Torre presents volume two of the Attack/Decay/Sustain compilation and its an album of the year candidate!
The comp kicks off with Justice ‘Rude Boy Movement’, a track that could accurately be summed up as ‘past meets future’ with a great aesthetic of crunchy analogue sounding breaks, bleeps and rumbling subs.
West Norwood Cassette Library ‘Wanna Rock’ mixes up 4×4 Garage with a bit of Rob Base for a hypnotic call and response chugger for fans of breaks, techno and ukg alike.
Drumskull goes ‘All Out’ with a grimey, acidic thumper with Garage inspired keys and DnB/Bassline squelchy B-lines.
Ekula ‘Frazzeled’ opens with timestretched funky drummer breaks, rippling FX and dark ambience, the intro into heavy Reese bass and psychedelic swirls that will absolutely floor listeners!
Rawtrachs remixes Skin Teeth ‘Marbled Carpet’, amping up the fear factor with weighty breaks and laser like FX that nod to the best Grime instrumentals and gaze at the future of rave influenced breaks.
Breaks and Bass maestro, Pressa contributes ‘Worries!’, a journey of a track from the build up of intricate beat patterns to the echoey synths and rasping bass. File under instant classic.
Kniteforce regular, Amaretto scratches our musical ‘Itch’ with ferocious beats, frenetic booms and teeth shattering hoovers!!!
Obsidian Wave invites us to ‘While Out’ to their rampageous kicks and amens. The heavy drums underpin disquieting melodies, a audio representation of dimly lit UK streets in the middle of the night where violence lurks in the shadows.
Bad Interrupt ‘Already Dead’ (Skin Teeth Remix) see’s the label boss in full darkside mode with blueprint 93/94 adjacent bleeps, vox and FX complete with drops that will disturb your dreams!
The darkside continues with Bobby Lasers ‘Metro’, a terrifying rhythm reminiscent of early Ed Rush or Pascal. Hair curling strings combine with a bit of shadow boxing to drag us kicking and screaming into a place of nightmares, adrenaline, tension and excitement all at once.
Kamiokande ‘A Ripple in the Dirac Sea’ bangs the acid 303s over hammering kicks, hoovers and a think break. A kind of breakbeat driven requiem to NY acid house that prickles with energy!
Lucas ‘City Lights’ evokes a film noir like soundscape with powerful strings, crisp, polished drumbeats that morph into sonorous oldskool rave riffs and seamlessly back into the neon city atmospherics.
Denham Audio ‘Sound Boy Shut Up’ is the kind of musical masterclass we associate with DA, breakbeat science in action, fresh from the Jungle, headed straight for the rave.
Disaffected ‘Upwith’ closes out this classy comp with a euphoric rush of melody and uptempo beats to bring on the rush one more time before you hit rewind and embark on this voyage again and again and again!
Out 18th September 2022
