Deepchild has progressed much further than most have expected since his debut in the late 1990s. His latest releases have begun enveloping many aspects of bass music culture, and has shown he is now even at the forefront of home grown dubstep and newer ‘funky’ styles.
“Shameless In Seattle” picks up the funky tag, mixed with heavily chopped and screwed hip hop lyricism, reminiscent of artists like Shadowhuntaz, while “Wannado” injects an Asian flavour over warm synth washes and detached house vocal refrains. Gravious from the Highpoint Lowlife label add a bed of percussion and rolling bass interlocking with crisp Detroit synth melodies, showing another side to their darker beast within. Sydney’s Westernsynthetics add a darker edge to “Shameless In Seattle”, keeping the chopped vocal, stripping down the rhythm and adding an almost Autechre style machine melody, intricately weaving its way through the mix.
This is a world class EP that needs to be checked out, you just have to support Australian, especially when it’s this good.
Wayne Stronell
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