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HEK005: Untold - gonna work out fine e.p. - 12" double pack vinyl - out 2nd November 2009
After a prolific run of releases on Hotflush and Hessle Audio,Untold returns to his spiritual home to serve up two slabs of trademark 'what the f**k?!'
bass music. Taking influences from US house, grime, jungle, techno and a whole load more. Wot u call it? As the tune says: 'Don't Know. Don't Care.'
Tracklist:
Gonna work out fine
Stop what you’re doing
Don’t know. Don’t care
Palamino
No one likes a smart-arse
Never went away
HEK006 - 10" vinyl - out 16th November 2009
Hessle Audio co-owner Pangaea and 2009 newcomer James Blake
deliver two wildly different but utterly sick remixes on a double A-sided 10".
a. Untold - Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix) James Blake proves why he's one of the most exciting and promising new prospects in UK bass music right now. Taking the bare bones of the Untold original and creating a completely new lick, Blake throws in p-funk synths alongside chipmunk gospel vocals that relentlessly swell to an apocalyptic climax.
"The most utterly next level piece of music I've heard in years"
Ben UFO (Hessle Audio).
aa. Untold - I Can't Stop This Feeling (Pangaea Remix)
The Hessle Audio co-owner comes with his hypest, rudest most surprising tune to date. A 140bpm, Chicago-style jackin’ remix of Untold's Hessle Audio release from earlier this year. Raw house stabs, those trademark swung drums and a breakdown that's a lesson in tension and release—the mix just rules the dancefloor.
HEK004 - Out now
Hemlock proudly introduce the debut release for James
Blake; South London producer, keyboardist and live vocalist
for Mount Kimbie (Hot Flush). He comes correct for Hemlock 004 with two
brilliantly off-kilter, blues and funk inflected bombs.
a. James Blake – Air & Lack Thereof The perfect introduction to his very distinct sound.
At once fast and slow, melodic and heavy, and with its
feet rooted firmly in the dance, a. Air & Lack Thereof
is a beautifully wrong and virulently catchy concoction
of razor-sharp beats, bluesy vocal snippets, screaming
p-funk synths and distortion-a-plenty that adds up to
much more than the sum of it’s parts.
b. James Blake – Sparing the Horses
Sparing the Horses goes for a darker, more twisted sonic
palette. Layers of reversed horns, deep morphing subs and
those distinct vocals again, all play over crashing polyrythmic
beats for another unique interpretation of the dubstep sound.
HEK003 - Out now: Limited stocks of vinyl, also available digitally
Following his brilliantly odd and celebrated remix
of Untold’s “Yukon”, Fantastic Mr Fox returns to
Hemlock – along with Rich Reason – for their debut
artist 12”. Pitching up their hip hop roots to dubstep
tempo, the duo present two uniquely soulful, broken,
synth & sub work-outs.
a. FMF & Rich Reason – Plimsoul Essential listening for those who like a little light
amongst the darkness. Glitchy, broken, house beats,
an instantly hummable bassline and unrestrained
synth melodies collide with abstracted vocals and
layered strings to create a piece of pure musical
mischief with a heavy dose of soul.
aa. FMF & Rich Reason – Bleep Show
Coming on like a drunk Timbaland, Bleep Show
lures you into a false sense of security with it’s heavy,
head-nod beats and bass work-out, before suddenly
exploding into a huge, out-of-control arpeggio, filtered
strings and trumpet stabs, that build and build into an
electro inspired 808 freak-out with more than a few
surprises up it’s (rolled up) sleeves.
HEK002 - Out now: Limited stocks of vinyl, also available digitally
Untold is back with two sick tracks for his second release on Hemlock, once again showing the label is not scared to journey into unfamiliar sonic territory
a. Discipline is a dark mash-up of bass and Latin percussion strung together loosely with Untold’s trademark drum programming. An authoritative piece of music.
b. Bones skips along with a killer tambourine break underpinned by angry bass snarls. An infectious ravey synth riff and haunting vocals take the tune in and out of the shadows. Weird, Fun dancefloor material.
HEK001R - Out now: Limited stocks of vinyl, also available digitally
The first in a series of 10” remixes, LV (Hyperdub) and Fantastic Mr Fox (Mercury, Mute) take Untold’s Walk Through Walls & Yukon to new and exiting places.
a. Untold – Yukon – (Fantastic Mr Fox Remix) FMF takes the vocal samples from the original and weaves them into mournfully beautiful lyrics resting on glitchy hip hop beats and piano chords.
aa. Untold – Walk Through Walls (LV remix) LV lend their sublime bass soaked, dubbed out touch to the original. Expect high grade drums, Miami Vice guitar chops, and rig shaking subs.
HEK001 - Released August 08, also available digitally
a. Untold - Yukon
Shuffling two-step drums & a dark sound
palette ride on a killer sub laden morphing
bassline. Ghosts of early jungle and garage
combine to a unique and devastating effect.
b. Untold - Walk Through Walls
Tense, Crackling atmospherics, dissonant
brass and Rhodes phrases are anchored by a
deep bassline and punchy swinging drums.
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