ARTIST...: Machinedrum
TITLE....: Sacred Frequency
YEAR.....: 2011
LABEL....: Planet Mu
CAT.NO...: ZIQ306
GENRE....: Bass
TIME.....: 17:10 min
SIZE.....: 39,3 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
ENCODER..: Lame 3.98.2
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2011/06/06
WEBSITE..: http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=30301
TRACKLIST
01) (04:30) Sacred Frequency
02) (03:46) Flycatcha ft. Body Language
03) (04:32) Fantastix
04) (04:22) Listen 2 Me
NOTES
Planet Mu are really pleased, as we've signed Travis Stewart, a.k.a. Machinedrum.
Travis is known to the electronic music cognoscenti as one of the finest, yet
inexplicably underexposed producers out there. After an extended EP last year on the
Luckyme label he's putting out this four tracker followed by an album with Mu, and
his new tracks and live performances are garnering some excited attention and new
fans and supporters.
The songs on this EP are light and sun-hued with psychedelic, colourful sounds and
melodies. Clocking in at around 160 bpm, they work with the rhythmic conventions of
Footwork and Jungle.
'Sacred Frequency' opens the EP with floods of spiralling synth washes and organ
chords over kicks and snares, before ushering in Travis' sweet psychedelic vocals.
It's an unexpectedly catchy and poppy track, and it's not much of a stretch to call
it one of the freshest pop moments this year.
'Flycatcha (ft. Body Language)' matches pitch-shifted Detroit techno chords with
snapping footwork style drum kicks and pulses, with Body Language smearing and
scratching in words and phrases, giving the track a relaxed blur.
'Fantastix' is a retooling of UK Rave into a tighter, punchier footwork influenced
sound. Chipmunked diva voices and chord stabs mix with tightly rolling breaks and
frazzled wonky neon synths.
'Listen 2 me' mixes tribal drums over a 4/4 kick, looping in a subtle autotuned vocal
and building and filtering chords in and out to create a lush hazy ecstacy.
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