A bouncy, rolling batch of minimal house tracks with a somewhat understated feel. It’s solid though, infectious and persistent, like a puppy needing a walk.
I have to admit—Crump (aka Alex Crump)—is a producer that I’ve not come across before. He’s a Bristol lad with a bit of form and has just had his EP entitled Chiaroscuro released on Slime Recordings. It’s a bouncy, rolling batch of minimal house tracks with a somewhat understated feel. It’s solid though, infectious and persistent, like a puppy needing a walk.
There seems to be a unified movement at the moment away from the gut wrenching bowel twistings of the Skrillex end of the bass spectrum, towards a subtler more sophisticated approach. 4/4 beats are enjoying a resurgence (not that they ever went away), and looking back to the recent history of dance music for influence is becoming a widely accepted thing to do, as indeed it should be. This release definitely has some echoes from the past reverberating throughout its finely produced beats, but in a good way. It’s a subtle grower, the more you listen to it, the more you hear. The highlight of the bunch shows up as “Upstream,” a synth pad washed restrained house bouncer with techno ambitions. A little snapshot of the current Bristol beat sensibility. Nice work.
Chiaroscuro is available on Slime. Buy at Juno.
