Review: Following an EP on Dnuos Ytivil back in 2020, Ido Plumes now debuts on the mother label, Livity. While Balancing has its dance floor moments thanks to the frenetic dub techno of "Sitting in the Clouds", it equally also has an abstract undercurrent. This is audible on "Afloat", which benefits from the use of a bubbling bass and a frenetic, off-centre rhythm. On "Waiting 4 Us", Ido Plumes favours a similar approach, albeit with a murmuring low end and rolling drums providing the basis for a range of gurgling bleeps and tones. Meanwhile on "Been Here", this emerging artist draws on the history of 90s UK dance, wrapping slivers of hardcore melodies into the arrangement's robust broken beats.
Review: With the swift tempos, experimental beatmaking and leftfield club styles of Livity Sound a decade in the making now, Molten Mirrors Part 2 further champions friends and family of the influential Bristol label. With Pev & Kowton holding it down with an edgier dub techno experimentalism in "Exhale", Bruce explores the nether regions of futuristic and industrial rave with "Just Getting On With It", while Hodge brightens things up with the positive reinforcement of his melodic breakbeats in "Do What You Need To Do". Livity Sound's French quarter gets its inspirations from Toma Kami's middle-eastern motifs and funnelled jungle beats in "Sixty Frames", next to the rhythmic and deconstructed sound design of Simo Cell's "El Gato Loco". Tripped-out after hour numbers come through Ido Plumes's "Albeit" alongside some broken beat techno from Jurango and some live synth renditions by Livity Sound newcomer Surgeons Girl. And for the extra wildcard touch, check out Kouslin's lurking "Racket".
Review: Adding a long awaited second release to the 2020 discography of Air Max '97's Decisions label is a new and expressive release of contemporary beat making and experimentalisms from a select group of future music artists. Take the deep and heavy blows to come from Avbvrn's percussive landscape "Foment (Recursive)" over to the rolling wood sticks and syncopated drums of Collo's "Bantu Nilote". DJ Plead drops in with some tribalistic sci-fi in "STP'' with field recordings, broken glass and deconstructivisms flung left, right and centre by artists Bby Eco and Emily Glass. Air Max '97 chips in himself with a ping ponging "Triple Pendulum" alongside some Atlanta-inspired R&B from SCAM & Sevy in a various artist compilation journeying through a netherworld of springloaded club music.
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