Artist : Dam Mantle
Album : Purple Arrow EP
Year : 2010
Genre : Electronic
Quality : LAME 3.98 (320kbps) / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
Date : 13-09-2010
Playtime : 18:32 min
Size : 4 Track(s): 43.77MB
Source : WEB
Cat.Num : GROWING001DL
Label : Growing Records
01. Theatre 4:29
02. Broken Slumber 5:13
03. Purple Arrow 5:04
04. Two Women 3:46
http://boomkat.com/downloads/334098-dam-mantle-purple-arrow-ep
Debut drop from Growing Records, presenting another intriguing release from
Glasgow's Dam Mantle. Over the course of the last 6 months a series of
beguiling, delicately sculpted and instinctively psyched releases from this guy
have aroused widespread curiosity, resulting in a forthcoming remix for
GonjaSufi on Warp, among others. The closest comparison for his fractal 8-bit
beats would be his ally Becoming Real, also finding parallels in the fried
silicon styles of LA's Alpha Pup posse. While taking inspiration from dubstep
and crunked hiphop, their beats are largely subservient to spooling layers of
deft electronics, as with the halfstep lurch and Tapes-alike melodies of
'Theatre', or the fluid blue trickle of emotive electric current and spectral
harmonics in 'Broken Slumber'. On the flip 'Purple Arrow' successfully adds
chipmunk vocals to the equation with billowing rave synth strikes and kosmische
flutters, and 'Two Women' manages to sound like Islaja or some other Finnish
forest crew attempting dubstep. Recommended.