Thursday, January 22, 2026

Track Of Yesterday: Sound Of The Suburbs - Absolute Power


Well this is a radical move. However, it’s one that’s been brewing for a while. I buy most of my music on Bandcamp nowadays.Both vinyl and digital, but mostly the latter. The former having become prohibitively expensive at times, and also taking up too much space. I’ve got enough of it to last me a lifetime anyway, and I’m in the process of shedding, so some Discogs action coming up over the next few weeks. Bandcamp is also the best place to find great producers like my good friend Pete, aka Hursty aka Sloth aka Sound Of The Suburbs. Someone who has been moving within the shadows of most of the important South London/Croydon underground house scenes for a while. And, even though he now lives in Oslo he wields his funky influence from there like a drunken viking with a sword that’s too heavy. ‘Absolute Power’ is a banger, as dem yoot wood say. A ridden typical of the genre offset with a well-researched vocal sample cut and spliced as only a beat sensei like Pete knows how. Definitely one to keep the blood flowing over the winter months and the shapes being thrown. The whole EP is linked to here I think. So dive in on the advice of this not-at-all nepotistic post.

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