ARTIST...: Machinedrum
TITLE....: Room(s) Extended
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Planet Mu
CAT.NO...: ZIQ317
GENRE....: Bass
TIME.....: 107:47 min
SIZE.....: 247,1 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/04/27
WEBSITE..: http://boomkat.com
TRACKLIST
01) (04:06) She Died There
02) (03:51) Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real
03) (04:30) Sacred Frequency
04) (04:41) U Don't Survive
05) (06:13) Come1
06) (03:18) Youniverse
07) (04:26) GBYE
08) (03:53) The Statue
09) (03:57) Lay Me Down
10) (05:23) Door(s)
11) (04:32) Where Did We Go Wrong?
12) (07:46) U Don't Survive (FaltyDL Remix)
13) (03:46) Flycatcha ft. Body Language
14) (04:00) TMPL
15) (05:58) Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real (Lando Kal Remix)
16) (04:58) Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real (Chrissy Murderbot Remix)
17) (04:32) Fantastix
18) (04:18) Listen 2 Me
19) (05:22) From Now On
20) (05:17) U Don't Survive (Chrissy Murderbot Remix)
21) (03:47) Mondo Cane
22) (03:46) She Died There (Traxman Remix)
23) (05:27) Diepure
With Planet Mu's planning permission, Travis Stewart adds seven brand new cuts to
'Room(s)' plus remixes from Falty DL, Traxman, Lando Kal and Chrissy Murderbot
We've been waiting for an album that encapsulates all that's really happening in the
clubs right now, and it seems to have arrived in the shape of this beauty from
Machinedrum. With his uniquely exploratory and free approach to beat-making, New York
producer Travis Stewart has long been an acknowledged hero to the likes of Rustie,
Hud Mo et al; his recent work has seen him cultivate a harder, leaner club-oriented
sound, evidently inspired by juke, dubstep, early jungle, Detroit techno, nu-garage
and especially the present mutant house sound of the UK. But there's nothing token,
touristic or box-ticking about this new material; far from trying to ape them,
Stewart has absorbed these disparate influences into his own strong and singular
sound signature, making for an album that's cohesive as well as intrepid. Opener 'She
Died There' lays down the law, existing at the brain-frying intersection between
footwork, rugged 2-step and dub-house styles; Stewart's talent is to take the
toughness and energy of ghetto styles and work it into advanced, highly polished
studio arrangements without diminishing it. The mood is celebratory yet sombre: key
track 'Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real' is stripped steppers' techno at once lightened and
made heavier-hearted by chopped R&B vocals. There are still traces of Machinedrum the
hip-hop experimentalist: 'Sacred Frequency' is precisely the kind of low-slung
jeep-banger that's so endeared him to the LuckyMe crew over the years; albeit crafted
with a subtlety and poise that his Glasgow fam are some years off matching. The
heaviest cuts are those that reference early 90s Brit soundsystem culture: stripped
d'n'b roller 'U Don't Survive' or 'Come1' with its plangent rave pianos and
jazz-brushed breakbeats - imagine 2 Bad Mice if they'd if they'd taken as much
influence from Alice Coltrane and opium as from Shut Up & Dance and ecstasy. Other
highlights come in the form of the limpid, syncopated house bomb 'Gbye', and the
strung-out finale 'Where Did We Go Wrong', dub-shattered R&B ambient that comes over
like The Weeknd remixed by Echospace. The whole album is just rude as f*ck and
astonishingly well produced; there's substance and artistry to even its ruffest riff
and bashiest beat. Big.
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