Netaudio Festival 09, Maria Berlin

Spatial

Spatial appears on Drum’n'Bass & Dubstep Stage (Friday)
Labels: Infrasonics

SpatialEchoes of haunted dancehalls and distant raves in London town…

Sound systems rumble, bugs in bassbins rattle with 50 hurts pounding chest. Primal rhythms and heartbeat pulse lock tight, bodies skanking, ghosts in the machine.

Shards of sound scatter, echo and reverberate into  s p a t i a l  dimension intrusion.

“This year’s clearest trend in dubstep is “future garage”, a technologically-enhanced re-imagining of the sound’s 2-step origins by Martyn, 2562, Ramadanman & co. On his debut productions, Londoner  s p a t i a l  could have risked simply reworking this new formula: the microhouse clicks, Basic Channel washes and clean subs are certainly present and correct. However his understanding of original UK garage’s clipped shuffle, snappy woodblock hits and compressed emotion goes way beyond pastiche, and the incorporation of older rave elements like “80723”‘s Detroit strings and riffs and “80207”‘s contrast between cushioning alto vocal samples and sharp stabs creates a distinctive sound world. Most of all, though, it’s the expert manipulation of space to give a sense of buoyancy, of loosened gravity, that make stepping inside these four tracks so inviting. ”

Joe Muggs (Wire Magazine)

Infrasonics present infra001 by spatial, a 10” vinyl dub distributed by Cargo accompanied by creative commons tracks from http://infrasonics.net/


Listen to Track spatial-80723-1 + Visit Soundcloud of netaudioberlin

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