Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Dawn Razor & ArcheTech - Half Life (Homage Records)

 


Title: Half Life

Artist: Dawn Razor & ArcheTech

Label: Homage Records

Cat Number: HOMAGE029

Genre: The Breaks Spectrum


1: Food Farm

2: Wonder Land

3: Lap Top

4: Radar

5: Elect Row

6: Anna Logia

7: Glides

8: From The Cradle To The Hood

9: Hg Yui

10: One


‘Half Life’ is a collection of retrospectively released tracks, originally released on NARA Records, but since lost to the world after the demise of Lobster Theremin. And to label it as “break beats”,as I have, is a little simplistic. However, there’s a time and a place for over-analysis so, while I certainly don’t want to dumb things down, here we go. All of the tunes present here clock in at over 5 minutes, a small detail maybe, but one that tells me that these bits are made for mixing. There’s also plenty of space within the beats and the underlying feel is one of a hybrid approach, enhanced by bass, ‘Elect Row’ being a particularly good example of this, and  crossing over into electro, which is particularly noticeable on the tunes that occupy the second half: ‘Anna Logia’, ‘Glides’, ‘From The cradle To The Hood’, and ‘Hg Yui’. The final track, ‘One’, being something altogether more fragile and lighter, and similar to a lot of more whimsical stuff I’ve noticed over the last couple of years. Back to front, as this write up is, we come to the first four tracks which set the tone with an analogous battery of various shapes and sizes, all of which, in my considered opinion are breaks orientated more than anything else. It’s all academic though, as this excellent analogous collection defies straightforward categorisation being the proverbial six of one and half a dozen of the other.


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