artist : Bass Clef
title : Zamyatin Digitised
date : 2007
label : Blank Tape
cat# : BLANK008TX
genre : Bass
release date: 02.22.2008
street date : 12.00.2007
tracks : 08
bitrate : avg. 164kbps
size : 39,8 MB
source : WEB (WAV)
type : Album
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"Stand By To Dive" opens the set with a widescreen sweep of
strings and space echo, Ralph Cumbers dusting his hands for
the task at hand, an exquisite opening for this killer
session. "Music will Fade yr Poisons" is up next, unfolding
with a 2-step shuffle and gorgeously padded low-end,
somewhere between Shackleton's "Blood on my Hands" and
anonymously stripped down late 90's UKG - and its just
immense. "The Ballad Of The Broken 606", meanwhile, employs a
modified acrade-game steppa, with the esoteric sound palette
once again leaving itself open to colours and flavours most
producers on this scene wouldn't touch with a bargepole - and
it's so much better for it. "Letter to Stalin" (referencing
Russian dissident Zamyatin after whom this series is named)
is another rumbling bass session invoking and mashing up the
breaks template, before the mighty "Get On The A10 And Drive
And Drive" takes over with it's demented snares and barely
contained low-end rubs, fed through squashed filters and
emerging at the other end with some sublime Detroit-y chords
that turn the whole thing into a mighty 2-step anthem that'll
just wreck the dance. Things come to a close on "Three Dots"
- a sublime chiming tumble that acts as the perfect endpoint
for Ralph Cumbers' most accomplished collection of material
to date - and you're somehow left with the feeling that
things are going to get much more interesting from this point
on for this gifted producer.
2 tracks from Zamyatin Tapes Vol 1 and 2 and 6 previously
unreleased tracks.
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01-Stand By To Dive 00:48
02-Music Will Fade Yr Poisons 03:56
03-The Ballad Of The Broken 606 02:59
04-Letter To Stalin 04:13
05-Get On The A10 And Drive And Drive 06:23
06-Bittersweet All Over The Place 03:50
07-Stokes Croft 3am 03:28
08-Three Dots 07:03
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