Subtropic 'Homebrew' Reflective REF CD6
Yesterday I stopped into the home of most of my disposable income (the local
record store) and Jason, the techno boy said "We got the Subtropic in. It's
weird. Really Weird ..." he trailed off and shook his head.
Now jason likes a lot of the stuff I do, so I was definitely intrigued.
And no, I don't think of it as weird at all. It is drums & bass, but
with a wider palette of interesting sounds than you get with the straight-up
stuff from the UK.
What this disk has, that is missing from a lot of drums & bass, is a real
sense of keeping it funky. Even with the rattatats floating in and out,
there's a real core groove that keeps coming. And the range of timbres
floating in and out are great.
Big thumbs up from me. What drums and bass can be, as it develops and
mutates, is a way to bring the kind of loose rhythmic jamming of the best
jazz drummers, and still be danceable. And be timbrally and harmonically
interesting. Subtropic definitely does the trick ...
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