- Having debuted last summer with an EP on I Used To Sleep At Night that touched on a number of stops along the bass-house continuum, Niall Cropper's Blah Blah Blah debut contains his most cohesive work to date. Best of all, he sounds like he's having a whole bunch of fun while doing it.
"Drift" begins with a twinkling music box melody that's offset by low-end rumble, elegantly transforming the track into shimmering, arp-drenched house. Propelled by an elastic bassline and entwined by snake-hipped synths, it screams summer. As lovely as it is, it's "Deeper" that will garner the most attention. A feature of Huxley's recent Boiler Room set, it dispenses with "Drift"'s opening niceties and goes straight for the dance floor jugular, dragged there on a complex rhythm that—unwittingly or not—owes a debt to the stop-start rhythms of soca. Around it, Cropper builds a wall of trippy analogue synths, fizzing disco pulses, dubbed out, Jamiroquai-sampling vocals and a brooding interjection from a chapel-style organ. The London-based Bristolian has a way with twisting the maximum value out of his basslines and integrating them with rhythm tracks that kick hard but subtlety. Cropper's one to watch, on this evidence.
Lista de sequência de músicas A Drift ft. Schumen
B Deeper