Kuedo – Dream Sequence EP

Jamie Vex’d returns to Planet µ under his latest incarnation as “Kuedo”. Any fans of Mr. Vex’d should know to expect nothing but quality, and quality it is.

Lead track and opener “Starfox” shakes it’s head at the notion of a metronome, allowing the drums to kick about erratically just microseconds off the beat leaving a crooked path for the synths to dance up and down as they please. Take these elements and combine them with sporadic bleeps and bloops and you have a track that sounds like a spiritual successor to Slugabed’s “Ultra Heat Treated EP” (which I’ve also posted about here).

“Shutter Light Girl”, the EP’s lone beatless track follows, only a minute long and washing over us like a light breeze for a moments calm before “Joy Construction”s thick bass kicks in, thumping over funky synth scales and a rhythm of distorted samples in the background.

The EP’s closer, “Glow” shoots unstable bursts of synth over seductive vocals buried low in the mix, filtering in and out of earshot as slow drums knock around lazily before it all comes to a close with distant swirls of effects and filters. The only drawback to the EP is it’s length, barely brushing past the 13-minute mark. But being an EP, it is what it is. Can’t wait for more in this style from Mr. Vex’d!

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Slugabed – Ultra Heat Treated EP

Ultra Heat Treated is Slugabed’s debut EP released on the ever-awesome Planet µ. Right from the go the title track greets us to a distorted bassline and glitchy off-beat drums filtered through Sluga’s technique of heavy compression, shortly followed by sampled vocals and 8-bit bleeps that could easily come off as gimmicky but manage to hold together nicely and not distract from the rest of the song.

“Skyfire” and “Pressure”, (tracks 2 and 3 respectively) follow where the title track leaves off with simple, thumping drums contrasted with spacey synth lines guaranteed to get the head nodding and the mind wandering.

The remaining three tracks take things down a touch – the bass kicks sound less threatening but by no means less powerful and the synths are starting to show some real colour as they entwine and entangle into the drum loops. This is the sound of a great artist finding his feet. This is the sound of Slugabed.

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I’ve moved from blogspot because I was having problems with it and I decided I was being too lazy with my type-ups and such, so here’s to a fresh start and all that eh!

All the old uploads are still about here.

Charles