A very brief EP review this time. I don't often do record reviews for Nutshaft, but this time there weren't any gigs to speak of worth reviwing. I'm doing a single track review this month, for similar reasons, so expect a micro-post.
GIVE ME MONACO – LUMINANCE EP (Emseatee Records)
The artist states that this is the second of a pair of
EPs “centred around destructive and regenerative elements within nature”, but
like all good house and associated genres, it sounds like shiny unnatural
machines being corralled by a sensitive human mind – lucky, really, because the
water cycle is doubtless very cool, but you can’t really dance to it. You’ll
have no trouble flexing a boogie muscle to ‘Basalt’, which pits a classic
constantly tweaked acid-trance riff against some bright melodic figures that
might have leapfrogged straight from an old Yellow Magic Orchestra album,
whilst a breathy vocal fragment threatens to morph into A Guy Called Gerald’s
‘Voodoo Ray’. On the other hand,
‘Caldera’ – yes, all the tracks are connected with volcanic geology – has a
sleeker rhythm with a likembe loop and disconnected vocal phonemes that might
remind Thames Valley ravers of the much mourned Coloureds. If ‘Lahar’ and
‘Magma’ are possibly a little less memorable, the four-tracker as a whole is
packed with warm bounce. As ingenious as it is igneous.
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