Title: Darkroom EP
Artist: James Shinra
Label: Craigie Knowes
Cat Number: CKNOWEP22
Genre: Electro
A1: Kord
A2: Gyorgy
B1: Gritti
B2: At The End Of The World
A veritable pot pourri of critical beats this. Cross pollination at its most effortless and incisive. With this release, James Shinra has made sure that Craigie Knowes in ending the year on a high, and in a year full of them that’s no mean feat. Electro is the dominant motif, but it’s by no means the only one. From the opening bars of the impressive, multitude containing ‘Kord’, through to the trance-inflected, surfing on glacial synapses of ‘At The End Of The World’, this EP brings together multiple sonic strands and manipulates them with a lightness of touch that can only be described as masterly. Breakbeats play a slightly subordinate, but no less important role throughout, and rise to the top on ‘Gyorgy’, while ‘Gritti’ further emphasizes the acid squelches of its predecessor. Play loud and make it, and music like it, more than an after dark experience.
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