(03.15.05) The beauty of 7″ releases is that they don’t allow for much throw away
material. An artist has one track, maybe two, in which to snare your
fancy. Beats are massive, rhythms are in your face, and the funk is
immediate. Projector Records enters the vinyl area with a two-tracker
by Noakes Pressure and DLF, each contributing a slice of broken,
bass-driven funk. The bass rhythm of Noakes Pressure’s “Rhyme More”
prowls about the room, gathering tiny melodic elements in its wide dub
echo with each circuit. Eventually the groaning construct gathers
some voices, a liquid conversation about what makes for good hip-hop
that is shattered and cut-up into a verse chorus verse structure and
then welded tight to the rollicking beat. DLF’s “5 Bar Funk” spasms
with lo-fi funk like Techno Animal being pushed through twelve dollar
Radio Shack speakers, the grit and filth of the heavy sonics
overwhelming a delicate tracery of strings that valiantly tries to get
off the ground. Without much success as the gritty funky keeps
everything locked to the land, sending reverberations through the
bedrock.
This is a sample, just enough to jump-start your appetite, and I found
myself shaking the record in case there was more hiding in the unused
vinyl in the middle. A good single, the Rhyme More/5 Bar Funk 7″
slithers beneath the floor and rattles your foundations.
The Rhyme More/5 Bar Funk 7″ is out now on Projector Records.
