Title: James Bangura EP
Artist: James Bangura
Label: Vanity Press
Cat Number: VPR18
Genre: House
1: Broken Mind
2: Color Of Rhythm
3: Lucid Memory
4: 2129
I’m relatively new to Vanity Press, but better late than never. What I’ve liked so far about what I’ve heard is the unpredictability; not just regarding the relases, but also the various tracks within them. Take this fine effort from James Bangura for example: he does like his spoken word samples, which permeate a lot of what is going on here. Both ‘Broken Mind’, ‘Color of Rhythm’ and ;Lucid Memory’ use them instrumentally to add another layer of foundation upon which changeable polyrhythms operate. The former sounds like Robert Hood on crack, the second a frictional, fragmentary syncopated symphony and the latter a space samba. It’s perhaps the stellar break beat suffused strains of ‘2129’ that hit home the most powerfully though.
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