ARTIST...: LV
TITLE....: Get A Grip EP
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Hyperdub
CAT.NO...: HDB063
GENRE....: Bass
TIME.....: 13:58 min
SIZE.....: 32,0 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/07/25
WEBSITE..: http://boomkat.com
TRACKLIST
01) (04:18) Sebenza ft. Okmalumkoolkat
02) (03:59) Get A Grip ft. Mumdance
03) (02:03) Zulu Compurar ft. Okmalumkoolkat
04) (03:38) Diamonds ft. Okmalumkoolkat
Fresh, forward-thinking EP from LV, heralding their imminent and eagerly anticipated
album for Hyperdub. Lead track Sebenza sees them calling once again on the talents of
South African vocalist Okmalumkoolkat. His urgent, enervated phrasing lends extra
energy to the track's stripped, killer construction - heavy subs, kwaito-ish snares
and lurching synth stabs. He appears on two further tracks: the immaculately
low-slung 'Zulu Compurar', which at first sounds rooted in familiar slo-house rollage
but ultimately shakes free of any box you try to put it in, and the front-loaded
futureboogie of digital bonus track 'Diamonds', whose electro zaps, Detroit-styled
strings, jazzy inflections and liquid bassline nod to the finest early 2000s broken
beat. On an instrumental tip, LV team up with Mumdance for 'Get A Grip', a bashy,
unreconstructed UKF bomb, all swaggering tribal drum patterns, haywire sirens,
well-judged wobble and some choice digi-Caribbean riffage. A wicked EP, one of the
most interesting and confident entries in the UK soundsystem canon we've heard all
year.
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