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sabato 30 novembre 2013
SYNKRO - Lost Here - Apollo Records
Close your eyes and breathe deeply with this one, as Synkro returns for his third release on Apollo with four new productions of affecting, midnight electronica. Joe McBride's ear for inimitable melodies has always fit his intricate percussion patterns like a glove. On the Lost Here EP, however, the Synkro project has been elevated to a new level with subtle flourishes of pop structure and two standout vocal performances by Robert Manos. Lost Here ascends to the clouds, hovering on cavernous chords that wrap Manos' words in a cocoon of eyes-down emotion as scissoring rhythms flit underneath. Touching down again, In My Arms calls on circadian rhythms and oscillating layers of synthesizer to create a dreamlike environment, isolating Manos' song in an antechamber of space and sound. The B side slinks in with a playful bass riff on Nights of Pleasure, underpinning celestial waves of chimes, tones, and chords before Fading Lights suspends each element in zero-gravity as a pure, heat-treated distillation of the Synkro sound.
Although still maintaining a presence in the wider bass music sphere, Synkro showcased his diversity in tempo, structure and new sound with the superlative ‘Reservoir’ bw ‘Just Say’ on Box Clever & ‘Angels VIP’ bw ‘Good Loving’ on Smokin' Sessions. Major support for Synkro music has come from names like dBridge, Instra:mental, ASC, Chris Coco, Giles Peterson, Brendon Moeller, Mary Anne Hobbs, London Electricity, Kasra & many more. This has displayed a maturation of his sound & style, and with material of various tempos scheduled for release on respected labels labels such as Exit, Autonomic, Brownswood Recordings, Blackout Music, Critical, Warm Communications, Pushing Red, Mindset, Box Clever any many more, it has become increasingly obvious that this will be the year when Synkro takes his deserved place amongst the luminaries of the electronic music world. Synkro's musical career has already seen him DJing everywhere from Manchester to Poland, London to Belgium, and Cardiff to the USA, and it is inevitable there will be many more stamps in Synkro's passport by the end of this year as he takes his new sound to the world.
Tracklist:
A1 - Lost Here
A2 - In My Arms
B1 - Nights Of Pleasure
B2 - Fading Lights
mercoledì 27 novembre 2013
INDIGO - Storm Ep - Samurai Red Seal
Manchester's Liam Blackburn aka Indigo is an artist devoted to sound and its effects on our lives. Now signed to R&S offshoot 'Apollo', he joins Samurai Red Seal for a guest appearance after his debut for our camp with the popular (and now sold out) 'Reaching The Source' vinyl EP for Samurai Horo and a contribution to our 'Scope' LP, also on Samurai Horo. The 'Storm' EP showcases the focused menace the Indigo style is capable of, with tightly wound musical energy bursting through the cracks on title track 'Storm' and 'Volta'. 'Spirit Of The Winds' (with Versa) lets the energy unwind slightly more with a powerful, but ultimately subtle showcase of breakbeats, while 'Condition' submerges the listener in a sumptuous bed of reverb and production finesse. Now working on his debut LP for Apollo in 2014, the 'Storm' EP is a mouth-watering collection that puts Indigo again at the front of an innovative pack of producers working in and around 170 bpm electronica.
Tracklist:
01. Volta
02. Spirit Of The Winds (Indigo & Versa)
03. Storm
04. Condition
mercoledì 28 agosto 2013
TREE - Demons - Apollo Records
Apollo Records è orgogliosa di dare il benvenuto al giovane esplosivo talento Oliver Tree Nickell già da tempo sulla scena come membro di varie band adolescenti di successo.
In un' età in cui la maggior parte dei suoi coetanei sta solo cominciando il proprio percorso artistico musicale, Oliver dimostra pienamente di essere un artista maturo al di là di generi e stili, in grado di rimanere in piedi a testa alta insieme ai grandi cani sciolti della musica moderna.
Grande fan di Flying Lotus, Rustie e Tricky ci colpisce per l'audace versione di "Karma Police" dei Radiohead; una cover personalizzata dal suo canto inconfondibile e da versi rap che omaggiano l'originale dando vita ad una visione unica e del tutto sua con una sfocatura delle linee tra acustica ed elettronica, intima e monumentale, che sfida la paura di confrontarsi con i grandi facendo barcollare i sensi dell'ascoltatore.
Un Ep che raccoglie le doti di un giovane talento di cui si sentirà parlare molto, 3 tracce realizzate meticolosamente e dalla immediatezza sconvolgente che si fanno scoprire sempre di più ad ogni ascolto e che metterete a lungo in riproduzione ripetuta.
Tracklist:
01. Demons
02. Karma Police
03. Stuck Down The Wrong Rabbit Hole
(ft. Beat Culture & Lena Kuhn)
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