Artist: Sound Strider
Title: Intrepid Travels EP
Label: La Briche Records
Date: February, 2014
01 - The Stakes (115 BPM) 02 - Menlo Park (115 BPM) 03 - Childhoods End (115 BPM) 04 - Limit (130 BPM) 05 - Betoniere (105 BPM)
Gritty beats, juicy bass, and samples aplenty is what you get here. Throw in some turntablism and the recipe for nasty in a good way is there. Sometimes the percussion is off beat on purpose which is kinda cool. I feel they do themselves a disservice though with the extended length of their tracks at this slow bpm.
What's that? They're not that long? So why the f*ck did it feel like I was running through pudding? Childhood Dream sounded like a slow depressive spiral where they were just f*cking with their machines. Betoniere was random messing about to my ears. The whole thing didn't have enough variation to fill the space. It's an...interesting break from the everyday I would say...
In May...
On a stack of hay...
If you're...gay?
*phone rings*
"Hello? You're with who? Ah, human resources. Yes, I understand, I'll...I'll be right up"
Damn, that's the third time this week. They must really like me.
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Mdk