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Echoes of haunted dancehalls and distant raves in London town...
"This year's clearest trend in dubstep is "future garage", a technologically-enhanced re-imagining of the sound's 2-step origins by
Martyn,
2562,
Ramadanman & co. On his debut productions, Londoner s p a t i a l could have risked simply reworking this new formula: the microhouse clicks,
Basic Channel washes and clean subs are certainly present and correct. However his understanding of original UK garage's clipped shuffle, snappy woodblock hits and compressed emotion goes way beyond pastiche, and the incorporation of older rave elements like "80723"'s Detroit strings and riffs and "80207"'s contrast between cushioning alto vocal samples and sharp stabs creates a distinctive sound world. Most of all, though, it's the expert manipulation of space to give a sense of buoyancy, of loosened gravity, that make stepping inside these four tracks so inviting. " - Joe Muggs (Wire Magazine)
Infrasonics present infra001 by spatial, a 10'' vinyl dub distributed by
Cargo accompanied by creative commons tracks from
infrasonics.net
Release date: late December '08 / early Jan '09.
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