ARTIST...: Om Unit
TITLE....: Aeolian
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Civil Music
CAT.NO...: CIV038D
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 31:14 min
SIZE.....: 71,6 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/07/25
WEBSITE..: http://boomkat.com
TRACKLIST
01) (03:59) Ulysses
02) (03:12) Dark Sunrise ft. Tamara Blessa
03) (03:26) Fumes
04) (04:33) Lightworker's Call ft. Kromestar
05) (05:42) Slowfast Matrix
06) (06:36) Ulysses (Reso's Different Drum Remix)
07) (03:46) Ulysses (Sweatson Klank Remix)
Something of a producer's producer, Jim Om Unit rarely disappoints in his releases,
but recently he seems to have found a particularly rich vein of form and is producing
some of the most confident, club-destroying and ear-kissing gear of his career.
'Ulysses' is a more delicate take on the juke-jungle hybridising of he and
Machinedrum's Dream Continuum project, with nods to the original garage ravers but
moreover the rain-slicked cityscapes evoked by Kuedo and the sighing, synthed-out R&B
vistas of Clams Casino et al. 'Dark Sunrise' is an out-and-out dubstep killer, with
irresistible vamps, ruffneck subs and spry, impeccably LDNish vocals courtesy of
Tamara Blessa. 'Fumes' and 'Lightworkers Call' (a Kromestar collaboration) are
satisfying syntheses of dreamy instrumentation and rudeboy stoppage, and as with
'Dark Sunrise' the rhythms deftly suggest that hip-hop and dubstep might be closer
cousins than is usually admitted. The footwork futurism returns for 'Slowfast Matrix'
and Sweatson Clank's remix of 'Ulysses', and the same track gets a fabulous,
unexpected d'n'b makeover - with shades of circuit-fried Rephlex/Warp braindance - by
Reso.
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