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Spiritflesh - Menace | NoCorner [NC12006]

NC12006 - The debut Spiritflesh release on NoCorner.

first copies of the 12" available via rwdfwd.com 14/06/18. digital will be available via nocorner.bandcamp.com

After dalliances with junglist culture in 2016’s RaggaPreservationSociety EP, SeekersInternational’s latest 12” charts the Canadian sampling collective’s excursions through dubbier waters.

Seekers trademarks all come present and correct, but this set feels less cluttered: opener RunComeTest simmers languidly, the vocal cuttings float, tracing elliptical rings around a beat that never was, while echo and tripped out distortion draw the pads in and out of focus. Spatial awareness is developed masterfully throughout the EP – the tracks swell and pan to fill caverns of their own reverb, in which samples are scattered like clues to past inhabitants, and SKRS give us ample time to poke around and examine the oddities’ every side. FurdaMurda seems to tiptoe right up to the lo-fi textures of hometurf house labels Mood Hut and 1080p, until a piercing crack begins to whip the track into its jaunty grind – it’s the most beat-driven piece in evidence here, but even then the looping cascades won’t be taking us anywhere fast. TrialByFire follows with flanged white noise in the back of the scene – you can almost hear SKRS at work, hoovering the dust off the artefacts. From here on the mood takes a turn for the uneasy, with vocals soft but no more comforting than a burglar’s attempts to rock a baby back to sleep; in TroubleRoundDiCorner samples almost entirely take leave, but the paranoia lingers – pads blotting the canvas with murky colours that bleed into one another, seeing the EP out in rich ambiguity. RunComeTest continues on its way between pop, sample contortionism and sound bwoy psychedelia – into scuffles with nostalgia and out the other side to a hopeful retro-future that only Seekersinternational call home.

ASDA - the McDonald's Prayer (Ossia's Milkshake Mix) | NoCorner

Vessel & chester giles gave us 59 seconds of holy praise, like the feeling of that sugar rush after the first few bites at your local fast food chain. We gave them two remixes, one from Japan Blues, one from Ossia.