FANTASTIC FOUR
This issue’s hottest four names in dance music
Telepathe Spyro
New York space steppers up the ante… Rinse FM man keeps it grimy…
IF you’ve spent the last few months having your mind expanded by the pris- ONCE the swaggering new kid on the musical block, grime has been looking
tine space-pop of MGMT and TV On The Radio, rest assured that New York has a bit battered and cowed of late. Pioneers like Dizzee, Wiley and Bizzle have
plenty more where those glorious rackets came from. For 2009 is set to be the decamped to more lucrative pastures, and a generation of kidz from da endz
year that strange-haired Brooklynites melt our collective faces with all man- who might’ve been expected to pick up the grime baton have instead pledged
ner of hallucinatory wonderment — and the most promising of these dilated their allegiance to dubstep, bassline and (who’da thunk it?) funky house.
young upstarts are Melissa Livaudais and Busy Ganges, aka Telepathe.
However, the grime fl ame is being kept burning by a hardcore of MCs, produc-
If the duo’s 2008 single ‘Chrome’s On It’ set the blogosphere alight with its ers and DJs, at the forefront of which is Rinse FM selector Spyro, mainstay
zeitgeisty interbreeding of art-rock wooziness, dubstep bass-pressure and of the stalwart pirate’s coveted Saturday-evening spot. Regularly hailed as
sugary pop catchiness, then their album ‘Dance Mother’ (out now on V2), the second coming of grime for his commitment to dropping only the very
ought to see Telepathe cross over big-time. Impeccably produced by TVOTR weightiest and most exclusive of dubs, the East London DJ/producer also
sound-sculptor Dave Sitek, it’s fearlessly adventurous and dripping with stands out thanks to the robot-tightness of his CDJ skills, expertly showcased
insouciant cool, but instantly accessible nonetheless. on ‘Rinse:07 Spyro’ — out February on Rinse — Spyro’s fi ery instalment of the
“Dave Sitek calls us ‘hookers’,” said Livaudis. “In that we’re totally into mak- station’s mix CD series. Grrrime lives! (JM)
ing sick hooks.” (JM)
The Niallist Rennie Foster
Glasgow’s underground beatsmith constructs lo-fi opus… Ghostly beats from Canadian wunderkind…
THE psychedelic cut ‘n’ paste nebulas of The Niallist’s lo-fi universe swirl out THE otherworldly and haunting tones of Rennie Foster’s ‘Devil’s Water’ (out
from his underground bunker in Glasgow, and like fellow Scots Lone Pigeon now on Rebirth) are light-years away from anything considered to be house
and The Beta Band, this producer is an expert in creating ramshackle songs music in the past or present. But rest assured that the eerie, celestial vocals
and beat experiments that beguile and befuddle in equal measure. The latest and blurred, elegiac acoustic guitars of this singular track, bound together by
in a series of low down releaes, the prolifi c music maker’s latest LP ‘Lo Fi crackling, blipping minimal beats, are set to take over fast.
Gold’ is actually his third in a year and is out now on indie imprint Little Rock
Records — spanning electronic boogie beasts like ‘Disconeckshun’ to the Its icy, emotive fog beckoning us inexorably towards the banks of the River
frankly bizarre classical samples and atmospheric displacement of ‘Vietnam in Styx, ‘Devil’s Water’ has already been circulating for several months on promo
Dub’. and been rinsed by Zabiela, Sasha and James Holden. It’s both a bone-chilling
voyage of dark beauty and a booty shuffl er par excellence.
One of those rare albums that seems to exist in its own sound world, ‘Lo Fi Canadian ex-pat Foster now resides in Tokyo, a city he fell in love with after
Gold’ traverses a bewildering number of styles but manages to hold the atten- visiting it for several DJ gigs. Indeed, you can just hear the tones of ‘Devil’s
tion rapt throughout. Water’ echoing around the bowels of Shibuya tech cavern Womb.
With Italo releases on Radius Records, and some forthcoming releases which Get yourself acquainted with Foster quick-smart. (BM)
he describes as a camp take on baile funk, keep an eye on the Niallist. (BM)
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