Articles
2011 Artists' Picks
Spotlight 5
Albums
1982
Marvin Ayres
Big Quarters
Birds Of Passage
Brunborg / Huke
bvdub
Charlatan
City of Satellites
Cokiyu
CYNE
Dakota Suite / Sirjacq
Tomoyoshi Date
Dday One
Vladislav Delay
Ensemble Economique
Esperanza
Frost & Bjarnason
Integral
Lullatone
Mario & Vidis
Dean McPhee
Mint Julep
Muhr
James Murray
Muta
Nicholas: Nu Groove
pacificUV
Papir
Andrew Pekler
Pimmon
Simon Scott
Quentin Sirjacq
Stormloop
Swod
szilárd
Tapage
Carl Taylor
Willamette
Boo Williams
Reissue
Pink Floyd
Compilations / Mixes
Marcel Dettmann
Fabriksampler V4
Inertia: Resisting Routine
Tech My House 5
Visionquest
EPs
0311
A Sun-Amissa
Jacksonville
Arev Konn
Neon Cloud
Phasen
Photonz
Rivers Home
0311:
The Experience EP
Concrete Cut
Though Concrete Cut's latest find, Polish producer 0311, has opted to issue his digital-only debut solo release under an enigmatic pseudonym, we can at least report that the individual involved has acted as an associate of the Warsaw-based Underground Perception collective. More importantly, we can also report that the five-tracker in question is a sweet collection indeed, one that'll surely satisfy listeners with a jones for deep, late-night garage.
The opener, “System,” rolls in on a serpentine wave of vapour, mist, and disembodied voices before the beats kick in, their uptempo snap strongly redolent of garage and two-step. Dreamy synth swirls lend the material a nocturnal, post-club feel even when the rhythms are drawing the material back towards the feverish intensity of the early evening. Burial fans will assuredly cotton to tracks like “Warsaw Dream,” “It's Not True,” and “White Shadows,” given 0311's penchant for boosting his beats with soulful vocal samples, even if his music eschews the moroseness festering at the center of Burial's black heart. Though soulful vocalizing spreads itself liberally across the track's surface, “It's Not True,” for instance, exudes an irrepressible spirit in the punch and swing of its buoyant groove. “White Shadows” elevates its melting house chords and celestial whisper with a sped-up vocal sample lifted from Rhianna's “Take a Bow,” while the more subdued “Late Nite” guides the dazed listener into the rainswept streets for the early morning trek home. It's an EP filled with promise for the 0311 music that presumably will come—whoever it might be piloting the ship.
January 2012