ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - Slugabed - [Ramp/Planet Mu/Stuff]
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:38 pm
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[01] - Jamie Vex’d – In System Travel (Planet Mu)
[02] - Slugabed – Ultra Heat Treated (Forthcoming Planet Mu)
[03] - Slugabed – Gritsalt (Ramp)
[04] - Slugabed – Shit Blizzard (Forthcoming Alpha Pup)
[05] - Slugabed – Take Off (Forthcoming Ramp)
[06] - ??? – Muuri (Forthcoming Channel Zero)
[07] - Fly(ing Lotus/amsam?) – Don’t Like The Tree Screw (Dub?)
[08] - Slugabed – Fizzy Drink (Forthcoming Stuff / Numbers)
[09] - Powell – 1234 (Dub?)
[10] - Eprom – Facemelter (Dub?)
[11] - Rustie – Let U Go (Keisha Cole Resmacked)
[12] - Slugabed – Barbara (Forthcoming Stuff / Numbers)
[13] - Slugabed – The System (Forthcoming Stuff / Numbers)
[14] - Diverse – Ain’t Right (Chocolate Industries)
[15] - Puzzleweasel – Quencht (Dub)
[16] - AK – A Soft Touch (Forthcoming Dealmaker)
[17] - Loops Haunt – Forward Ton Cutter (Doesn’t even exist any more Dub)
Slugabed
Recently signed to the genre hopping imprint Planet Mu and with releases in the pipeline on Stuff Records, Slugabed is a musical tyrant to be reckoned with. Imgaine Flying Lotus, Venetian Snares and Hudson Mohawke after a few drinks and the love baby of Slugabed would be born. In fact that isn’t even close!
http://www.myspace.com/slugabedmusic
SLUGABED - Gritsalt / Let’s Go Swimming
Ramp
12″ // £5.99
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DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
Released: May 2009
Catalogue Number: RAMP021
Quickly slipping into the slipstream of excellent upcoming Skweee package on Ramp is the obliquely 8-Bit styles of Slugabed with the followup to his wild edits 12″ on Stuff. It’s quite easy to consider the likes of Slugabed, Taz Buckfaster or even Mark Pritchard as the overseas synthfunk cousins of the Skweee scene, with nuff evidence on this well screwed and ultra compressed 12″s of wrong-funk. ‘Gritsalt’ flips the often super-sweet melodies of Skweee on its head with harshly dischordant but similarly lo-fi compositions over sloth-slow beats, kinda like he’s been drinking domestos mixed with shards of old Ataris instead of neat Vodka, while ‘Lets Go Swimming’ on the flip rubs layers of caustic melodics into a frictional mass driven by hard crunched and gangsta leaning beats. So yeah, there’s similarities, and there’s differences but they’re undeniably both made for tipsy club sessions. Big with fans of Zomby, THE MF Gaslamp Killer, Mike Slott and Rustie.
SLUGABED - Superphreak
Stuff
12″ // £6.49
DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
Released: Apr 2009
Catalogue Number: STUFF00
Stuff records make more big steps in the game with the hotly tipped 19 year old Slugabed crashing in with two groove juxtapositions for the dance. One side tackles the Rick James classic ‘Super Freak’ with odd results, plonking the vocals over a neon freak beat winding in somewhere between Jamie Vex’d style hypeR’n'B and Rustie-knacked hiphop, while the flipside zooms Ol’ Dirty Bastard into a year 2030 style beatwork sounding like Flying Lotus drinking neat vodka with the Skweee crew. His tracks have already found their ways into the boxes of Various Production, Mark Pritchard, Benji B and Mary-Anne Hobbes and we expect to hear a lot more from this fella…
SLUGABED / COCO BRYCE - Myor 02
MYOR
12″ // £7.99
BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / WONKY
Released: Jul 2009
Catalogue Number: MYOR02
All chiptune freakazoids, listen up! Bath based beat mangler Slugabed gets in a face off situation with the very similar sounding Coco Bryce on the second drop from Dutch imprint MYOR, slotting some track-for-track action onto 12″ for all the squashed and squeezy types. Slugabed’s ‘The Moon Zap Jam’ is easily the best track here, coming of like his hero, Flylo, with cosmic rays of Alice Coltrane styled spiritual jazz over a raw-cut and 8-bit kneaded beat. If we hadn’t checked, we’d have easily mistaken Coco Bryce’s ‘Bit Crushing’ to be from the same producer, obsessed with the lo-fi manglement possibilities of the 8-bit style and creating a soundalike hash of pixellated textures and skronky sounds. However, he does manage to stand out on the slightly sinister and baroque sounding ‘Heavy’ on the flip, not a million miles removed from the Skweee style, but with a darker middle European gangsta lean.
