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SGNLF 009EP
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Immortality EP is Signal Life lynchpin Desto's first outing in over three years. The EP is founded on the stark aesthetics of footwork paired with Desto's signature pitch-dark brooding melodies. "Flames" and the title track expand furthest from the footwork realm towards a wider field of electronic music. "Pulse Cathedral" continues the percussive explosions of footwork with staggering syncopation. The fully Chicago drum programming and the apparent lack of jungle breaks (albeit a clear presence of jungle feel) combines the energy of both genres without falling victim to cheap imitations.
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RWINA 002LP
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After five years of releasing EPs and singles across a raft of labels including Argon, Ramp, and his own Signal Life, Finnish producer Desto returns to Rwina to deliver his first full-length album, Emptier Streets. As with his previous releases on the Dutch label, Desto strips the music back to its bare-bones essentials, fulfilling the album's title with a sound that's spacious and eerie, bleak and punishing, yet still offers warmth in its apparent coldness. Stylistically, the album is most obviously aligned with the aesthetics of Dirty South hip-hop and the dubstep diaspora, deploying booming drums, rolling hats, cold synthetic melodies, and voices inside cavernous sonic landscapes. You can feel a cinematic quality on "Dislocated City," where a simple interplay between pitched kick drums and modulated melodies is all it takes to create a hypnotic vibe. The title-track features a rare use of vocals, stuttered and effected into something alien, set against icy melodies on a solid bed of bass kicks and syncopated snares. "Glottal Stops" plays with a slightly disturbing melody made of guttural sounds over a relentless kick assault while "4 A.M." starts old school before switching into one of the album's most anthemic productions. "Drainpipe" shows off Desto's ability to pull emotions from the listener even without any drums, winding things down before "Healing" closes the album with one last energetic run through the city. Emptier Streets takes the sound Desto has been building for the past few years to its logical conclusion.
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RWINA 017EP
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From the ice-cold landscapes of his secret lair in Finland, Desto returns to Rwina for another EP of forward-thinking dancefloor music. The producer's work on No Sleep picks up where he left off previously on Rwina: deep sub-pressure in the finest south London tradition blended with sounds and patterns that take their cues from across the spectrum of bass-influenced music such as grime's colorful melodies or the rhythmic playfulness and sonic claustrophobia of the likes of Lex Luger.
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RAMP 027EP
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"Meet Desto. We found him wandering the streets of Helsinki, eating canned tuna and drinking the water from a tin of hot dogs, desperately clutching armfuls of sticky future garage. Starting off in spacey 2-step rhythms, falling over bassline, and breaking down into a euphoric 8-bit cascade, the epic 'Disappearing Reappearing Ink' finally reaches wax after being in the boxes of pretty much everybody all year. On the flip, 'Broken Memory' was given its first exclusive airing by Oneman on Radio 1 to much acclaim, and takes more of a straight up approach, and retains all of the fluid C64 chip-tune beauty. DJ support from Rob Da Bank, Oneman, Brackles, Sinden, Floating Points, Clouds, and Mary Anne Hobbs."
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