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BURIAL:
BURIAL - HDBCD001 Distribution:
Cargo Records |
This
first album on Kode9’s Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial.
On this self-titled CD debut, Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant
slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell
of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole’s Berlin
crackle dub.
Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep.
Burial’s parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London
underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate
radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the submerged city outside
the window. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks
seem to yearn for drowned lovers. The smouldering desire of ‘Distant
Lights’ is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades
and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance
from Hyperdub’s resident vocalist, the Spaceape unravelling his crypto-biography.
In its loud quietness, Burial takes his kitchen crackle aesthetic neither
from the digital glitch nor merely a nostalgia for vinyl’s materiality.
Instead, as ‘Pirates’ suggests, Burial crackle mutates the tactile
surplus value of pirate radio transmissions. Burial’s mix is haunted.
Echoed voices breeze in and out, on road to another time. Pirate signal from
other frequencies steams in. A tidal wave of noise submerging all but the
crispest syncopations. The noise is not violent, but caressing, tickling,
exciting the ends of your nerves. Seducing you in.
Also available from Burial on Hyperdub
12inch vinyl
HDB001 – Burial – ‘South London Boroughs’/’Southern
Comfort’/’Broken Home’/’Nite Train’