Jaša Bužinel
, May 4th, 2021 07:28
For the latest edition of Hyperspecific, Jaša Bužinel looks at recent DJ stream highlights and reviews eight brilliant albums and a peculiar compilation from Rochelle Jordan, Lea Bertucci, Andy Stott, Khalab & M berra Ensemble and more
Lea Bertucci
Like many people, for most of the pandemic I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with all the DJ live streams that kept accumulating on my tab bar. I think most of us have developed a love-hate relationship with this format and accepted it as a necessary evil that keeps the scene afloat for the time being. But in most cases, the experience of watching a person mixing in his or her own bedroom with some plants and colourful LED lights in the background wasn’t really that rewarding, no matter the selection. At one point, I just gave up and deleted most of the links I’ve been keeping for months, opting for the classic radio show and DJ mix format instead.
Never The Right Time
Liam Inscoe-Jones
, April 23rd, 2021 08:13
Manchester s Andy Stott feels more washed out than dubbed out on his latest collection, finds Liam Inscoe-Jones
For much of the last decade, Andy Stott felt like the obvious inheritor of the UK dub mantle. His music slowed techno down to a heavy, glacial pace, until it felt less suited for nightclub soundsystems than solitary nighttime walking with headphones on and hoods up. His sturdy and gloomy compositions were engaging for their intensity rather than their BPMs, and seemed to reflect the damp streets and brutal concrete of his Manchester home. Albums like
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Marking 10 years since he set off down his path of dour, slow-motion techno, the Manchester musician returns to his familiar palette of ashen moods and richly textured electronics.
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A decade ago, the Manchester-based electronic musician Andy Stott extinguished the dub-techno torch heâd been carrying for Basic Channel and plunged into some lightless place where all the usual values got switched around. From that murk, he retrieved a pair of acclaimed short albums,
We Stay Together, which set his course for the next 10 years. What had been fast would be slow, what had been trim would be mussed, and what had been roomy would be cramped. Steep slopes were leveled flat, perpendicular lines knocked out of plumb. His affable name now seems like an accidental vestige of this transformation. Itâs easy to think of an Andre making this spooky, severe music, maybe even an Andrewâbut an
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