Title: New Harbinger EP
Artist: X-Altera
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat Number: SNKR029
Genre: Jungle/Hardcore/Rave
1: Maximum (Love Eachother)
2: New Harbinger
3: Ribbon On A Bomb
There’s so much of this stuff coming out at the moment it’s difficult to stand out. This release manages to do just that though. X-Altera is another pseudonym of Tadd Mullinix and while he uses this guise to deploy junglish tropes, it’s done in a way like no other. The three tunes are disembodied and fragmentary. Their abstractions, however, do have a sort of elastic cohesion. Forms solidify and melt away throughout. Both ‘Maximum (Love Eachother)’ and ‘New Harbinger’ allude to the presence of other dimensions through their constant entropic unpredictability. There is a randomness about them that would be sloppy in the wrong hands, whereas here it feels like genius. ‘Ribbon On A Bomb’ is perhaps the most “conventional” piece here, but of course it’s not really, it’s whirling, break beat core being a distraction from the more interesting disparate elements that fly around it. So good.
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