Shackleton - Fireworks - Aussen Vor - Undeadman - Mordant - Dubstep- 2 x 12 - EP
2x12"

Shackleton – Fireworks - Aussen Vor - Undeadman - Mordant Music


Label: Honest Jon's Records
Catalog#: HJP53
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
New
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Dubstep, Experimental


Tracklist

A Fireworks

B Fireworks, Aussen Vor Remix By T++
Remix – T++

C Undeadman

D Undeadman, ReMMix By Mordant Music
Remix – Mordant Music

Credits
Artwork By – Zeke Clough
Design – Will Bankhead
© Honest Jon's Records 2011

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode (Scanned): 4047179557962


The second of two Shackleton releases from Honest Jon's, this time featuring two new tracks and 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 the T++ remix, 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.


Shackleton (live) at Fabric

2011-Mar-13