- As iconic husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames once wrote: "The details are not the details; they make the product." Or, to use another adage, it's the little things that count. London-based Aggborough has been making little things count over the last year or so with his focus on the finer elements of electronic music. Strange vocal samples and a stranger array of field recordings are some of the tools in his kit, which so far has produced two OTB records and a split with fellow Londoner Ashworth on his newly minted No Real Value label.
Where No Real Value is a precise and tangible extension of Aggborough's ideology—each release is a sonic consideration of a specific time, event or location; in the case of Slag Heap, an old slate mine in Wales—his OTB records have adopted more random formations. But whether dealing with a Bukowski truism spoken over a steely house beat, or some dreamy dub confession, Aggborough's endearing dance floor rhetoric has continued to impress.
Heygate maintains both OTB's and Aggborough's standards. "In A Sieve" transforms lines from a nonsensical limerick by Edward Lear into a dark, creeping jaunt. Then "Traces," all spiky and metallic, begins like another tough house number, before it slowly mellows and softens. "Heygate" concludes the EP in a tangle of melancholic melodies and big bassy kicks. It smacks of transitioning from late night to early morning; it's warm and gentle, unfurling with subtle elegance, but there's enough force behind it to keep you going when you should be on your way home.
Lista de sequência de músicasA1 In A Sieve
B1 Traces
B2 Heygate