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artist : Kaman Leung
title : Lacrimal
label : Z5 Records
cat : XQCP-1002
date : 2007
style : Bass
bitrate : VBRkbps
filesize : 62,9 MB
source : CDDA
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If you're looking for an album that will make it seem like you
have a large subwoofer buried under your floorboards, if BASS is
your thing - come in, take a closer look. Raised with Swedish,
Chinese and most recently Norwegian roots, Kaman Leung has long
been a producer who's ticked all our boxes when it comes to
Low-End music of the highest, most advanced calibre. His early
material for the obscure "A PMS Plan" imprint showcased his talent
for producing instrumental beats that didn't follow any
conventional paths - the templates were borrowed from Hip Hop, no
doubt, but the sound palette was channelled via Jamaican music at
its heaviest - the emphasis from the very beginning was on BASS.
Since then Kaman has dropped three killer twelves for his own
lacerated imprint and an obscure whitelabel for Modern Love - with
each and every release spinning into orbit another facet of the
Hardcore continuum - so much so that mostly everyone we've played
his material to in the last few months has wanted to know if it
was the work of some mysterious dubstep producer working under
anonymity. "Lacrimal" is Kaman's debut album and through its 9
flawless tracks you start to realise that the material in front of
you is nothing short of groundbreaking - and once you factor into
the equation the fact that the tracks here are all 4 or 5 years
old you start to wonder just how ahead of his time this producer
has been. Opening track "Inquietude" sets the agenda - with the
benefit of hindsight you could describe it as a blend of dubstep's
low-end templates with the shimmering echoes of dub Melodica,
hardcore hoover sweeps and bass drops that are hard to fathom in
one sitting - who was making this sort of thing back in 2002? Or
in 2007 for that matter? Shockingly good stuff. Or take third
track in "Stretchmarks" - a track that comes to life with an
atmospheric sleepy hip hop shuffle - who could anticipate that a
minute into it the bass would drop so low and so heavy that it
turns into something that sounds like Burial, DJ/Rupture and El-P
having a soundclash deep into the night in some abandoned bunker
50 feet underground? The bottom line is that Kaman Leung is a
producer who casts his net wide over a number of seemingly
disparate disciplines, stuffs them into his boxes and squeezes out
a hybrid sound that is so enamoured with the rumbling, padded
wobble of the bottom end that regardless of the tempo or template
in use it comes over as a new kind of urban variation - a sort of
proto dubstep fusion that still sounds like nothing else to these
ears. Easily one of the most progressive, next-level BASS albums
you'll hear this year, "Lacrimal" is the kind of album that will
hopefully push things through to the next level, one can only
wonder what will happen when this most gifted producer unleashes
new material onto the world...KILLER!!!
playlist details
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01. Inquietude 05:24
02. Await 06:40
03. Stretchmarks 07:09
04. 100 Year Anniversary 06:26
05. As Hope Fades 05:08
06. Lacrimal 08:53
07. Stillborn 05:08
08. Neither Death Nor Life 04:28
09. No.62426 05:23
54:39 min