Review: With a smattering of releases since 2016 emerging on Rua Sound and Astrophonica, Hackney-based artist outta London Touchy Subject presents his debut album Phonetic Fanatic. An exploration of UK and US beat making and musical expressions, this album blends drum and bass with dubstep and bleep to electronica and footwork in a way that's reminiscent of Mark Pritchard and Equinox on Warp all the way to Flying Lotus via Brainfeeder and the crazier future music on Planet Mu. Find epic shades of breaks, dub and bass across an LP that shines brightly in the dark.
Review: Not to generalise or anything, but Touchy Subject is an absolute badman! With an extensive smorgasbord discog going back a few years now on labels as disparate as Astrophonica and Twizted Movements, here we find him returning to Rua with four more beguiling system-shaking hybrids. 'The General' is proper sci-fi dance hall with the flabbiest of basslines you'll see this side of the pastie factory. It's followed by the purring rootsical rolling dub workout "Seek & Find", an ultra sinewy and venomous "Shudder" and, finally, the head-scratchingly beautiful shuffles of and skitters of "Turnt Up". Unique.
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