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Gerry Read
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Review: Originally released back in 2015, Stand By... has lost none of its charm. The title track is a high-paced jack track, led by analogue yelps and tight percussion, while on "Tango", Read ploughs a more abrasive furrow: borrowing from producers like Robert Armani and Neil Landstrumm in equal measure, the rickety drums and looped shrieks play out over a viscous bass. "Ur Head" is faster but also redolent of the 90s, with its lithe rhythm and snappy percussion calling to mind vintage Cristian Vogel. "The Grand National" offers up another take on the lo-fi aesthetic, with Read dropping a heady fusion of swung rhythm, percussive bursts and siren riffs before the release concludes with the primal Relief-style jack of "Woosy".
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CJFD 026
10 Dec 21
Techno
10 Dec 21
Techno
Played by: Sccucci Manucci
Review: The Trans-Atlantic production relationship between Gerry Read and Kevin McPhee strengthens a notch or two with the release of Demolition Man, perhaps the most incendiary melding of risque sampling and thumping rhythms since the excellent "A Tender Places" from Bakey USTL. Deviating through various stripped back and thumping moments with little recourse for warning, the moment where a rippling piano refrain lifted from some forgotten '90s rave anthem comes floating through before being rudely ripped from the groove typifies perfectly the unhinged joy that listening to this track brings.
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DEMOLITIONMAN
22 Jul 13
Techno
22 Jul 13
Techno
Review: Having firmly found his groove with UK labels such as 2nd Drop and Fourth Wave, Gerry Read's latest EP sees that further notch in his ascendancy as he gets snapped up by Dutch institution Delsin to kick off their new house-orientated series. Stylistically, the four tracks on this new EP continue the mission statement Read has already laid out; there's a claustrophobic quality to lead track "Yeh Come Dance", that finds a cacophony of wooden percussion and angular vocal loops sweating all over each other while the hi-hats leer on drunkenly. As something of a contrast, the beat in "Crawlspace" is decidedly straight by these standards, letting the sequencing of the drum machine call more of the shots before too much wayward sample placing can send the rhythm askew. It doesn't take much to see the jazzy quality in Read's music, but "Bozza" perhaps marks the first instance where this quality has been capitalised on and fully realised. In that sense it marks something of a progression for the young beatsmith, as the complex arrangement of brushed drums, piano and other sonic debris aim for a place other than that usual seedy corner of the dancefloor. "Crooked" rounds off the EP with by distilling all these feelings into one track of strung out strangeness, where the groove is borrowed from garage and then robbed of its innocence, with an underlying bed of mean-spirited audio fragments. As with all the GR output it's evocative stuff, and reminds you that this EP marks not just consistency but also progress for the plucky producer.
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DSR-H1
26 Mar 12
Techno
26 Mar 12
Techno
