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PLUS 8118EP
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This four track EP from Ambivalent carefully blends the soul of his American roots with a European propensity for machine music, producing an ever-evolving sonic blueprint that explores some of his most fluid grooves to date. "Jackson" sets out as a rolling tech cut swollen with satisfying sub-bass. On "Train To Brooklyn" the melody is much freer, falling up, down and side-to-side. On "Lear," the beats boom and bash, hustling both each other and the echoing percussive line above.
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MINUS 091EP
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With his Ambivalent alter ego, Kevin McHugh has become a leader in the new school techno underworld. Rumors is cutting edge dance music with a balance of form and function, made to tear the clubs to pieces. The title track is a disorienting vocal number that takes the words and throws them into a warped headspace of paranoia, humor and confusion. "Bumble" takes a quick peek back into previous Ambivalent productions, with a familiar focus on some clever FX work.
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MINUS 079EP
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"Whereas [some] must content themselves with the merely undeniable fact that two times two is four, he rejoices in the irresistible truth to be found, in abbreviated costume, upon the title page of the present volume." --e.e. cummings, from is 5, a collection of 88 poems published in 1926.
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MINUS 056EP
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Cleverly combining black humor with reduced micro-grooves, the title track from Ambivalent's R U OK EP has become one of the most memorable tunes of 2007. It reappears remixed and revamped for a fresh onslaught: Marco Carola offers up two versions of stripped-down metronomic tech-funk, and the "Like It Or Not" mix from Troy Pierce is a murky ride, with a scuttling 6/8 acid bassline that's dark as f**k. The "Kasper is OK" mix keeps the tension at a maximum, the trademark JPLS elastic bass is in full effect, and Tim Xavier and Camea present cool, subliminal fx and jarring claps that resonate into the darkness. R U OK?
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MINUS 049EP
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R.U.OK? R.U.OK? Everyone's been there at one time or another but no one's documented it quite so explicitly as Ambivalent (aka Kevin McHugh) on his first release for Minus.
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