| Zomby / Ultra |
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| Album: | Ultra | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Zomby | Added: | Feb 2017 | |
| Label: | Hyperdub | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-03-15 | Pull Date: | 2017-05-17 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica |
| Week Ending: | May 7 | Apr 30 | Apr 23 | Apr 16 | Apr 9 | Mar 26 | Mar 19 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 27, 2017: | Ode to Year Two Glass | 4. | Apr 20, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Glass | |
| 2. | May 04, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Quandry (Feat. Darkstar) | 5. | Apr 13, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants I | |
| 3. | Apr 27, 2017: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Quandry (Feat. Darkstar) | 6. | Apr 11, 2017: | All Passion No Technique Sweetz (Feat. Burial) |
| Album Review |
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| Shay Z Reviewed 2017-03-05 | ||
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A multi-faceted, electronic music outing from UK producer Zomby. A minimalist experimentalist at heart, Zomby rarely pursues fully fleshed out songs. He follows an individual idea for the course of a track and then apparently drops it for the rest of the album. These chopped, creaking, cranky tunes vary from distorted R&B to low-fi jungle to vaporwavey bliss. A general icy feeling abounds. Find what you like and play it! Genre: Post-dubstep Jungle, ‘Electronic’, Grime, eskibeat RIYL: Burial, Ital Tek, Demdike Stare, Andy Stott Favorite Tracks: 3, 6, 7 (FCC), 9, 12 FCCs: Track 7 Reflection (4:59) - gun shots, twinkling blips, the scene is set Swaggering bravado of instrumental with spacey spoken sample Burst (2:03) - consistently avoids a consistent beat Fly 2 (5:28)* - Rhythmic chopped vocals with buzzing breathing creating awesome sound scapes, verges on an almost danceable beat. Slow down at 2:25 kinda annoying E.S.P. (3:00) - dark strings, shaky percussion I (2:03) - “I” sample, cool drum line, nice idea Glass (4:29)** - dancey bass line, clapping percussion, really hits its stride Sweetz (6:58)* - (FCC Fuck throughout) Unfortunately no way of cleaning this, great influence of Burial on this pondering track Her (4:52) - spacey, cool synth builds Quandary (4:20)* - Nice! Plucky, bouncy, oooo, really strong kick and loop at 2:15 Freeze (2:17) - song name solid descriptor, icy synths, shattered beats Yeti (2:18) - thematically similar to previous track, shards of icy computer waste S.D.Y.F (5:33)* - Love the percussion on this, some great jungle with spacey synths Thaw (3:57) - warm thawing of the ice? Drumless spacey Tenkyuu (3:39) - rain with ghostly close, echoing, conveying of large cavernous spaces | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Reflection | 7. | Sweetz (Feat. Burial) | |||
| 2. | Burst | 8. | Her | |||
| 3. | Fly 2 (Feat. Banshee) | 9. | Quandry (Feat. Darkstar) | |||
| 4. | E.S.P. | 10. | Freeze | |||
| 5. | I | 11. | Yeti | |||
| 6. | Glass | 12. | S.D.Y.F. (Feat. Rezzett) | |||
| 13. | Thaw | |||||