Breaks, bleeps, and bass as Yellow Machines (known for their hybrids of electro, IDM, old hardcore, and jungle) accurately describes—BLE-EP rips through six robust and robotic rhythms catapulting itself into extraterrestrial terrain.
Summarizing the corrosive breaks and bass scene
Breaks, bleeps, and bass as Yellow Machines (known for their hybrids of electro, IDM, old hardcore, and jungle) accurately describes—BLE-EP rips through six robust and robotic rhythms catapulting itself into extraterrestrial terrain. Jerome Hill’s “We Are Not Alone” defines this statement to a tee as label head Jude Greenaway’s ScanOne moniker offers “Visual 8128″—a blistered breaks and old school bleep manifest featuring funky downtempo synth strains that keeps the frequencies clear and morphs into a technoid stomper. The transportive and classic 90s-era techno splurge by Sound Science’s “Energy” does just what you might expect—a drum-infested and nostalgic shift that simply rattles your feet. Mike Ash’s “Galaxy” offers a similar trajectory and yet from another dimensional space—like a slice out of early Detroit via London electronics, this fierce track is a dance floor ready behemoth reminiscent of early Transmat and Network recordings. Hooverian Blur’s “What I Am” busts through with heavier breakbeats, glitchy blips’n bleeps and chopped sirens with an emphasis on hypnotically sandblasted rhythms. Meat Beat Manifesto crashes the party with “Bo Bots,” a deconstructed, ultra-funky and syncopated broken breaks track with sliced’n diced vocal / jungle bits spread across its short three and a half minute runtime—an audio collage that highlights Jack Dangers’ penchant for crunchy beats and rhythmic distortion at its best. BLE-EP is a must-have half dozen collection that summarizes the corrosive breaks and bass scene.
BLE-EP is available on Yellow Machines [Bandcamp]
