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Artist:	OM UNIT
Title:	The Timps
Label:	CIVIL (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CIV 019EP

"Om Unit joins the Civil Music stable alongside Starkey, Reso, dEbruit, Drums of Death and Darling Farah. And yet again we see him pushing his sonic manifesto ever further. With years of working intently at the nexus of instrumental beats and electronic music, it's time for The Timps EP. The Timps is real electro. Faceless, percussive, underground with a sci-fi feel. Dark, futuristic and dancefloor-oriented, punctuated with elements of 80s Detroit techno. Om Unit has blasted his sound into deep space, adding eerie electronic futurism to his niche blend of slow boogie, house, techno and hip-hop beats with those classic analogue synth lines. It nods to both the ever exciting and forever morphing instrumental beat scene and to the heavy flow of early pioneering Detroit techno via UR and the likes of Drexciya/Aux 88. The Timps sees Om Unit interfacing funk and futurism. Analogue bass lines are sequenced, arpeggiated and twisted to devastating effect. Synthetic riffs and atonal sound effects with heavy reverbs, delays and phasers drift along with eerie synthetic strings emphasizing the retro futuristic themes of the music. Remixes come from Frite Nites' US beat maker and a one-to-watch in 2011, Salva, and Wagon Repair's Hrdvsion aka Nathan Jonson."

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