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BH 062EP
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"The third part of our 'Ode To The Soundsystem' is here and the abstract sound of the last Ossia album is no longer evident. The influence of the early Disciples 12"s shows up for the first time, with a Drexciyan connection happening on the b-side, creating one of the most lethal and militant 12"s that we have ever released. Ossia is back on Berceuse Heroique and we are very happy about it."
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BLACKEST 075LP
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Heavy-weather, beyond-good-and-evil sound system poetics, channeling raw and rootical techno, isolationist abstraction, and dub at its most turbulent and raw-nerved and space-time-warping. New worlds ahead... Equal parts tuff, tail-thrashing dancehall pressure -- see "Hell Dub" -- and art-of-darkness ambience and introspection, culminating in the slow-burning, third-eye-opening 23-minute dream weapon, "Vertigo". Part of the Young Echo crew, Ossia embodies the best tradition of Bristol underground music in that he doesn't pay much mind to tradition, just does his own thing. Yes, Devil's Dance shares DNA with those sullen masterpieces that will always be associated with the city, from blunted '90s street-soul/hip-hop to sub-loaded dubstep -- but like his forebears Ossia is ultimately a mongrel breed, drawing from his own, very contemporary and idiosyncratic well of influences: grime, jazz, steppers, dub, post-punk, and industrial abrasion, concrète minimalism... Devil's Dance could easily be not just a forbidding, but a suffocating proposition. But even at its most angst-ridden it feels lithe and aerodynamic, its darker impulses both intensified, and offset, by a pure soundboy's delight in detail and color and higher dancefloor mechanics. The music pulses with energy, a fever to communicate... and Raki Singh (violin), Jasmine (vocals), and Ollie Moore (saxophone) add vivid flesh-tone to the punishing, plasmic electronics. The record was mixed at an infamous, subterranean Bristolian recording studio, using an arsenal of spring and plate reverbs, modded pedals, tape-delays, and compressors: systems of black magic crucial to the album's intense presence and physicality and carefully modulated dread. In the end, what you're witnessing, and experiencing vicariously, is a purging, an exorcism: find the devil, dance with the devil... and then chase, chase, chase him out of the earth.
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BH 041EP
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"This is a strictly Bristol affair. Ossia comes back after his last deep and spiritual journey for Berceuse Heroique and this time he is vexed. He cooked this tasty stew of hardcore, grime and dancehall and it bangs like a motherfucker. African Head Charge on bloody steroids bruv. On the b-side, one of our favourite producers the last few years, badman Lurka took this mission to harness the wild style of Ossia and let me tell you something, this mercenary doesn't fuck around. Heavy electro vibes with the precision of Photek when he was gracing us with tunes like 'Ni Tien Itch Ryu'. Scorched Earth Policy with this one"
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BH 033EP
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"Dan Davies aka Ossia is a mainstay of the Bristol scene. He runs labels like Fuck Punk, No Corner and Peng Sound, and he's a member of Young Echo. His Blackest Ever Black debut triumphantly grafted the industrial experimentalism of Richard H Kirk onto West Country bass culture. This, his second Berceuse Heroique, goes deepest yet; pithier but more widescreen, with fresh touches of jungle and bashment to its dread spirituality. The dubs in particular are a bleak treat. Spiffily presented 180g vinyl, with a natty poster designed by Alex Digard, from the Tape Echo crew."
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BLACKEST 046EP
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Ossia (Young Echo member, operates Rewind Forward, Peng! Sound, No Corner, Hotline Recordings) debuts with "Red X," inspired by Peter Tosh's diary recordings in which he documented his dissatisfaction and mistrust in the run-up to his shocking murder in '87. The track brilliantly bridges dubwise, isolationist electronics and modern soundsystem dynamics. "Blood & Ice (Version)" was coaxed out of a dubplate of "Ice & Blood" and the crackly runout groove of Tosh's Bombo Klaat 7" shot through '70s Copicat tape-delay and an array of effects. Vinyl-only edition of 500 housed in beautiful screenprinted sleeve designed by Studio Tape-Echo. Last copies...
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