Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Shcuro - Signs Of Unsettlement (Klakson)


 

Title: Signs Of Unsettlement

Artist: Shcuro

Label: Klakson

Cat Number: KLNR 15

Genre: Electro


1: Predictive Mechanisms

2: Exclusion

3: Surface Tension

4: Unbearable Heaviness


So many great things coming out of Portugal nowadays, and Shcuro, who is one of them, debuts on Steffi’s Klakson with a four tracker of fast, portentous electro resplendent on blue vinyl. To be fair, the beats are  in techno territory quite a lot of the time; how do we know this? I have no idea, it’s just a feeling, in very much the same way that house is. So ‘Predictive Mechanisms’ is very definitely intergalactic funk, but hard-edged and uncompromising. ‘Exclusion’  stretches the timeframe along machine funk’s lateral line into the slamming techno stratosphere. ‘Surface Tension’ utilises similar motifs to its predecessor, but couches them within b-boy quantum mechanics; and ‘Unbearable Heaviness’ feels like future gothic Mordor music. Transplant the Yorkshire Moors of ‘Wuthering Heights’ into the pervasive button down brain of future funk and you’re almost there.

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