Thrived - Bionic Gradient (VOITAX)

 

Title: Bionic Gradient

Artist: Thrived

Label: VOITAX

Cat Number: VOI 033

Genre: Bass/Breaks

1: Amber Solstice

2: Phlutoe

3: Evil Cell

4: Predative

5: Yresss

6: Aerofoil

There’s a lot going on in this EP. The sauce that pulls everything together is a thick mix of bass and breaks. However, what keeps things bubbling apart from the beats is a momentous sense of disturbing dirge. Rhythmically there is a lot on show here. The low notes are pervasive, with an adventurous approach to sound design on the bass foundation. Restraint is everything, with ‘Evil Cell’, ‘Yress’ and ‘Aerofoil’ occasionally breaking free of the apocalyptic ambience shrouding the EP a little more than the other tracks. That said though, this EP hangs together wonderfully to soundtrack uncertainty and life’s underside across its abstract sequencing, which contain enough introspection and funk to render it a polyvalent excursion for any setting.