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GOB 028EP
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Written post-two standout, future-blurring albums for Planet Mu, Parallel Memories (2014) and Devout (2017) Primary Progressive again looks inward to Mitch's own life experiences for inspiration, forming its own, thoughtful counter to the quiet happiness explored in his music over the last four years. Primary Progressive touches on Mitch's father's battle with MS and the varying emotions that come with it as well as an excursion from the sugary, delicate, away-from-the-club tropes Mitch has pushed both via his own productions and from producers like Orlando and Odeko on Gobstopper.
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Rose Tinted Vision Implant sees the Bath-based producer Odeko creating a cutting edge sonic world inspired by "speculative fiction, time/reality shifting stories and dystopian shit." The entire record is structured around, and expands upon his passion for the "future," underpinning the music via an underlining narrative. Rose Tinted Vision Implant starts with "The User" (aka the listener/protagonist depending on your perspective) of the "Optic.Rose" going through the process of getting an implant is made by a mega corporation. Sonically you're there to observe. It opens with a precursory scan ("Anomaly Detection") and moves onto installation ("OpticRose_0_1_Installation") through to a battery change and a recalibration. From this point, the "presence" begins to take over the implant and the tracks verge into a more cerebral range. Odeko notes: "it's a bit of a satire on corporate brands pushing these great products that everyone is obsessed but that are detrimental to both the world, and how we perceive reality. Our relationship with social media and tech could go down a dangerous path if we lose sight of things. I'm going quite far here for the sake of the concept, but things like VR, AR, the want for body tech, mixed with our desire to be connected, emotionally, digitally, physically, wirelessly could lead us to a world where everyone has implants, or some kind of tech built into them." Sonically Rose Tinted Vision Implant is a record that explores a post-IDM, post-grime, post-ambient, post-glitch, post-retro-house, post-instrumental grime take on electronic music. "Boîte Diabolique" features Tom E. Vercetti.
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GOB 024EP
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Orlando is a producer who places emotion at the heart of his output. "My work explores themes of landscape and environment and a constant longing for the unobtainable," he explains. The Tide That Moves Me EP functions around these core threads, with the hopeful, new-age pop of the title-track, the soft, melody-rich dancehall of "Cyaa Done" featuring new-school Jamaican vocalist Nemesis, and the glistening, wistful electronica of "The Smoke Descends". The shimmering "Sensory Deprivation Tank" is a track that comes alive with sporadic drum bursts, giving the EP mettle for the dance.
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GOB 023EP
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Sheffield production prodigy Lloyd SB has long been a secret weapon of the underground instrumental grime scene. Opening to a cacophony of warped snares, the A side swells early on with a glistening soundscape, providing the perfect build thanks to buried mechanized percussion before pushing its rhythmic elements to the forefront. "8ths, 16ths" almost completely removes any trace of melody in favor of unrelenting kicks, twisted snares, and glass shatter sounds. "Princess Anna" is a chaotic blend of 8-bit bursts, rapid-fire arpeggios, and affected cymbals.
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GOB 022EP
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London-based producer and DJ Tarquin returns to Gobstopper Records. "Grease" is a high-tempo example of the genre's more experimental side, using fragmented percussive samples set to a background of pitch-bent chord stabs and twisted melodic elements. Providing as much impact in the track's negative space as in its instrumentation, Tarquin's minimalist approach to production establishes its boldness and makes it a highly recognizable piece of deconstructed club music. As a counterpoint to the abstract starkness of "Grease", the release's flip side "Foxtown" utilizes ominous synths and distorted bass tones to tackle the more upfront sound of first generation grime production.
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GOB 021EP
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Deeply idiosyncratic, Odeko's sound references a variety of themes without ever feeling bound by any and on "Digital Botanics", he takes this bright, one-of-a-kind sound design to new heights. Subtle trap patterns provide the foil for gloopy, toy-like melodies to glide over the top, spiked by short bursts of growling, industrial noise. On "Construct Conduct", Odeko offers his take on euphoric, '80s-inspired synth music - only prepped for the future - with pulsating, heady grooves and spiraling, acid-y melodies nodding to a growing reputation that he is quietly becoming one of the UK's most exciting young sound designers.
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Dublin born audio/visual duo CLU release four track Mood EP. Influences of trance, R&B, videogame and film scores, grime and industrial permeate Cooley's productions, which bubble with multitudes of synths and maintain a focus on bass driven twists. Visually, Freeney engages in a surrealist depth that skips on the brink between digital film and generative animations. This connection between the two forms a symbiotic chemistry that aims to bridge the gap between the white cubed galleries of visual art and the dark basements of electronic music to create soaring galactic oddities.
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GOB 019EP
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A History With Samus is the debut release by rising producer Odeko. A History With Samus''s influences are rooted in 21st century - and beyond - communication and evolution. Fact Magazine profiled Odeko among 10 grime producers to watch in 2016 writing "What we've heard hints at an expansive approach exploring the hidden connections between Rapid at his most lovelorn and electronic experiments by James Blake or Oneohtrix Point Never. He's got a ton of potential to add nuance and shading to the label's emotional grime deconstructions, and the outside influences carry a welcome influx of new ideas."
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GOB 018EP
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Daniel Timms aka Loom follows his 2014 debut EP, Grade (lauded by THUMP, XLR8R, DJ Mag, and The FADER), with European Heartache, further exploring his spacious, romantic take on instrumental grime. "The core theme in my EP is a struggle with identity. What's my identity when society dictates how I should present myself because of my race, sex, religion, sexual preference. . . . when the borders keep changing, when I've been displaced, fled my country because of war, what's my identity when my sex changes? . . . am i just portraying what I think is expected of me?" --Loom
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GOB 017EP
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For anyone with a serious interest in understanding the birth of the instrumental grime scene, Bloom's 2012 track "Quartz" should be the first point of reference. It was arguably the first grime beat of its kind to fully connect with wider listeners, blowing grime's rigid 140-BPM template wide open in the process. The devilish "VIP" version here is littered with slapstick zaps, pulses, and fizzing FX, and a remix from US producer Rabit, who turns a crackly, industrial hand to his rework, a dark, ghoulish interpretation that listens like a natural extension of his work on his Baptizm EP (Tri Angel, 2015).
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GOB 016EP
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"The Man Waits," originally released as part of Mr. Mitch's The Room Where I Belong EP in early 2014, was the first track to exhibit Mitch as a master of emotion; a producer with an ambition to make you feel. Reissued for 2015, "The Man Waits," with its hazy, melancholy, dream-like composition, has now been reimagined by three producers each riding a wave of their own in 2015: Logos, Iglew, and Gage.
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GOB 014EP
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First vinyl release on Gobstopper Records; debut EP from Iglew, who says, "I didn't grow up in a city and there's no underground electronic music scene here. It's only in the last couple of years that I've heard soundsystem music in its intended environment. I'm hyper aware of how effective bass can be because I only really heard it properly recently." The synth flashes and silence in "Sleep Lighter" contrast with the somber tones of "Urban Myth"; the clattering percussion of "Regalia" plays against the enveloping bass of "Cymatism." DJ support from Murlo, Oil Gang, Dark0, Airhead, and Last Japan.
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