Frying saxophone solos! Synthesizers recreating lost sunny days! Nihilistically lewd mixtapes inspiring dozens of new entries on Urban Dictionary! Tricked-out dubstep for American mall rats! The musical trends that defined much of 20112s critically-lauded output were roundly ignored by my favorite records of the year. The best albums of the year invented their own one-band microgenres. EMA gave us California confessional poetry, while WU LYF reinvented protest punk for a generation without a cause. Wolves in the Throne Room continued to hone their environmental black metal. Das Racist refined their postmodern identity joke rap. Peaking Lights invented Midwestern dub, and [...]
This collaboration makes sense, both were foundational figures in the dubstep community and had or have hugely influential labels with Tectonic and Skull Disco , respectively. This is where a lot of their similarities end, though, with Pinch more firmly dedicated to the hub of "bass music" and the half-step drum pattern, and Shackleton isolating himself to the colder climes of Germany with a more ethereal aesthetic, having abandoned Bristol for Berlin several years back. Their combination pushes Pinch's record selector impulses over Shackleton's notorious reclusiveness. The darkness, which both regularly imbibe upon, [...]
[ Honest Jon's Records ] Even though he began his career in partnerships with Appleblim, Gatekeeper, Mordant Music, and others, it's difficult not to think of Shackleton as a lone wolf. Over the last few years, releases like Three EPs and Fabric 55 have solidified his voice as one of the most individual in dance music. Pinch, Shackleton's collaborator here, [...]
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Pinch & Shackleton's debut album came out last week, much to everyone's surprise. The two dubstep heavyweights managed to pull together a concise piece of work, with mind blowing bass lines and tight percussion jittering on top. It's the kind of music where the elegance lies in its simplicity, as each part is carefully placed into the arrangement. Make sure you listen to this one on loud to fully appreciate it. Torn and Submerged
Pinch and Shackleton Pinch and Shackleton // Jay and 'Ye's Watch the Throne was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of collaboration, a meeting of the minds between minds that, considering their respective stations in life, seem essentially unmeetable. But the album worked precisely because the pair played to their respective strengths: Jay was the gracious host to Kanye's increasingly bracing pronouncements about fame and fortune. As a sort of underground analogue to this dream team, Pinch and Shackleton have released an eponymous album that functions kind of like a Watch the Thrones for the theoretical bass set. And [...]
Sach O sits alone in his four-cornered room staring at empty redbull cans. Pinch & Shackleton is a wonderful exercise in stubbornness. Devoid of easily identifiable signifiers, it's tempting to tag it with complex genre descriptions - post this and step that. But you'd be missing the point entirely. This collaboration between two of Dubstep's second-generation geniuses returns to the community's pre-genre, pre-meme ideals of heaviness and darkness. It uses them to craft a rewarding statement that refuses all pigeonholing. If you really need a reference point, I guess Burial [...]
Originally due for a December release, Pinch (above) and Shackleton 's joint album has been on the cards for the best part of a year. The album is out now on Damon Albarn's Honest Jon's Records. The more discerning Dubstep fan will have known about this release for a while and will be looking forward to followups to both 'Underwater Dancehall' and 'Three EPs' from Pinch and Shackleton respectively. So I'm sure much excitement will abound that both needs will be met in one fell swoop. Drawing together patches [...]
The Rhythm Factory has been pitching upfront underground club nights to Londoners for almost 13 years now. Its two perfectly sized rooms will play host not only to Mary Ann Hobbs, who's incredibly successful XFM show, Sonar stage presentations and compilation CDs have put her at the absolute forefront of the scene about which she [...]
Sonar 2011 - Thursday | Friday | Saturday The daytime line-up on Saturday fails to offer much by way of stunning material. There seems to be an organised lull, perhaps to allow the jaded Sonar patrons to catch some much needed rest. Gilles Peterson , however, still manages to woo the audience with his eclectic mix of global music. Few people have as broad a taste in music as Peterson. His set consists of a worldwide musical trip with stops at Caribbean dancehall, Spanish samba, and North American soul. Playing at [...]
Samedi soir, c'est une soirée du label Dement3d au Social club qui vont fêter leur toute première sortie avec un EP de DSCRD prévu en juin. BONUS: Pour l'occasion The Burped Sneakers t'offre cette EP de DSCRD en laissant un simple commentaire sur l'article . N'oublie pas de laisser ton adresse mail pour que l'on puisse te contacter. LINE UP: > SHACKLETON [...]
Ever since Sam Shackleton produced an exclusive album for Fabric (55), I have been itching for singles off that release. In the past couple of months, Honest Jon's , Blur frontman Damon Albarn's label, has released two massive Shackleton pressings - Deadman and Fireworks. A sampling of these two releases (featured below) exemplifies best the soul-searching that Shackleton's music evokes (not for the lighthearted). I read a comment recently categorizing Shackleton's music as "Industrial Voodoo." I am not going to sit here and debate the merits of such an assertion. It's best you take a [...]
Ablehearts_GetIt.mov Hayloft - Mother Mother Evol Intent - Paradize City Creep - Days (Deadboy Remix) James Blake - CMYK Rainbow Arabia - Omar K (Satanic Arcade 83- - Invisible Dread Mix) Ablehearts - For Signs Chairman Kato - Gemini Eyes Shackleton - Undeadman (Mordant Music Remix) [...]
Shackleton is back with a bang as he launches the "Fireworks" EP. Having started with Skull Disco and weaved his way through early Dubstep he found himself producing one of the best Fabric albums in some time with his sound moving far more towards techno. For this release on Honest Johns that theme continues with added tribal spice. Things are taken even darker with the inclusion of a mind bending remix from T++ as part of the package. Shackleton - Fireworks [...]
Sam Shackleton will be performing in the decommissioned Cork Airport as part of next months Terminal Convention art festival. Joining him at this unusual location on Friday the 17th will be Vindicatrix, Ekoplekz and Baron Mordant for a special Mordant Music showcase. The art and music festival runs from the 17th to the 27th of March in various locations around Cork City. For more info visit the Festival's website: http://www.terminalconvention. com/
[ Fabric ] ( buy CD ) ( buy mp3s ) When it was announced that Shackleton would helm Fabric 55 I was a little surprised. The legendary London club's flagship mix series has been known to be a little stuffy - generally high standards regardless, it's usually reserved for techno and house. It's all the more surprising because there is literally no one who sounds like Shackleton, and Shackleton doesn't seem like the type of artist to concede to other people's expectations. His music carries traces [...]
For all the Rebel readers who dig the deeper sound of bass, you've probably already heard of the hype surrounding Outlook Festival in Croatia going down this September 1-4.. Now in its fourth year, the festival draws an unparalleled caliber of artists from the dubstep, dub, reggae, hip hop, grime, drum & bass, jungle, house, garage, techno, electronica & beats subsets of the larger global bass community, housed over four days in an abandoned Roman fort on the Adriatic coast. Following my unreal experience at the festival last year, I imagined it would be hard for [...]
ブリティッシュ・プロ デューサー Shackleton (Fabric, ~scape, Woe To The Septic Heart!) のEP。Damon Albarn のレーベル Honest Jon's Records よりリリース。T++ [Torsten Pröfrock], Mordant Music
ブリティッシュ・プロ デューサー Shackleton (Fabric, Perlon, Skull Disco) のEP。Damon Albarn のレーベル Honest Jon's Records よりリリース。King Midas Sound リミックス収録
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