New release on Badawi’s own new Index imprint, this 12†is Raz Mesinai’s finest work to date, wonderfully gloomy, repetitious synth stabs, stripped down percussion, and subtle dubbed out techno grooves. El Topo takes this and runs with it, stripping everything back to almost nothing before bringing everything back together. “DstryPrfts†gets the remix treatment from the mammoth Shackleton, Skull Disco may be dead, but the Shackleton vision of percussive mesmerism continues. Shackleton works again with vocalist and modern day poet Vengeance Tenfold, to add an apocalypse to the gloom, there seems to be something so fitting about the spoken tones of Vengeance and the stripped down rhythms of Shackleton’s interpretation of the original, deep. “Stem1†is a 1 minute 40 second snippet of sound, a taster of things to come maybe?
Raz Mesinai has always done things a little differently, and teaming up with Shackleton on this 12†vinyl release is a stroke of genius, when so many dubstep producers seem to be following a stale recipe for more of the same, Badawi serve up something fresh, and very very deep.
Wayne Stronell
