Shifted - In Respect Of Tactics
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Channel: 7296272962 · 2016 · Music
Released by: Hospital Productions Release/catalogue number: HOS-470 Release date: Oct 14, 2016 Buy and support: http://boomkat.com/products/appropriation-stories http://hospitalproductions.net http://facebook.com/shiftedUK http://soundcloud.com/shifted Shifted's debut for Hospital Productions following an album for sublabel Bed Of Nails in 2013. Integrating his more searching work as Alexander Lewis and his increasingly introspective work as Shifted while eloquently addressing his past, 'Appropriation Stories' is a comprehensive statement of intent and Brewer's finest, most mature work to-date. Reinforcing his aesthetic binds and conceptual compatibility with Dominick Fernow’s infamous label, Appropriation Stories explores a palette of greyscale tones and monotone rhythm, but, if one lets their body look a little closer, it will feel a filigree, elusive swing and roll in the album’s mechanics that signifies a fine-scaled, horizontal gene transfer of ideas from his previous works, effectively drawing on muscle memory instincts with subtle innovation and intricacy. The results are at once primordial yet forward-leaning, deeply in keeping with Hospital Productions ascetic essentialism. In his rigorous hands, techno and experimental electronics are components of a highly-developed rhythmic noise organism, one which is now porous enough to subsume the rolling structures of ‘00s D&B’s classic breaks whilst still undoubtedly holding its ground in the murkiest techno fields. The shift is almost mineral in its timeless nuance, integrating razor sharp digital striations to the analog roil of This Passage at the front, and pursuing that pressure-formed structure thru nine variations that alternately breach the ‘floor, like the tumultuous mass of Vacive and the rolling but irregular grind of Watchers, or the weatherbeaten Spires, whereas pieces such as the blank eyed crusher For Closure, and The Faintest Trace, The Quietest Whisper opt for steelier reductions, whose bleak but finely detailed textures encourage keener introspection. All rights reserved for the producers of these tracks.
