BB15: Macka feat. Raevennan Husbandes - Spirals
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£5 from BandcampNight Tracks wrote:Work blows hard, and that's a fact. The world of IT projects for the financial arm of large quasi-non-governmental organisations is not the hotbed of Hollywood glamour many would have you think, so when I receive some promo from Broken Bubble, it can make my day a little better.
But on this occasion, it was my whole week that was made better, such is the amount of time I've had this on rotation. It's the next release from the aforementioned Broken Bubble, by Macka, a London-based producer (and occasional actor), and another one off the labels constant line that mechanically churns out high quality.
You may know by now that I'm not very good at describing genres, but trying to box this in would be a fruitless task, such is the span of this piece. Just when you think this is going to be a take on Berlin-esque Dub Techno when listening to opener "Sirens For Kings", you're shown how completely wrong you are by the time you get to the third track "When You Go", a frantic piece of junglist dubstep and the genre switch-ups don't stop there.
Props to the vocalist Raevennan Husbandes for her delivery, which even when not warped, stretched and pitched by Macka, suits perfectly and adds to the cohesion of the entire release (and this is coming from someone who thinks vocals only work on about 1/10th of the releases they're used on)
In a time where the amount of music I get sent seems to push me towards musical ADD, I rarely find a release that I can listen to and come back to time and time again without skipping off on to the next thing, and I need to big up Broken Bubble for that, who seem to make it their mission to only bring you music that doesn't sound like anything you've ever heard before.
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BB16: Cogidubnus - Memorabilia
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£4 from BandcampNight Tracks wrote:I knew it would be quite a release when I noticed that the opener was 'The Future Boards of Cheadle', a track that caught my ears on Soundcloud a couple of months ago, and it really sets the scene for an EP full of tracks that sound like they were unfortunate to be cut from a Selected Ambient Works of Aphex Twin release (although the name of the track alone more than hints at a homage to The Future Sounds Of London and Boards Of Canada).
In previous reviews of Broken Bubble stuff, I've mentioned that they manage to constantly release stuff unlike anything you've ever heard before, and it's like Cogidubnus took upon a challenge of reinforcing that as strongly as possible. Different though it may be, I can't help but feel like there's sounds I've heard before waiting to burst through, and I guess that just shows how strong the release is. Not many have forged sonic memories into something so futuristic as well as this. It's not easy to do. Cogidubnus himself says "Memorabilia is the past's re-imagning of the future" and he sure hasn't disappointed.
The EP finished with four remixes that could easily form a release capable of standing on it's own with tunes re-imagined by BB stalwarts Pogflipper and Hurtdeer and two outstanding pieces from soon-to-be BB favourites Steamgoat and Sipp, the former being a chilled (loathed as I am to use that term) yet emotional piece,
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