album Throb, shiver, arrow of time.

Oliver Coates’ third album for RVNG Intl. is a kind of mourning for changes to his south London / Elephant And Castle neighbourhood that previous albums were made in, and a mythologising of the emotional transformations our minds make of our memories. Seething and solemn string textures are intertwined with warped and wondrous effects on Throb, shiver, arrow of time, making reedy converging waves of the naked arcs of Coates’ cellos. Raw yet amassing cavernous layers of turbulence, these mellifluous phrases sift through long, searching, grainy drones of the sands of time, excited into jittery sparks on ‘Apparition’ anchored by Malibu’s coolly spoken words.

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PEARSON SOUND – WHICH WAY IS UP

Posted on 2024-10-14

Pearson Sound returns to his Hessle Audio label with Which Way Is Up, a 4 track EP showcasing a range of textures and tempos with soundsystem pressure as the anchor. The 808-laced ‘Hornet’ kicks things off with a sound palette inspired as much by ’80s Miami as ’10s London. ‘Twister’ dials up the energy with a jagged lead and scattered breakbeats pulling in opposing directions, while the steppers pulse of ‘Slingshot’ evokes formative experiences at Subdub in Leeds. The EP is brought to a close with the blissed out title track ‘Which Way Is Up’, whose arpeggios dance around each other until they fizzle to breaking point.

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SCULPTURE – CROSS PROCESSOR

Posted on 2024-10-14

Sculpture’s new album Max Ax is the product of constant recombination of wildcard sonic and visual elements into new forms in performance. Catching a live AV set by the duo is to enter a maximal portal into their visionary aesthetic, as Sutherland’s kaleidoscopic visual turntablism and Hayhurst’s analogue/digital hybrid of electronic pop and experimental splatter combine in free associations and unstable reactions.
Cross Processor is from the LP Max Ax, available on deluxe double gatefold 10” zoetrope disc and digital formats.

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DENNIS BOVELL – SUFFERER SOUNDS

Posted on 2024-10-14

Dennis Bovell’s prolific and eclectic career encompasses a huge range of music: from dub poetry to lovers rock to post-punk to disco to pop and beyond. His production work encompasses such diverse figures as The Slits, I Roy, Maximum Joy, Fela Kuti, The Pop Group, Janet Kay, Saada Bonaire, Orange Juice, Golden Teacher, Steel Pulse and more.

This compilation focuses on the period during and immediately after Bovell’s involvement with the Jah Sufferer Sound System, digging deep to find deep cuts and lesser known versions, mainly from 1976 – 1980, plus a killer and lesser heard dub of the iconic “Silly Games”. Painstakingly restored and remastered at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin so that these decades old tracks sound pristine and dynamic, and sequenced to take the listener on a journey through Bovell’s production and arrangement genius.

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YAYA BEY – THE EVIDENCE (EXAKTLY REMIX)

Posted on 2024-10-07

Yaya Bey partners with frequent collaborator and producer Exaktly to share a remix of “the evidence” from her critically acclaimed album ‘Ten Fold’. Exaktly energises the suave stylings of the original, injecting a complementary blend of Jersey club kicks and classic breaks to make a pliable track perfect for building up the dance floor or as a lively afterword to the original. It follows the recently released “career day (Exaktly remix)”, with Exaktly also producing “eric adams in the club” off ‘Ten Fold’ and “ascendant (motherfxcker)” from her 2023 EP ‘Exodus the North Star’.

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COLIN STETSON – THE LOVE IT TOOK TO LEAVE YOU

Posted on 2024-10-07

The new album features new ways of capturing Stetson’s music and instrumentation, intensifying his practice and challenging the historical canon of the bass saxophone while crafting emotive, haunting and harmonically innovative music. Recorded over a week in early 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year-old former metalworks facility in Montreal now transformed into a contemporary art complex, with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. Colin says “We were using the same live setup as I normally would to amplify – a full PA in the building’s spaces – so we were really able to move the kind of air that I can move, really saturating the room, hitting the walls hard. And then we further fleshed it out.”