Review: When Ninja Tune come knocking on your door to remix one of their artists, in this case Machinedrum, you answer. dBridge welcomes Travis Stewart's "Rise N Fall" into his studio with a vocal build up that drops into an emotional pulse of stepping drums and twinkling atmospheres. Om Unit's remix of "Gunshotta" delivers an old school bassline and frenetic jungle percussion, while Moresound pitches rave against touches of footwork, drum and bass and a whole load of bootyshake in his remix of "Dont 1 2 Lose U". For something a little more easoteric, Fis detunes and twists "Eyesdontlie" into a cavernous throb of earthshaking rumbles with demonic vocal loops adding an extra haunting vibe.
Review: After his Room(s) long player for Planet Mu confirmed him as an unsung hero amongst US beatsmiths, Travis Stewart follows up that gargantuan effort with this turn for Ninja Tune. It's a deeply atmospheric album that works Stewart's palpable love of jungle breaks into richly atmospheric pieces that move through sometimes mournful, sometimes dreamlike spaces that hang together like all the pieces of a creative puzzle should. At times the tone is blissful, as on "Center Your Love", while the immaculate breaks give way to strung out coldwave balladry on "U Still Lie". His sense of adventure as intact as ever, Stewart happily follows up such contemplation with the feisty tech-step precision of "Eyesdontlie", ensuring there's never a dull moment across the ten tracks.
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