London Modular Alliance adopt their own skittering off-kilter garage/2-step style rhythms amidst a wash of eerie electro-adjacent synths and a pastiche of gritty grime sampling.
A wash of eerie electro-adjacent synths and a pastiche of gritty grime sampling
Appearing on my radar a few years ago, London Modular Alliance—Gavin Pykerman, Phil Ventre & Simon Lynch—have trickled out a series of evolving, highly polished EP’s over that time. Each release seems to bring another subtle evolution in the complexity of their sound. To me these are thoroughly modern tracks which skip past the nonsense EDM dubstep drop phenomena of bassline warfare, and instead adopt their own skittering off-kilter garage/2-step style rhythms amidst a wash of eerie electro-adjacent synths and a pastiche of gritty grime sampling. There is an authenticity in the lineage displayed in these tracks, something that sounds deeply London and thoroughly connected to the 90s rave scene—but unlike its evolutionary predecessors these tracks are produced with a cutting edge sharpness and sonic depth.
Cracked Dice is available on Central Processing Unit April 30, 2021. [Bandcamp]
