Review: Belgium-based French artist La Dame makes her debut on Bristol's Banoffee Pies Records with her four track EP titled Zumbidos, bringing together disparate influences 'with aim to illustrate and reflect the different sounds inhabiting the city of Sao Paulo.' Subtle and off-kilter rhythms underpin dreamy harmonica and wall of sound bass of the deeply meditative "Suaves Rumores" (feat. Mr Jo), followed by the UK influenced deep dubstep of "Conscious" featuring Goldie B's in-depth lyricism, while the low end theories continue on the playful bass shenanigans of "Non Ducor, Duco" and closing with the broken beat jazz hybrid of "Dazzled" with French pianist Florian Pellissier.
Review: We have to say, the Banoffee Pies crew have pulled a seriously cool gem out of the ground with this EP as they welcome the futuristic production styles of Herman inside for four tracks of blissful, tech-inspired beauty. Opening up we find ourselves exploring the heavy vocal overlays and gut-punching sub pressures of 'Unlocked', which through a very cool collection of percussive twists, opens up the EP with some real panashe. From here, more sweeping goodness as 'Echo Trip' focusses on minimal melodic pad textures and more of those percussive darts, followed by some super bouncy breakbeat action on 'Solidarity Breaks', which utilizes a very catchy vocal sample to add even more substance. Finally, the amazonian half-time rhythms of 'Gevangen' give us one hell of an outro to chow down upon, with an encapsulating display of percussive mastery seeing out the EP with one hell of a splash!
Review: This latest drop from the Banoffee Pies team is a pretty spicy one to say the least as Hassan Abou Alam arrives in style, launching four seriously crunchy rollers, with the grimey pulses and unorthodox 2-step style rhythms of 'Kesibt' kicking things off. The title track 'Fasla' then follows, utilising unique vocal sample lines and a colourful display of slowly shifting drum sets for another unique sonic episode, before the more stripped back rhythmic arrangements and glitchy percussive inputs of 'Mawkif' then unleash a jittering bubbler. Finally, 'Hanshoof' unleashes a really cool combination of unique bass sounds and hard hitting drum rolls for a more techno-influenced outro, rounding things off nicely!
Review: For the next edition of Banoffee Pies, Pugilist leaps out with give tracks of drum-heavy abandon, launching with the breaks-laced 'Deja Vu', dipped in warm chord progressions and sweeping harmonics above, before we here 'Future Retro' rework a dubwise vocal line into a nostalgic hardcore epic. Next, 'Static' arrives right on cue with a bubbling display of Amazonian drum rhythms and floating atmospherics, with the industrial drum switches and moogy synth pulses of 'Sky Blue' following closely behind. This project is a fantastic look into the varying states of Pugilist's instrumental influences, with the final track 'Illumination' exploring the more dancefloor orientated side of his spectrum, combining sweeping synth lines and shuffling 2-step drums for a perfect finale.
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