- Breakbeat techno or hip-house? Maybe not a usual dilemma, but Paul Woolford's latest single, for London-based Phonica record store and label, toes the line between the two, taking his recent, somewhat slinky sound ("Bloodline") and unscrewing it just a little bit more so everything sounds dangerously wonky.
"Can't Do Without," with its slamming kick and shuddering static chords feigns Berghain-associated toughness. But about a minute in, a loud synth wail signals the rather abrupt entrance of audacious, well-oiled breaks that loosely orbit around the central rhythm, a disorienting effect that duels for attention with the song's less challenging thump. The violent motion sickness is accentuated by a playful descending bassline and an oddly-timed vocal sample that stutters and echoes in swathes across the track. "Bareback" isn't quite as light-hearted, slithering through a bed of tape hiss before exploding into wandering percussive shards and ravey chord stabs that act as the ghost of the lumbering stomp from "Can't Do Without."
Lista de sequência de músicas A Can't Do Without
B Bareback