Fireworks

Artist:	Shackleton
Titel:	Fireworks
Label:	Honest Jons
Cat-no:	HJP 53
Stil:	Dubstep
Typ:	2X12 inch
Preis:	19 CHF

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***double 12inch*** - Two brilliant new Shackletons, with triumphant remixes by T++ and Baron Mordant.

In Fireworks, the detonations are internalized, swallowed like the Establishment tongue at the start: the mood is malevolent, not celebratory. Synth shrapnel criss-crosses a stately, choral progression, before ticking hi-hats and plate-shifting bass count-down the percussion pressure-drop. Galloping kicks and clopping tabla tussle with each other, in and out of alignment: the kind of ghosted Middle Eastern instrumentation introduced by the Skull Disco classic Hamas Rule, seeping through. Soundsystem psychodrama in inimitable Shackleton style.

For T++, Shackleton's music seems a perfect foil, its fleshy, ultra-vivid drum constructions ripe for demolition and rebuild, and sure enough this mix enacts a kind of rhythmic necromancy, its brittle, emaciated breakbeats shunting forward nastily, ravenously. (Incidentally, perhaps, there is a titular invocation of a much earlier T++ incarnation, buried in the late-90s: the Aussen Vor EP, by Dynamo.)

Likewise, Undeadman raises Deadman. Midi signals from the original were sent to synths, sounds and effects were recorded separately, and rearranged, new ideas came through. The sound-world is enriched, more three-dimensional, the arrangement is looser, more spry, with neat additions and elaborations, notably an impish minor-key piano flourish. Ravishing in its own right, Undeadman is a fascinating indication of where Shackleton's work may go next.

Mordant Music whose eponymous label first introduced Shackleton re-fashions it into a bona fide epic. The side evolves from scouring, bad-trip kosmische into an out-and-out dance wrecker, with a massive punky-reggae-party bassline astride walls of saw-toothed synth noise.

Designed by Will Bankhead, the sleeve dazzlingly layers different Zeke Clough artworks, in spot UV varnish.

Side 1:

- "Fireworks"

Side 2:

- "Fireworks" (T++ Aussen Vor remix)

Side 3:

- "Undeadman"

Side 4:

- "Undeadman" (Mordant Music remix)

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