Blue Daisy – Spinning Channels (feat. Anneka)
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I’ve written at greater length about whether trip-hop is sex music. Some Bristol beat-makers reacted strongly against being relegated to soundtrack, and it’s clear that Geoff Barrow’s spiraled ever further away from comforting sensuality. But it’s easy to forget that the music had a goal that wasn’t divorced from the carnal—a search for new rhythms, new ways for forms to collide.
Dubstep spawned from the same urge: bend the beat but keep it danceable. And as a retreat from the loudness wars, some forward-thinking producers have gone another route and removed the beat almost entirely. It makes sense; absence clears out new space to build again. I had a lot of high hopes for Camden producer Blue Daisy after he dropped the dense datashuffle of his 2009 single, “Space Ex” (see below.) But with his upcoming full-length, The Sunday Gift, it’s clear that he’s following latter-day Massive Attack in soundtracking middle-of-the-road film atmosphere rather than carving a new path for his pulse. Still, there’s the occasional standout, as with “Spinning Channels,” which taps into Pantha du Prince’s alluvial stream of bits and bytes.
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Blue Daisy – Space Ex (feat. Lanote) [download] [buy]
Blue Daisy – Spinning Channels (feat. Anneka) [download] [buy]
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