Artist: Overcast Radio
Title: Midnight Sun / Vendetta
Format: 12" Vinyl / Digital
Cat #: STNSN002
Release Date: OUT NOW 12"/ DIGITAL FORMATS.
Distribution: Z-Audio
Mastering@ Finyl Tweek
A. Midnight Sun
B. Vendetta
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With their second release, Surface Tension has chosen an artist closer to home, and one with a unique take on a distinctly American jazz sound. Brooklyn's Overcast Radio (Chris Jones), an accomplished musician and sound designer of film and television, brings us two killer slices of jazzy, dubbed-out bass music, tinged with horns and guitars and a deep film noir vibe.
"Midnight Sun" is a meditative exercise in melody and space. From the first note of the trumpet, you know this is something different. Add in guitar lick echoes and the 'verbed out washes of sound floating in and out of the mix, and you have a simple but gorgeous combination. When the pulsing bass hits, the listener is transported to a world of rainy late night streets and Sam Spade detective scenarios. If ever a dubstep tune should have been a movie soundtrack, this is the one.
Once again setting it off right with saxophone licks and the classic sounds of a Rhodes piano, "Vendetta" hits squarely on the dancefloor when the bass thumps its way to the fore. Again, Jones melds the swing and depth of jazz, with basement level bass, for a tasty look into the wide open spaces that the still young dubstep genre invites those with vision to fill.
Sonic Router wrote:If Burial is the sound of South London by night bus, then Overcast Radio is the modern sound of the neon-lit streets of Scorsese’s Brooklyn by yellow cab – think Skalpel re-scoring Taxi Driver for Tectonic."
Overcast Radio's tunes have received radio play and support from Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 1), Joe Nice(Gourmet Beats/Dubwar), Bunzero(Sub.FM, Incyde (Hotflush/Dubwar/Sub.FM), Dave Q(Dubwar OG Badman) and numerous others worldwide.Boomkat wrote:Two tastefully reflective and mellow dubstep tracks from Overcast Radio. 'Midnight Sun' blends Michael Leonhart's trumpet with techy dubstep rhythms and blue atmospherics, while 'Vendetta' on the flip adds Daniel Carter's saxophone to guitar and rhodes from Chris Jones for a proper chillout moment.
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More audio/info available at:
http://www.myspace.com/surfacetensionrecordings
http://www.myspace.com/overcastradio
http://blog.surfacetensionrecs.com
