And we’re still dancing…
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Micha Cavaseno: As ever elusive, Burial re-emerges on a “secret” white label via one of the top 5 UK dance labels of the past decade, Keysound (where he’d once remixed label-head Blackdown’s “Crackle Blues” long before the Burial Boom occurred). Its a new age for Burial, as his scratchy takes on the Ghost-era El-B drums are now properly engineered and lack their former “pop” but demonstrate the almost Madlibbian ADD-riddled switch-ups now frequent in Burial releases. “Temple Sleeper” sounds not like the olden days of even proto-dubstep, but rather a moody tech-Speed Garage sound, before switching up into a rude 4Hero esque ‘ardkore slapper that belies the ghostly and evanescent qualities of so much of his work, then slips again into a fluorescent skipper, sounding more like broken beat with Terry Riley slabbed upon it. One wonders if Burial will ever return to album lengths, or is rather content with turning each tiny sliver of physical release into transmitted glimpses at the way he has learned to stretch his style far beyond his dark garage days.
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Will Adams: “We’re about to go to another dimension,” chirps the sample as we enter the sixth minute, as if the preceding worn-down beats hadn’t already sedated us.
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Alfred Soto: Schlockier and faster than recent Burial and hence a surprise, with breakbeat and ’90s techno flourishes, complete with doomy sampled male voice. How’s that for chasing moneylenders out of the temple?
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Ian Mathers: Starts of sounding kind of like the trance records we used to listen to in high school played back through a shitty old boombox with some extra samples layered in. That’s not really a complaint, but if you’re thinking it indicates that this isn’t as impressive as some Burial tracks, you would be right.
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Brad Shoup: How cool would it be to check out on Burial for a really long time and when you check back in it’s some really rococo nonsense, like Pure Moods II-core with tacky rain SFX covering everything, maybe Mortal Kombat samples and dank-ass Big Beat vocal fuckery? Well, we’re 80% there!!!
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Josh Langhoff: Good to have a hobby.
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