information
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artist : Burial
title : Ghost Hardware
label : Hyperdub
cat : HDB004
date : 2007
style : Electronic
bitrate : 320kbps
filesize : 36,2 MB
source : WEB (320)
notes
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Respect must go out to all parties involved for keeping this
twelve under wraps, the first new material from the Burial vaults
made available on Hyperdub since the release of his seismic album
debut about a year or so ago. Anticipation had already reached
fever pitch since the label announced it was dropping a
"mysterious twelve" in June, speculation has been rife and top of
everyone's wish list was something, anything, from the most wanted
underground producer in the world today. "Ghost Hardware" provides
another blurry peek into the mind of a musician who is seemingly
unable to write anything other than astonishing music, producing
outside the box, beyond expectations, without recourse to generic
templates. The squashed punch of the rhythm here is accentuated by
layers of grinding bass and aquatic percussion, midnight rave
styles in a 2-step signature with a mournful undertone that's
almost at odds with the propulsive trajectory it holds onto
throughout. Simply amazing music - honed for the darkest of
dancefloors, neon-lit bedsits and the wide-angled vistas of
continental festival stages at one and the same time - quite some
achievement. "Shutta" opens the flipside with a distant rumble
that gradually clarifies into a stripped Garage killer that's
almost too good for words - the percussion bouncing through all
four corners of an abandoned South London warehouse - clattering
and panning, unravelling itself into oblivion while underpinned by
another growling, weighty bassline and clipped sino stabs that
open things up so wide you're left wondering where this guy gets
his inspiration from. But for our money the best is saved till
last - "Exit Woundz" creeps into life with another anxious spread
of broken percussion and opaque vocal samples levelling the
surface for the expected drop - yet things retain such a measured
presence, a confident self restraint without obvious bass drops or
anything even approaching a blueprint progression - that you wish
other producers out there would stop trying to fit the mould and
explored their own trajectories a bit more. But then, that's why
this guy is truly a one off right?. If you're heading for the next
level, here's your entry point. KILLER!!!!
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playlist details
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01. Ghost Hardware 04:56
02. Shutta 05:02
03. Exit Wounds 05:49
15:47 min