Timothy Clerkin - Fading EP (Insult To Injury)

 

Title: Fading EP

Artist: Timothy Clerkin

Label: Insult To Injury

Cat Number: ITI#024

Genre: Over Souped

1: Fading

2: Sigma

3: Fading (Dub)

4: Collapsed Lung

5: Fading (Radio Edit)

‘Fading’ features here in three versions. The original is some sort of diluted Goa trance tune. The type of tune that when you’re thinking of it you imagine a load of frogs tightrope walking, or something like that. There’s an eponymous vocal and breakdowns which are no doubt, designed to give you pause for thought while grappling with the rave gods in the eye of the synthetic storm. At the beginning of ‘Sigma’, a voice intones, “I don’t give a fuck”, which is nice because I don’t either. So that makes two of us. ‘Sigma’ is a darker and much superior tune to ‘Fading’, having a nice hoover type effect and layered percussion. However, it leaves me feeling daed inside. So there’s that. After all of this hyperactivity, ‘Collapsed Lung’ is more or less ambient. A melancholic track that snakes its way through a sparse, almost beat less environment; it jarrs slightly, but purposefully. It’s not exactly what you’d want on during a come down though. Also, I believe there is a Posthuman remix of the title track, but that’s only on vinyl. I wonder what that’s like?