No Pain In Pop

Sling It

Another name for your young beat collective: London’s Arthur Cayzer, AKA Pariah, whose tracks glide with a rare poise. ‘Detroit Falls’ confuses soulful Dilla bomp’n'clap with haunting dubplate textures and house roll to authoritative and addictive effect, while ‘Don’t Go’ is a crystal-eyed 2-step meditative for Cayzer’s beloved night bus. ‘Jelly Baby’ is different - all sloppy synths flaring up around your jowls, an itching, wobbling thing that fruits around amid the safety of hench bass-weight.

There’s something incredibly exciting about all this whateveritis - this constant spooling, globular mutation taking place out on the electronic hinterlands. And whateveritis wasn’t supposed to sound like a medical condition, but maybe that’s the best way to see it; as something gone awry in medicated minds, something lost or just absorbed differently in the initial awe at heroes like Dilla, MJ Cole, Parrish and Burial and the defect gets hammered out over and over again until it takes on traits of its own for others to see and send skewiff. We are all ears cupped and tilted at odd angles.

Anyway, Joy Orbison, 141, FaltyDL, sbtrkt, Floating Points and now, Pariah - heaven is a Zone 2 house party with this loose troop. Sling it, all summer.



MP3: Pariah - Detroit Falls (Mixdown)



MP3: Pariah - Don’t Go (Unmastered Demo)



MP3: Pariah - Jelly Baby (Demo)

Tags: arthur cayzer, pariah