Freeformaniacs Round 9 – Munted Takeover! feat Plasma Dancer, Midas, Aryx, and Pearsall (30/05/2013)
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Last week saw a very special edition of the Freeformaniacs show in honour of Munted presents Animal House, this Friday, June 7, 2013 at Union in Vauxhall, London! Two hours of real deal underground freeform music, featuring Plasma Dancer (Thank You For The Horse), Aryx (the Slovenian boy wonder), Midas (Munted/Scarred Digital) and Pearsall (Sonicrampage, and also, erm, me). This was originally due to include Douglas, but he wasn’t able to participate in the end, so I literally stepped in at the last minute and recorded my half hour the night before transmission.
If you are going to the party tonight have a great time!
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Best known for his long-running partnership with Ed Rush, Optical (known to his mom as Matt Quinn) was originally a solo producer, responsible for many excellent releases like this one, which appeared in 1997 on Metro Recordings, a label owned by his brother, Matrix. It’s not a particularly complicated tune, but a highly effective one. For the first minute and twenty seconds there are no beats, just deep, atmospheric chords, with the first hints of percussion percolating through at about the one minute mark. When the beat finally drops, it is a crisp two-stepper undergirded by a grimily distorted bassline, the legendary Reece bass tortured into a new shape. And that’s … about it. A simple and hypnotic tune – if you’re listening to this on headphones you can’t help but move, and if you are on the dancefloor you find yourself swept away without being really conscious of it.
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