dBridge Releases 'Move Way' EP Today
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 13, 2013
To have this release on R&S feels like the most natural thing in the world. This is the label that put out Lemon D and Jacob's Optical Stairway (aka 4 Hero) in the 1990s, placing drum and bass firmly within the continuum of international electronic music - and there is nobody better place to draw the links between the current drum and bass scene and the wider world of techno, electronica and bass music than dBridge.
The record opens with a sample of Jamaican wisdom that leads into the Skeptical collaboration, "Move Way." This track is a perfect example of the half-tempo rhythms that dBridge helped pioneer, a kind of drum and bass parallel to the deepest dubstep, yet which still maintains the momentum of 170bpm parent genre through subliminal flickers of percussion. "Death of a Drum Machine" is a more standard drum and bass roller rhythmically, but is embellished by filmic piano chords and absolutely exquisite production. Finally, "Plain to See" steps outside genre completely. Again with the half-step/double-time thing going on, it's simply a piece of great electronica: a love letter to vintage electronic drum sounds yet utterly modern, rich in slowly unfolding layers of synth melody and harmony, and the perfect counterpart to the other two tracks on this beautifully structured EP. You can now hear the title track over at FACT.
dBridge
Move Way EP
R&S Records
Street Date: August 13, 2013
12" / Digital
1. Move Way
2. Death Of A Drum Machine
3. Plain To See
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