Artist: Diverted
Title: Diverted
Label: Air
Genre: Beat
Bitrate: 161kbit av.
Time: 00:55:02
Size: 67.33 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-21
Str Date: 2009-05-11
1. Frederick 5:04
2. Get Loud 3:26
3. Visions 5:07
4. Summer Hiding 6:13
5. Big Baby Fear 5:50
6. Try As Your Might 4:51
7. Rogue Devices 4:57
8. Do You, Is She? (Ft. Nathan Lee) 3:18
9. Goose (Ft. Rhys Baker) 6:03
10. Plum 5:27
11. Creepin' Up (Ft. NineLives The Cat) 4:46
Release Notes:
Live UK breakbeat act Diverted have been busy in the studio
for what seems like an age now putting the final touches to
their hugely anticipated first album which is being released
on Air Recordings. They have attracted a huge fan base that
includes Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier, Justin Robertson,
Eddie Temple Morris, Radioactive Man, and their tunes have
received airplay and support from the likes of Plump Dj's, Lee
Coombs and Meat Katie.
Diverted have built their reputation for energetic live sets
via their monthly residency at London's Air, seeing them
playing alongside acts including the likes of The Bays, Justin
Robertson's, Thee Earls, Kraak & Smaak, Minuit and The London
Breakbeat Orchestra. In February this year, they opened at
Breakspoll 2009 providing almost an hour of live breakbeat,
with Lee Richardson drumming at the centre seeming to have the
solid timing and consistancy of something you'd buy from
Roland or Casio.
Breakspoll 2009 was the first time I had had seen Diverted
perform live, having already bought Frederick, as well as
hearing their vocal edit of dub-step Visions on YouTube, I was
suitably impressed, and it only made me even more curious to
hear what their debut album was going to sound like.
Diverted's album sees them carry their own, but also team up
with the likes of Nathan Flutebox Lee (The beat boxer that
also somehow manages to play the flute at the same time) as
well as Rhys Baker (Our Own Devices) and globetrotting
Australian MC, Nine Lives the Cat. Stand out tracks on the
album include Frederick, the dub step banger Visions, summer
smasher Summer Hiding featuring the rather haunting harmonic
vocals of Danielle James and Big Baby Fear.
The album sounds really polished, warm and there is a dark
undertone to its sound. It features a wide, wide, wide range
of musical genres on it, from your basic club style breaks to
vocal driven dub-step to intricately drum filled glitchy
electronica to some rather warm summer-esque jazz.