Bereneces, Akinsa - Titan / Kaiju / Contagious, 2020
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flipflop 2 (electric music boogaloo) - EP. OUT NOW.
https://ghostmemory2002.bandcamp.com/album/flipflop-2-electric-music-boogaloo-ep
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215: Adam F // Colours
Colours
Adam F
1997, Positiva
I’ve never delved too deeply into ‘90s breakbeat music and its myriad roots and branches (drum and bass, jungle, 2-step, etc.), but by chance I’ve got two of the more adventurous LPs from that family in my collection: 4hero’s Two Pages (literal dollar bin find) and Adam F’s Colours (thrifted from a dude who sells treasures he finds in Montreal’s trash). The diversity within drum and bass seems to me an instructive demonstration of the nearly endless modularity of musical genres. Just as metal and hardcore are delimited by a set of strict aesthetic qualifiers (volume, abrasiveness, a propensity for certain scales), DnB’s foundation of skittering breakbeats and body blow bass/sub-bass would seem to narrow the scope of what you can do with it. Yet despite these respective genres’ “extremity” in relation to what came before them, almost from their inception artists have found ways to expand their expressive capacity through inventive fusions and grafts. (A round of applause here for polka metallers Finntroll.)
In the case of Colours, which arrives in wax form as a magisterial double LP with bonus 12”, Adam F connects DNB back to the funk and jazz genres where those breakbeats originated, as well as tones I can only call ambient/New Age. You can zone out only so far with those persistent ADHD dot-dash snare hits thwacking along, but the two elements balance nicely. Without Adam F’s relentless drum programming, a lot of this would be pleasant-enough trancey smooth jazz—with it, tracks like “Circles” and “F-Jam” agitate the brain into a more ecstatic state. Over its nearly 70-minute run-time, Colours makes room for retro funk grooves (“Dirty Harry”), cybergoth-night music (“Metropolis”), and dial-up internet future R&B (“Music in My Mind”). It’s great to have such a broad palette represented, given that this was Adam F’s sole long-player before wandering off into an ill-starred attempt to establish himself as a mainstream hip-hop producer, a move that pretty much tanked his career in electronic circles. Never hurts to peak early, especially if option B is not peaking at all.
215/365
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(GunterKeeGan) DaFunky Sound! More bounce per once!
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CRP005
EP is out for free download (pay what you want on Bandcamp).
https://chromeplaza.bandcamp.com/album/crp005
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Current Value - Back to the Machine, 2010
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(Crazy Rabbit Breaks,Beats, Dub Jungle n' Drum&Bass)
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Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce – Cutslo (Lokuste Mix)
Kicking this blog off with an absolute monster. This beloved techstep anthem rarely needs introduction and was released exclusively on vinyl with Alien Girl of all tunes being on the flipside.
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(ॐ chillout Boulasteck ॐ“)
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#NowPlaying: "Sticky Translation" by Sequence Stranger
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(GunterKeeGan) Please Listen, like share and get down!
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