a r t i s t : Rashamon
t i t l e : Windo Loca
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Highpoint Lowlife
c a t : hpll008
s o u r c e : 7" Vinyl
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2008
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 10,6 MB
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Highpoint Lowlife's first excursion into the world of vinyl
fetishism is a deliciously cute slab of 7" vinyl, limited to a
run of 300 copies. What better way to kick off this new era,
than with an explosive indie-rock leaning slice of head
nodding hip-hop inspired beats by Brighton's Rashamon
Lee Hume and Seb Wyatt form the main components of Rashamon, a
deliberately mispelling of the title of an Akira Kurosawa
film. Lee combines a love of lush organic guitars, melodica,
thumb pianos and xylophones with a passion for old school hip
hop and funk and creates a heady mixture of clashing beats and
drones with Sebs improvised guitar mayhem.
Reviews
"Fetishists take note: Windo Loca is a tasty slice of 7-inch
vinyl from Brighton's Rashamon (the name a deliberate
misspelling of Kurosawa's film title) that pairs Seb Wyatt's
guitar loops with Lee Hume's samples and programming on two
crunchy head-nodders. Experimental and fluid, the title cut
places slow-motion, hip-hop beats and skittish breaks front
and center, and colours them with subtle wisps of melodic
sparkles and droning guitar strums; the B side's '(Forgotten)
Sherpa Folk Song' merges gentle phasing patterns with slamming
beat clatter and manic xylophones. (Note too that Rashamon's
equally fine 'Mates To Some Pilgrim' original along with
remixes from Si-cut.db, Motion, and Fisk Industries are
available as free downloads at the Highpoint Lowlife site.)"
Stylus Magazine
"Highpoint Lowlife do it again, with another great musical
offering. This time Rashamon delivers the goods on a nice two
track 7". Melodic, but not twee electronica with a heavy dose
of hip hop styling to the beats and some great moment of
considerably more experimental programming. Always returns to
a coherent and fluid sound thats full of groove as well as
warmth. File next to Machine Drum and Prefuse, and that should
give you an idea of what it's like. Excellent stuff as always"
Smallfish Records, London
"Another utterly captivating 7" platter is this here thing wot
came in from Highpoint Lowlife this morn. It's 2 rather lovely
numbers from Rashamon!! We have 'Windo Loca' being a lovely
gentle mostly instrumental piece with shades of a gentle
Prefuse, or less jazzy Four tet, containing as it does a
lovely guitar loop & some understated atmospherics B4
finishing with a spot of laptop assisted beat-staggering
mayhem. The flip is equally intoxicating, a glitched tin pot
beat under something that sounds like an open can of twisted
dreampop twinkling. Bloomin ace. We may run out of these
pretty quick but will get more from t'label asap if we do!"
Norman Records, Leeds
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01-Windo Loca [04:00]
02-(Forgotten) Sherpa Folk Song [03:20]
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07:20 min