Archie Pelago - "Subway Gothic" - (6:04)
130 BPM Archie Pelago - "Ladymarkers" - (4:20) 107 BPM
Review: After a heartfelt debut on Mister Saturday Night, Archie Pelago return with further adventures in instrumentation and modern beats, this time for Brighton's Well Rounded posse. "Subway Gothic" starts off in breezy tones, feeding snatches of saxophone, guitar, vocal and more into a dextrous beat pattern and smoothing it out with a melodic warmth, but there's surprises to be had, not least in the orchestral squall of the breakdown and the percussive intensity of the drop. "Ladymarkers" is a more subdued affair, riding a slow, broken house beat and letting those fragments of real-world musicality nip and dart around the groove with a free-flowing, jazz informed energy.
from $1.89WRINDIV 006
25 Feb 13
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz