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LDN 071LP
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Escape is the second album from UK don Sully. Featuring grime legends Jamakabi (Roll Deep) and Jendor (Essentials, Organised Grime), it showcases Sully's peerless status across UK bass-driven music, moving though epic soundcscapes, twisted ragga jams, dark two-step, grime, and chopped-up jungle. "With musicm, one of the big motivations for me," explains Sully, "is its potential to push the crap into the background -- to create moments where problems go out the window for a while. That's the drive behind Escape."
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ACRE 061EP
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Sully delivers a plate of austere but bass-heavy Black Acre wrongness. Departing from his junglist output, Sully turns in a distinctly futurist and spacious collection of bangers. "Vamp" is a six-in-the-morning drama piece that explodes into a juked-out binary code rinser. "Arco" features a pure military grime skank with fizzing synths, hectic percussive switch-ups, and Roger Corman's laser cannon. "Bronze" returns to seeming familiar places as the tempo is ratcheted up for an eastern junglist detour full of mystery and deft drum programming.
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LDN 046EP
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2017 repress. Keysound Recordings are excited to announce a jungle double pack from Sully. Four sides of warm vinyl dedicated to classic break-based rollage 'n' choppage: less "where were you in '92?," rather, "who wants more from '94?" One title seems to sum it up best: "Simple Things." This double pack is not a statement about 2014, it is not trying to be a new sound, scene or development. This is just uncomplicated, intensely emotive, rhythmic fun. The EP's raw, chopped-up sounds reflect that feeling: thrown together, reckless, but elevating.
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FRJ 009EP
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This single from UK bass badman Sully finds the versatile producer taking purple synths and twisting them into dizzying contortions. A rude drop roots the track firmly in UK soundsystem culture while a tough stepper's beat drives it forward. Locating a space between 2step's swing, dubstep's edge and breakstep's drums, Sully's productions perfected styles and vibes four or five years before the "future garage" movement. "Toffee Apple" is the perfect sweetener. Super-limited pressing with artwork etching on the flipside.
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LDN 026CD
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Long before -- four of five years before -- the UK garage revival kicked in and "future" garage had even been dreamt up, Sully began finding a space between 2step's swing, dubstep's edge and breakstep's drums, all underpinned by the rude spirit of jungle. He displayed a deft touch for heart-breaking melodies that could touch people as much as the ruff sub-bass could hit them, as evidenced on EPs like Phonebox and Jackman's Rec for the pioneering Frijsfo Beats label. Carrier makes good on Sully's unwritten promise to his long-hopeful fans. It's a short but sweet opus that embraces house, 2step, UK funky, purple synths and juke, with a widescreen, epic vision and Sully's trademark emotive vistas. In fact, so poignant was one cut, "2Hearts," that it was rumored to have been held back for the mythical "lost" Burial DJ Kicks mix. The second half of Carrier sees Sully -- best known for his 2step garage variants -- filter his own take on Chicago footwork, combining eski strings, crunchy 808 claps and ravey piano loops at a tempo last used by jungle, while a hitherto unheard UK funky influence is also revealed on "Encona." Collectively, the album presents a body of work infected by ruffneck pirate culture.
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