With this highly anticipated EP, Yellow Machines raises the bar; locking down some of the best producers in the experimental electronic field and easily becomes a contender for best EP of 2024.
Analog machine funk
Jude Greenaway (aka ScanOne) of Yellow Machines continues to deliver hi-quality audio works, and BLE-EP3 is no exception—a potent addition to the BLE-EP series. ScanOne, Mani Festo, and Jerome Hill close out with saturated dance-friendly beat workouts, while Unique 3 gets the remix treatment by Autechre with an opening track of mechanical old-school techno extrusions. Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes reunite as Man From Mantis for their industrial break’n bleep beats, and Two Lone Swordsmen fits snug in the middle with sandblasted Sci-Fi electronics featuring none other than Tipper.
Each track builds around a base of analog machine funk, old school electro-nics, and deep panoramic breaks. Targeting the early to mid-1990s rave scene, Kraftwerk vs. Drexciya rhythms are in constant focus where brittle blips and bleeps dance around jagged acid lines and technoid spheres. Raw vocoders, synth swells, and powerful bass lines ricochet from warped wood slat warehouse floors.
With this highly anticipated EP, Yellow Machines raises the bar; locking down some of the best producers in the experimental electronic field and easily becomes a contender for best EP of 2024.
BLE-EP3 is available on Yellow Machines. [Bandcamp]
