No Pain In Pop

Tonight

Friend actioning at the Lock Tavern, free from 8pm ’til 1am.

8pm - 9pm Sampha w/Young Turks
9pm - 10.30pm - Mount Kimbie w/James Blake
10.30pm - 11.30pm - Jamie xx
11.30pm - 1am - Sbtrkt

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Infiltrating The Bedroom Club

Latest column for Drowned in Sound - original link here, read in full after the fold.

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Sweat

We’ve been admirers of London’s anonymous Sbtrkt for a while now at No Pain In Pop and that love’s shared by the gaggle of labels - the best labels - hurling offers in his general direction. Confirmed releases come through Planet Mu, Salvia/XL, Brainmath and Universal soon enough, for now though the time’s right for a mix, all sun coloured synth swirls and dazed, reeling eyes, heat rashed and raw. “Seems there are quite a few producers using those UKG influences,” Sbtrkt noted recently, “taking the bounce, extra double-time rhythms and not being too dark & serious about everything.” His mix carries the work of Burial and Radiohead in a cluster of new Sbtrkt tracks, but things never get too dark, too serious - and if they do, MJ Cole’s always on hand to bail you out.



MP3: Sbtrkt - NPIP001

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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)

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