No Pain In Pop

Trailin U

This anonymity of Sbtrkt’s is deft - ravenous for some kind of ID, the mental blanks where face and name should be are filled instead with the vague, twilight greens clubland tosses out onto the nearest pavement, or the mangled and maudlin features of those half-remembered from yesteryear raving. In namelessness the barrier between him and the music is removed, until Sbtrkt is the predatory, queasy, proto-Hazyville bass rapidly gaining on itchy percussion that seems to jitter and splash across the mid-range, terrified, no doubt, by the cold eyes on such an adamant, iron-willed dub. Breaking up occasionally into the bliss of blameless panic attacks, this cut edit of ‘Rundown’ gradually finds harmony between the two, steppa’ chug catching up with delirious house breaks, the two entwined in dramatic sparring while ‘Digidesign’ sound swarms beleaguer throughout.

Already played out by Alexander Nut at Rinse, Sinden at Kiss and Blackdown at El-B’s Plastic People re-launch, Sbtrkt’s attracted words from the learned heads at FACT, too - his releases to come this year (EPs through Salvia and Zomby’s Brainmath imprint) are gathering much anticipation.



MP3: Sbtrkt - Rundown (Edit)

Tags: brainmath, salvia, sbtrkt