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A14 005EP
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Four bullets to the head from a shōgun assassin with roots in d'n'b but fast evolving his own custom strain of minimalist sound-murder. "The Centipede" wears its junglism lightly, but is heavy in all other respects: a kind of low-slung, paranoid gangster-techno, ultra-dread and dub-cratered. "Menpo" and "OathKeeper" are just as murky and prickly-palm tense, but stretched and flexed and primed for the dance -- bass-drones flaring up like mardy cobras, beats fashioned from some impossible alloy of bamboo and hanzo-steel --before all shackles are shaken and total blast-off is achieved with "Oni".
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A14 002EP
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Blackest Ever Black sub-label A14 presents its second release. Bristol's Rhythmic Theory opens with "Forgotten Realms," a broken-beat assassinator equal parts dancehall-militant snares and tripped-out soulboy shimmer. Nods to breakstep and dark garage and funk of relatively recent vintage too, but the engineering and arrangement are ruthless, dub-disciplined, wholly contemporary. "Spirits of Duality" explores more paranoid and decelerated junglist tekno territory. The bastard offspring of Reinforced and :zoviet*france:. Vinyl only. One-time pressing of 300 copies, last copies.
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