New bass vinyl from Loraine James, K Wata, Coido/Oddkut/Nattah/Naprimer, Natsumi Hirota & more...

 

 

 

 

 

Loraine James calls Detached From The Rest Of You her "IDM popstar album," and the description is both self-deprecating and precisely accurate. Forged during a period of internal struggles around confidence fraying and a desire for change taking shape, it finds her stripping production back to the bone: clicks, glitches, sparse keyboard chords and the negative space between sounds, drawing on Aoki Takamasa, Ryoji Ikeda and the clicks-and-cuts era of early 2000s electronic music. The shift from club-driven sounds into more precise song forms finds her voice pushed higher in the mix than ever before. Lead single 'In A Rut' is a duet with Sydney Spann and sums up the album perfectly.

 

 

 

 

United by a deep affinity for sub frequencies, long-going bass stable Judder open a new chapter with their first V/A of a projected series, calling in local faces Coido, Oddkut, Nattah and Naprimer for a wicked foray into all things both danceable and out-there. The spirit of broken beat is strong with this one, as carnivalesque beats and breaks collide on the toothy 'Phase Shift' and 'Komo', high-energy A-siders of choice. A dark garage upswing presides on Nattah's 'Diligence', a rahter tricky tonal shift before Naprimer's 'Carrera' careens towards shocking downtempo paces, the sole rep of a new Bristol-Manchester sonic axis running hot at 100BPM.

 

 

 

 

Short Span's eleventh and weightiest release so far, and their first double LP: the debut album from K Wata, a New York producer who's been placing carefully on Anno and City-2 St Giga, and noted for his production contrubtions to Yaeji's With a Hammer and Daytimers collaborative moves. Several of the tracks here were first deployed live before being pulled back and finished in the studio, with drum programming carrying the slow-motion memory of Memphis and Houston trap, but only somewhat tangentially; you wouldn't know it from first listens alone. Vocals from SG on the title track, and 'Go', lend the record an extra layer of filtered heartbreak - "I gotta go" - to the overall sense of shuffly, backroomsy frisson.

 

 

 

 

Natsumi Hirota

 

Timelogue

 

Second Born

 

 

 

 

 

Bobby Ingham

 

Angel Of The North

 

Sneaker Social Club

 

 

 

Cheb Runner

 

80K

 

Beat Machine Italy

 

 

 

Various

 

Threenity

 

Bassmaessage

 

 

 

 

 

Silas & Snare

 

Biometric EP

 

Kaizen

 

 

 

Simo Cell / Abdullah Miniawy

 

Dying Is The Internet

 

Dekmantel Holland

 

 

 

Zomby

 

Ultra

 

Hyperdub