Madness EP is a delicious treat for breakcore jungle aficionados, whereas Leftovers features a bonus varied genre compilation featuring IDM original tracks plus glitch hop and (additional) breakcore remixes.
A delicious treat for breakcore jungle aficionados
The Junglechrist :: Madness EP — French producer Julien (aka Stazma) attacks again, but now only under The Junglechrist moniker. Madness EP is a delicious treat for breakcore jungle aficionados. The release contains three original tracks and two remixes with lots of options to burst out anyone’s inner lunacy.
The title track is a rich ever-changing tune, with lots of drills, effects, dub echoes, ragga vox, a total trip back to 1996 featuring madness drops resembling AFX and Squarepusher during their drill ’n bass phases. The second track, “PolyG,” keeps the energy high, but adds synth timbres that move you to a more retro-futuristic ambience. “Walking Up My Girlfriend,” raises the roof to complete the original set with a mind-blowing frenetic feel. It’s impossible not to find at least a part of your body nodding involuntarily to this tune.
Ronin’s remix for “Madness” reviews the original’s cadence by proposing not only a hardstepper sense but a more constant 4×4 approach to the EBM-like beat in certain parts. Amousement’s remix proposes another view to “Walking Up My Girlfriend,” adding under-layers of reverbing crescendo dissonant pads that freshen up the experience. Although the remixes were made by different artists, both seem to converge in creating fewer changing parts to let the tracks take a breath from the craziness purged by The Junglechrist.
Madness is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp | Vinyl campaign]
Stazma :: Leftovers EP — And, as a support for the vinyl campaign of the Madness, Julien also released Leftovers as Stazma, a bonus varied genre compilation featuring IDM original tracks plus glitch hop and breakcore remixes of Clipping, Petbrick (recent duo project of Igor Cavalera from Brazilian seminal thrash metal band Sepultura) and Pogo Car Crash Control. Quality is an attribute embedded in this release and the peak point is reached in the original tracks. “Pinball Trauma” rocks basslines with no fear while “YoctoBot” brings an analog/acid flavor to the table and “October Mantis’” beautiful melodies and sound choices show how broad Julien’s musical knowledge is and how much attention he gives to the details of sound.
Leftovers is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
