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TEC 106EP
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The sound of sheet metal, ripping slowly, suspended in low gravity. Screaming in slow motion, claustrophobic and encapsulated. This is the result of Nino Pedone's reworking of Mumdance & Logos' dancefloor deep heaters "Chaos Engine" and "Cold", taken from the 2015 LP Proto, also released on Tectonic (TEC 082LP). No beats, pure drama. Each of Shapednoise's versions pull the original tracks deep into a chasm of crushing reverbs and grinding atmospherics.
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TEC 097EP
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Perc & Truss rework two key cuts from Mumdance & Logos' debut album Proto (TEC 019CD/TEC 082LP, 2015) and deliver a pair of hard-as-nails techno bangers. "Move Your Body" is mutated from the hardcore-referencing original into a searing industrial belter. Perc & Truss' version makes use of distorted 808 drums and rising machine noise to ramp up the tension before eventually dropping out to the vocal sample and unleashing a terrorizing acid line. "Hall Of Mirrors" sees the pair re-route Mumdance & Logos' original into a 4/4 roller, peppered with metallic percussive hits and a robotic bass riff.
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DIFFLP 001CD
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Mumdance and Logos present a special 21-track DJ mix of exclusive new music, dubplates and tracks from the Different Circles stable - including 13 unreleased tracks. Mumdance and Logos survey a path through the Different Circles catalog guided by a shared love of UK rave music and its hidden echoes and tributaries. Spanning acousmatic sound design, from Shapednoise and Fis, to hollowed-out dancefloor abstractions, from Airhead, and weightless devil mixes, from Boylan and Rabit, and tracks from Mumdance and Logos as well. Different Circles launched in 2014 with the scene-defining EP Weightless Volume 1 which to wide acclaim re-contextualized grime through the lens of ambient and noise music. Vinyl-only plates from Logos (2015's Glass EP), Rabit and Strict Face (2015's Tearz/Into Stone) and Airhead's Kazzt (DIFF 004EP, 2016). The mix also features: Strict Face, Inkke, DJ Sinclair, RPG, Yamaneko and Sharp Veins. This first CD release for Different Circles comes as a digipak.
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TEC 082LP
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TEC 019CD
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Mumdance and Logos present Proto, a collection of future-facing club tracks that, against the odds, also provides a deep and involving experience for the listener. Proto focuses on the very brief sparks of innovation when new scenes were just forming and genre rules and paradigms were still gray areas; the early bleep track days when imported American techno was starting to be appropriated by the UK, the '93-'94 proto era when hardcore was morphing into jungle and later, when the darker sound of tech-step reared its mechanical, dystopian head. All of this is underpinned with "Wot Do U Call It?" grime sensibilities and Mumdance and Logos's trademark sonic disorientation. Mumdance and Logos concentrate on taking the moods and colors created by these leaps forward in sound and twisting them into something new, keeping in line with the futuristic visions of the originators. Both producers had a banner 2014, launching their label Different Circles and spearheading a movement of what Logos calls "spatially untethered club trax," dubbed "weightless" by the duo. Mumdance took up a residency on Rinse FM; went B2B with Tectonic founder Pinch on their acclaimed mix release (TEC 018CD), about which Resident Advisor claimed "no one else is putting music together quite like this" in a 4.0/5 review; and was selected to perform at the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo. Logos, aside from appearing with the Boxed crew across London, had his track "Metropolis" lead off the compilation Keysound Recordings Presents... Certified Connections (LDN 050CD/LP). Not to mention that FACT named Mumdance's Twists and Turns (2013) as number 31 and Logos's Cold Mission (LDN 042CD/LP, 2013) as number 27 in its "100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far" list.
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TEC 075EP
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Mumdance & Logos have managed to merge elements of UK hardcore-jungle, pounding, mesmerizing techno, gut-wrenching grime and paranoid dubstep into the dancefloor beast that is "Legion." Rising panic is struck immediately from the dissonant strings that lead you into the rhythm, before luring you into an ambush in the form of a pounding, relentless, weighted kick pattern. "Proto" continues the old-skool jungle vibes at 128 BPM. The intro charges up with a muted 4/4 kick pattern, and a demented Hoover sample, getting progressively more aggressive as it develops. Then comes the rush of broken breakbeats and 808s, cutting forwards and backwards. 100% killer.
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LDN 041EP
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Going both forwards and backwards comes naturally to production duo Mumdance & Logos, as demonstrated by the EP's lead cut "In Reverse PIV." This track dares to go in two directions at once: synths and bass heading forwards, vocals and drums in, well, reverse. The result is shocking: with its glowing lava-like synths, cavernous Reese bass, caustic second drop and rhythmic vortices, it's genuinely unclear what exactly "In Reverse PIV" is. The rest of the Genesis EP is similarly headstrong. "Turrican 2" finds the gap between 909 funk and 8bar grime in a 130 bpm context. "Wut It Do (12" mix)" has jungle's rhythmic chaos, dubstep's bass pressure and Baltimore club's-nagging vocal infectiousness. Finally "Truth," a collaboration between Mumdance and Mao, brings an emotional end, '92 warehouse rave-style.
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