Title: Fugitive Pieces
Artist: V/A
Label: Seagrave
Cat Number: SR082
Genre: Hardcore/Breaks/Experimental
1: Darksides – Etch
2: CupcakKe – Brian Rays & Quiet
3: Hydon Too – Stereotyp
4: Negative 7 – Drumskull
5: Silk01d – Ice_Eyes
6: Breeze – ScanOne
7: Gargoyles Laser – Sentry
8: Robots (feat. Mignon) – REQ
9: Akropolis – Ekoplekz
10: SOORC – SDEM
Genre-wise, this compilation is the sum total of all its parts. I have no idea what’s going on for the most part. However, I feel confident in asserting that whatever is represented isn’t standing still. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Beats are no sooner delivered, than mutated. Starting off at flatworm tempo, REQ’s ‘Robots’ feels like an elegy to Pre-Cambrian cybernetics. Ekoplekz and SDEM weigh in with similar somnolent, but heavier cuts. The livelier tunes take up the first half of the collection, the first six all indulging themselves in the percussive dark arts, with a bias towards break beat, that may or may not manifest itself in the realms of drum and bass. Etch is perhaps the most overt exponent of this. A great glimpse of the hardcore continuum in a modern context with a side order of abstraction.
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