Review: Simon Shreeve appears again this year for Karl O'Connor's esteemed imprint, following up the impressive Healing Bowl EP. It's no wonder really; the man also known as Monic pushes the kind of highly-engineered modern industrial music on his own Osiris Musik label, so easily finds a welcome home here. On side A, harsh textural abrasions are contrasted by body bashing bass frequencies on the demonic "System Living" while the seething and slow burning breaks contrasted by eerie chimes and nefarious sound design on "Silver Sun" sounds like running through a nightmare in slow motion. The paranoid and immersive sound design of the title track (on the flip) is reminiscent of some of Trent Reznor's soundtrack work, yet fantastic in its own right. Like Shifted is doing likewise of late, Shreeve deconstructs the classic aesthetic of UK techstep, deconstructing it in a modern format.
Review: Simon Shreeve is mainly known for his work under the Monic guise and as part of the dubstep act Kryptic Minds, and Bowl is the first release under his own name. It sounds like Regis' label is the ideal platform for this music; "S/KA" throws up a dense rhythm and rumbling break beats and the title track explores this theme further, with what sounds like a herd of elephants shrieking over the kind of primal beats last heard on Regis' In A Syrian Tongue. Shreeve also displays a more reflective side here; "A Thousand & One" is built on eerie textures and microscopic beats, while "Sharda" goes back to broken beats but wraps them around melancholic, introspective melodies.
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