MJSB - 5 Rhythms (Create Define Release)

 

Title: 5 Rhythms

Artist: MJSB

Label: Create Define Release

Cat Number: CDR005

Genre: Techno

1: Install

2: Connect

3: Movement Meditation

4: One Last Thing

5: Movement Meditation (Detroit City Remix)

MJSB’s ‘5 Rhythms’ is just that. Four original tracks that utilise a shifting percussive pattern at various junctures, topped off with a Terrence Dixon remix of what is perhaps the heaviest of the four, ‘Movement Meditation.’ Both ‘Install’ and ‘Connect’ come in at similar points. The former paving the way for the more limber latter with its slightly more studied approach. Both tracks make imaginative use of a subtle sub bass and space feels more abundant the further one gets to the end of each. ‘Movement Meditation’ takes things deeper by virtue of its weightier beats, vocal sample and vital tribal embellishments. It’s high is really hit, however, with the addition of the keys, which quickly become a sonic g spot. ‘One Last Thing’ is crisper than its precedent, but with a similar degree of emphasis and drama. While Terrence Dixon evokes the spirit of mid nineties French trip hop to get things started with his remix. It’s a feeling that continues throughout the track, thanks to the whispering voice and the key stab, stretched to its limit as far as bpms are concerned, it’s by no means linear, nosebleed techno, using as it does a completely different range of abstract harmonic flourishes to gather its momentum.