Releases thus far
Releases thus far
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band - The Golden Lagoon
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band truly inhabit their own outernational realm,
filtered through Psych-Tropique fantasy, post-exotic atmospheres and Batucada Carnival colours. Welcome to…
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band - The Golden Lagoon
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band truly inhabit their own outernational realm,
filtered through Psych-Tropique fantasy, post-exotic atmospheres and Batucada Carnival colours. Welcome to…
King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band
Cover images re-designed from The Golden Lagoon artwork by Andrew Kerr; Cover font courtesy of Fenotype
Interpretations and Remixes
Bunty with David entice us back to Volcano Lagoon with a latin-swung electroton rhythm, beautifully embellished with Bunty’s own lyrical style, while Alphabets Heaven impressesa typically dexterous, sub-heavy, broken-beat, brassy bounce onto Ai, Que Calor!.
Ani Kcam whips up the palpable desert energy of Magic Sand, twisting and distorting into a relentless, percussive alien swarmer, before zillagramwiches anaesthetises Gazelle Vs Gazelle into an intensely woozy, tightly wound, late-night street beat.
Proprio shifts One Leg into a deep dubby cave, a wailing saxophonic collage, sparse voxand echoing percussion obey the synth-bass groove, until DJ Eggs Legs raises the spirits, revealing 100 000 Islands as an extended percussive thumper, hot electronic flourishes and electric licks invite the dance.
Finally two unique performances; King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish & Friends - Levitation Improvisation [Rodrigo Kerr (Various Sounds), Don Benjamin (Sax), Pete Piskov (Flute), Iain Paxon (Synth)] a free floating, spiritual exotica piece with aromas of psychedelic jazz.
Then closing the release with a piece by zillagramwiches & mariolenard, propelling us into a weightless otherworld orbit, a panoramic space walk of epic proportions, incorporating and reinterpreting the interludes from The Golden Lagoon LP.
The Golden Lagoon
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band truly inhabit their own outernational realm,
filtered through Psych-Tropique fantasy, post-exotic atmospheres and Batucada Carnival colours. Welcome to…
Regally dressed with pulsing Latin percussion, whirling Soukous funk electrics, Rumba bass lines,
and Psychedelic brass freakouts, nestling between Martin Denny, Yma Sumac and Eden Ahbez -esque island exotica.
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King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band - ‘The Golden Lagoon’...Absolutely fantastic album...”A psychedelic-Exotique Afro-Latin Adventure”...highly recommended! pic.twitter.com/mJoKeaikdq
— Union Music Store (@unionmusicstore) November 23, 2019
The culmination of 6+ years of energetic recordings and fantastically wild, aroma-filled live performances across the UK at the likes of Bestival, Shambala and Tropical Pressure festivals, The Golden Lagoon arrives as a flowing, cross-continental drift of an LP, carried by bandleader Rodrigo Kerr's passion for his South American roots and the collective's tight embrace of Afro-Latin rhythms and psychedelic imagination.
The Golden Lagoon is packed with unbound passion and explosive arrangements;
drums thump, bells & whistles fly, heavy-shaken rhythms skirt post-punk flashes, brass harmonies dance with rousing Portuguese chants...
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Join us as King Lagoon' bring their own thrilling Afro-Latin festivities to an undiscovered isle somewhere between Rio, Kinshasha and Brighton!
If living on a tropical island sound like your kind of thing, you can do it cheaply by listening to the new album by King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band https://t.co/wRhU5Kp4kD
— Hororo (@Hororo) November 15, 2019
‘’ Love this record, King Lagoon take us on a superb tripped out tropical afro-pysche journey ‘’Gareth / Mr Bongo, Brighton
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‘’ Superb debut from King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band, who filtered their tropical psychedelia through the prism of post-exotica and frenetic batucada... Killer release! ’’Sounds Of The Universe, Soho
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‘’ Superb album, Punky Funky Afro Brazil Jazz ‘’ LoveVinyl, Shoreditch
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‘’ An ambitious visionary twist on traditional global music. An experience taking you on a journey that refuses to conform, yet the destination always places you in satisfying territory. ‘’ Analogue October, Chichester
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‘’ Absolutely fantastic album... highly recommended! ‘’ Union Music, Lewes
zillagramwiches: lifebits / IDIOT / IDIOT remixes (Kin-008)
A bursting cassette release from zillagramwiches, featuring 38 tracks and productions in all, including collaborations w/ DrowzyBeats, crooked crossed & LongHomr alongside remixes from crooked crossed, Branner Griswell, mariolenard, Proprio, Atomico and Elsa Hewitt.
zillagramwiches: lifebits / IDIOT / IDIOT remixes (Kin-008)
A bursting cassette release from zillagramwiches, featuring 38 tracks and productions in all, including collaborations w/ DrowzyBeats, crooked crossed & LongHomr alongside remixes from crooked crossed, Branner Griswell, mariolenard, Proprio, Atomico and Elsa Hewitt.
zillagramwiches
lifebits, IDIOT and IDIOT remixes
A bursting cassette release from zillagramwiches, featuring 38 tracks and productions in all, including collaborations w/ DrowzyBeats, crooked crossed & Longhomr alongside remixes from crooked crossed, Branner Griswell, mariolenard, Proprio, Atomico and Elsa Hewitt.
Brighton producer, zillagramwiches brings a mega debut collection, mesmerising and absorbing with his poly-resolution sound.
Loaded with synthesised textures, morphing beat electronics, video game atmospherics and fleeting virtual vaporwave realities;
His is a world to get lost in.
IDIOT (remixes)
Six hot remixes now streaming, with crooked crossed, branner griswell, mariolenard, proprio, atomico & elsa hewitt all beat resetting trax from zillagramwiches' IDIOT release.
Also, available as part of the limited tape box.
E.I.E.1.2. (Remixes) | Euphony In Electronics / 1.2 (Kin-007)
Euphony In Electronics returns for a second phase with the original crew...
One Point Two sees the Brighton/London sextet of producers regather for a remix rotation, re-shaping a track apiece into their own vision, blurring analogue and digital channels, and producing 6 re-imagined versions that glimpse the creative flow of each.
E.I.E. E.P.1.2. features remixes from: Proprio, Alphabets Heaven, Scaramanga Silk, Electric Ape, Atomico and Inwards.
E.I.E.1.2. (Remixes) | Euphony In Electronics / 1.2 (Kin-007)
Euphony In Electronics returns for a second phase with the original crew...
One Point Two sees the Brighton/London sextet of producers regather for a remix rotation, re-shaping a track apiece into their own vision, blurring analogue and digital channels, and producing 6 re-imagined versions that glimpse the creative flow of each.
E.I.E. E.P.1.2. features remixes from: Proprio, Alphabets Heaven, Scaramanga Silk, Electric Ape, Atomico and Inwards.
E.I.E. E.P.1.2
Euphony In Electronics / One Point Two (Remixes)
| Proprio | Alphabets Heaven | Scaramanga Silk | Electric Ape | Atomico | Inwards |
Euphony In Electronics returns for a second phase with the original crew...
One Point Two sees the Brighton/London sextet of producers regather for a remix rotation, re-shaping a track apiece into their own vision, blurring analogue and digital channels, and producing 6 re-imagined versions that glimpse the creative flow of each.
1. Alphabets Heaven - Amin (Proprio's High Humidity Remix)
Proprio brings a stuttering post-monsoon of a remix to Amin, loaded with pressure-dropping atmospherics and
glistening synths, saturating the jewel sharp original, it fies with a mutant 2-step shuffe and transports a snapping
outernational swing.
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2. Inwards - Limbic System (Alphabets Heaven Remix)
The heaving analogue synth intimacy of Limbic System is transmitted into an unabashed foor banger,
Alphabets Heaven excites with a latent garage bounce and ratcheting percussion, its warping propeller bassline
and massive refrains are a call to move.
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3. Electric Ape - Theme from The Infernal Machine
(Scaramanga Silk's Remix from the Miniaturisation Laboratory)
The doom-laden Infernal Machine is hacked and rewired by Silk's wizardry; spellbound and tamed, laced with
dazzling arpegiations, semiconducting and re-processing into a bright, beat-less high defnition synthesised display.
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4. Scaramanga Silk - Velvet Raindrops (Electric Ape's Dog Ate My Remix)
Glancing back to the halcyon days, Electric Ape builds an epic structure around that bassline, circling chimes set
the rhythm for the frantic percussive techno-riffng beatwork and an impending thump that cuts through the digisymphonic
strings.
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5. Proprio - Columbo (Atomico Remix)
Striking Columbo with a disorientating blow, Atomico's semi-conscious version distresses the groove, veering
back and forth, that heavy rhythm yields under wrought metallic distortion, sinewy beats and a sweetly rousing
guitar refrain.
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6. Atomico - Forever (Inwards' Forever Far Removed Remix) 02:40
As the original is obscured and suppressed, Inwards builds an intense horizon-dominating haze; swaying,
hypnotising, lulling... until the ambient drama is seared & paced with low-end feeding analogue bass commands.
Branner Griswell: Versus (Kin-006)
B-movie soundtracking, grotty rhythms, unsettling ambience and ominous atmospherics; welcome to the electronic beat-wielding chiller, Branner Griswell.
Versus creeps from Beat Exotica and Crawling Bass-funk, to Razored Electronics, Ambient Soundscaping and Half-Exhumed Noise.
100 Unique limited cassettes, each with individual artwork 'Verses 100 Series' insert by Tree Abraham, download included.
Also available as download and stream.
Branner Griswell: Versus (Kin-006)
B-movie soundtracking, grotty rhythms, unsettling ambience and ominous atmospherics; welcome to the electronic beat-wielding chiller, Branner Griswell.
Versus creeps from Beat Exotica and Crawling Bass-funk, to Razored Electronics, Ambient Soundscaping and Half-Exhumed Noise.
100 Unique limited cassettes, each with individual artwork 'Verses 100 Series' insert by Tree Abraham, download included.
Also available as download and stream.
Branner Griswell - Versus
(KIN-006)
a side
1. Oh Jonny (The Branner Griswell Theme)
2. The Reanimator
3. Alice Walks Outside
4. Wei Tu Lin and Lily Li Dissolve in the Park
5. Mongoose Queen
6. Red Tracer Letdown
Versus creeps from Beat Exotica and Crawling Bass-funk, to Razored Electronics, Ambient Soundscaping and Half-Exhumed Noise.
B-movie soundtracking, grotty rhythms, unsettling ambience and ominous atmospherics; welcome to the electronic beat-wielding chiller, Branner Griswell.
'Verses 100 Series' by Tree Abraham.
Cover image by: Chris Sciacca, Battle 2015.
Each cassette is unique, individually numbered, and includes individual artwork insert by Tree Abraham and digital download on WAV, FLAC, MP3, etc.
b side
7. Clairvius Narcisse
8. Banoi Island Rendezvous
9. Preacher's Touch
10. Agent Irons
11. Li Grand Zombi
12. Idiot Son
13. End of Days
All new @BrannerGriswell 'Red Tracer Letdown’ is now in rotation on https://t.co/3IKXaqQs4J - @kin_recordings pic.twitter.com/cMBbyJKxqX
— The Lake (@TheLakeRadio) 8 December 2015
Lots of music from the far North on #LateJunction (#VeritySharp) tonight but also @BrannerGriswell from Brighton & @MortButane from Airedale
— BBC Radio 3 (@BBCRadio3) 16 December 2015
Picked this up @beartreerecords Awesome packaging and killer tape thanks @kin_recordings pic.twitter.com/VcDuw4gM8K
— Graham Shapley (@GrahamShapley) January 16, 2016
Got our copy of Branner Griswell's Album: Versus.
— TheBeesMouth (@TheBeesMouth) November 29, 2015
Amazing. Buy here...https://t.co/TIhtYKpUN7 pic.twitter.com/BNSYnZeNRJ
Support for tracks from Versus:
Branner Griswell : versus" Now in store! Limited to 100 #kin+aesthetic #brannergriswell… https://t.co/DVK4cFCVvr
— Transmission (@transmissionwax) November 28, 2015
Delighted to hear @BrannerGriswell' Mongoose Queen closing Mr Maconie's Sunday Freakzone on BBC6, most excellent... https://t.co/RmRaMg477p
— Kin-Aesthetic Rcdngs (@kin_recordings) January 20, 2016
This Branner Griswell track is fantastic @BBCRadio3 #latejunction
— Martyn Cain (@bassmartyn) 16 December 2015
E.I.E.1.1. Euphony In Electronics / 1.1 (Kin-005)
Release number 5 explores atmospheric electronics;
Six electronically rooted, liquid tracks from six fine producers.
E.I.E. E.P.1.1. features new tracks from: Alphabets Heaven, Atomico, Electric Ape, Inwards, Proprio & Scaramanga Silk.
E.I.E.1.1. Euphony In Electronics / 1.1 (Kin-005)
Release number 5 explores atmospheric electronics;
Six electronically rooted, liquid tracks from six fine producers.
E.I.E. E.P.1.1. features new tracks from: Alphabets Heaven, Atomico, Electric Ape, Inwards, Proprio & Scaramanga Silk.
Various Artists:
E.I.E. E.P.1.1
Euphony In Electronics / One Point One
(KIN-005)
The first in a new series from Kin-Aesthetic Recordings, exploring atmospheric electronics; six electronically rooted, liquid tracks from six fine producers: Alphabets Heaven, Atomico, Electric Ape, Inwards, Proprio and Scaramanga Silk.
| Circuit board imagery by Casperangel | Photography & design by Kin;Aesthetic | Analogue mastered by Sigmatix UK Ltd. | Additional mastering at The Scaffold. |
Various Artists:
E.I.E. E.P.1.1
Euphony In Electronics / One Point One (KIN-005)
Electric Ape
Opening with the uneasy heart-beating toll of Theme from The Infernal Machine, rising up with an inescapable stomp-march, its gloriously cold analogue bite might soundtrack a Zombi attack on the outskirts of Detroit.
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Inwards
Tentatively, Limbic System follows. Rebalancing to ambient calm with half-glanced shimmers and softly pulsing neuro-transmissions, the atmosphere breathes and lulls hypnotically, clicking, popping and geiger-counter ticking from within.
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Alphabets Heaven
The intensity is ratcheted up with Amin, a quick-witted liquid beat that modulates, shifts and snaps, with a knowing nod, yet a fresh tenacity. Spacious, sharp, percussive; this circling groove deserves a jittering dancefloor.
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Atomico
Re-doubling the energetic leap with this almost-lost production from 99', the taut electronic funk-beat of Forever brings an otherworldly depth, ghostly atmospherics and hot-footed drums serenade the divine closing quarter' molten synth-line.
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Scaramanga Silk
Condensing into electrically charged cloud cover, the tropical ambience of Velvet Raindrops weighs heavy. The sultry electronic climate swells and swirls, threatening to explode, still the rich humidity reigns supreme.
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Proprio
Finally, we stumble into the drowsy, drunken, distorted synth-groove of Columbo. Off-balance, world-worn, the excavated crooked beat rocks back and forth, strewn with end-of-night murmurs, yet crucially breaking into thumping coherence.
E.I.E.1.1 received support from National, International and Specialist shows including BBC Radio 3's Late Junction courtesy of Nick Luscombe & Verity Sharp, BBC6 Music courtesy of Gideon Coe, Pilote via Train 45, Lost Idol on Morning Glory, Chris Wave on Seventh Wave, Spirit Of Gravity on Resonance Extra and on rotation via Danish curated radio station, The Lake.
Va: Second First Impression (Remixed)(Kin-004)
Kin;Aesthetic / Various - Second First Impression (Remixed)
A spectrum spanning burst of remixes from Inwards, Clas Tuuth, Proprio, Scaramanga Silk, Electric Ape, Pilote & Listening Mirror.
Va: Second First Impression (Remixed)(Kin-004)
Kin;Aesthetic / Various - Second First Impression (Remixed)
A spectrum spanning burst of remixes from Inwards, Clas Tuuth, Proprio, Scaramanga Silk, Electric Ape, Pilote & Listening Mirror.
Va: Second First Impression
(Remixed)
The fourth release from Kin-Aesthetic Recordings, featuring 7 luminescent reinterpretations of Kin;Aesthetic's First Impression E.P...
A spectrum spanning burst of remixes, Brighton's rapidly heating electronics scene is represented with varying shades of crisp analogue beat electronics from a trio of emerging producers, Electric Ape, Inwards, and Proprio, while the droned atmospheric textures come from cult ambient specialist, Brighton's revered Listening Mirror.
Weighing in from further afield, the esteemed and longstanding Pilote brings his finely honed downbeat craftsmanship to bear while quicker-stepping London pressure comes from a pair of shadowy ascending figures, touting two distinct sharp electronic grooves, Clas Tuuth and Scaramanga Silk.
Tracks from the EP received plays on BBC6 Music from Stuart Maconie, Don Letts and Gideon Coe as well as attention from specialist shows on XFM, NTS, Radio Reverb and Frome FM.
Kin;Aesthetic / Scaramanga Silk: Dark Energy EP (Kin-003)
Kin;Aesthetic / Scaramanga Silk - Dark Energy EP
The third release, a split effort of excitable electronics from label founder Kin;Aesthetic alongside Scaramanga Silk.
Kin;Aesthetic / Scaramanga Silk: Dark Energy EP (Kin-003)
Kin;Aesthetic / Scaramanga Silk - Dark Energy EP
The third release, a split effort of excitable electronics from label founder Kin;Aesthetic alongside Scaramanga Silk.
Kin;Aesthetic + Scaramanga Silk
Dark Energy EP
Our third release presents Dark Energy, a split effort of excitable electronics from the ephemeral London producer Scaramanga Silk, alongside label curator Kin;Aesthetic.
Producing an original track each as well as a reciprocal remix of the others, with four tracks in total, the Dark Energy EP explores Sci-Fi futurism taking in aspects of Techno, Electro, 2-Step and Bass.
1. Kin;Aesthetic - Killer Joule 04:35
Kin;Aesthetic opens the ‘Dark Energy’ EP with the spring-loaded Killer Joule, a rough-edged, calorific floor shaker.
The endlessly jittery, Franco-filtered, hyperactive homage is propelled with a raucous energy and naïve electro-pop vigour. Drawing on ‘Homework’ era Daft Punk as a key influence, this little rocket aims to revisit the classic French sound with renewed spark.
2. Kin;Aesthetic - Killer Joule (Scaramanga Silk's Remix from the Three City Triangle) 03:20
Scaramanga Silk's take of Killer Joule is a considered re-imagining that expands his previous outings. The result is a deconstructed, techno-checking re-take.
Arresting the original and re-engineering with industrially refined mechanised beats, Silk builds his own motoring warehouse thriller. Metal-worked rhythms and grinding bass rub against moody growls and
harp-like sparkles, all conspicuously gathered somewhere between London, Detroit and Berlin.
This techno-fusion culminates in a Tronik House meets Teebs encounter, where rave bass joins glittering melodica.
3. Scaramanga Silk - Odyssey of the Burnt Out Star 04:26
Scaramanga Silk's own offering is a glassy, cold-fission, synth-strung hybrid.
Odyssey Of The Burnt Out Star unfolds with impending menace, 2-stepping beats fidget and cut through ominous glacial synth layers, ghostly gas pocket swells and deep-set bassline eruptions.
If Burial and Com Truise remixed the Bladerunner soundtrack, it might just sound like this....
4. Scaramanga Silk - Odyssey of the Burnt Out Star (Kin;Aesthetic's Neutron Star Remix) 07:24
Kin;Aesthetic's reciprocal remix takes a soaring new trajectory, burning and transforming with energetic bursts, it turns the
original elements towards an epic fusion, embracing the 2-step essence and morphing into a shifting, shimmering, shuffling,
heat-treated blaze, all fuelled by the Odyssey Of The Burnt Out Star.
A colossal reworking which hints at classic Detroit records (in the vein of Carl Craig and Underground Resistance), but with a fresh rhythmic take that launches it into 2014 and beyond.
Produced by Kin;Aesthetic & Scaramanga Silk respectively.
Tracks 2, 3 & 4 mastered by Kev at Berry St. Studio, London.
The EP picked up airplay on BBC6 music from Nemone, with Scaramanga Silk's remix getting a spin on her Electric Ladyland show.
Transparencies I (Kin-002)
Transparencies I - Nimbus / Proprio
The first release in the Transparencies series begins with Brighton's Nimbus and Proprio offering up a track each of improvised analogue electronics.
Transparencies I (Kin-002)
Transparencies I - Nimbus / Proprio
The first release in the Transparencies series begins with Brighton's Nimbus and Proprio offering up a track each of improvised analogue electronics.
Transparencies I
Nimbus / Proprio
The first release in the Transparencies series begins with Brighton's Nimbus and Proprio offering up a track each of improvised analogue electronics.
1. Nimbus - Transport 11:01
2. Proprio - Prism 08:52
Submissions for Transparencies are welcome. The Transparencies abstract is here.
As an aside to the series, the Transparencies Soundcloud group continued to encourage and present pieces which, while perhaps not strictly created within the rules of the series, still capture something akin to the spirit of Transparencies. Soundcloud has since removed the group function.
Kin;Aesthetic - First Impression EP (Kin-001)
The first release on Kin-Aesthetic Recordings, the First Impression E.P. came from label founder Kin;Aesthetic, introducing 4 distinct yet familial tracks, replete with DIY assembled beatwork, nagging arpeggiations and a hint of slightly awkward electronic pop.
Kin;Aesthetic - First Impression EP (Kin-001)
The first release on Kin-Aesthetic Recordings, the First Impression E.P. came from label founder Kin;Aesthetic, introducing 4 distinct yet familial tracks, replete with DIY assembled beatwork, nagging arpeggiations and a hint of slightly awkward electronic pop.
Kin;Aesthetic
First Impression EP
The first release on Kin-Aesthetic Recordings, the First Impression E.P. came from label founder Kin;Aesthetic, introducing 4 distinct yet familial tracks, replete with DIY assembled beatwork, nagging arpeggiations and a hint of slightly awkward electronic pop...
1. Internal Mechanisms 05:59
2. Swathes 04:06
3. Hyper-Ventilate 04:59
4. Clutch Control 03:48
Released: 08 April 2013.
1&2 Mastered by Kev at Berry Street Studio, London.
3&4 Mastered by Kin;Aesthetic at The Scaffold, Brighton.
Beginning with the heart-beaten distant rumble of Internal Mechanisms, the pulsing groove and transfixing melody grow alongside electrical bleeps, whirs and pops, before jumpstarting to life with a cascade of machine-like synth sparks.
The rising tidal unease of Swathes follows; looming layers of sinister synth pull you beneath the claustrophobic haze, broken only by a disorientated pattern of calming thumps, lighthouse ticks and distress flare snares.
On the flip, we're confronted by the heavily arpeggiated hip-hop urgency of Hyper-Ventilate, a breathing, heaving groove that expands from slight anxiety to full-blown emergency. Rolling drums and warping percussion join forces with increasingly intense poly-arpeggiations, building and fusing to a steamrolling head.
Finally, we explode into the closing quarter with the brightly-lit, jagged compute-pop of Clutch Control. Brittle synth-lines tussle to solicit the clapped-out RnB groove, searing through the clatter with climbing euphoria before collapsing with nowhere left to go.
Produced by Stephen Jarvis between 2004-2013.
