Boomkat.com: Valentine
If the notion of trip-hop sends a chill down your spine, then you’ll want to keep clear of Cdatakill’s press release, wherein the T word is invoked to describe the beat hackers latest direction… So is it? Well no, not really - unless your version of trip-hop is mired in dub and seems on the perpetual brink of decay. Having lit the breakcore firmament throughout the 1990’s, Zak Roberts finally settled on the Cdatakill moniker in 2002 and has since fired off a battery of beat gnarled missives that have always retained a healthy distance from the more nihilistic proponents. Very much obsessed with the textures, ‘Valentine’ shares little more than its tempo with trip-hop - as Roberts slices vocals, 808’s, bass and tense beats into a creeping beat-fed beast. Opening through the opaque bass and furnace electronics of ‘No Brakes’, ‘You Are Mine’ soon opens the windows to let a bit of fresh air in - allowing some watercolour soundscapes to intrude on the dungeon beats. Elsewhere, ‘You Are Mine’ indulges in some tribal beats without sounding stupid, ‘Yesterdays’ is a Billie Holiday cover that sounds just as demented as you’d hope, whilst ‘Arapahoe County Sunset’ sees you out the door on a blossom scented breeze - albeit undercut with razor edged beats. Hearts and minds…
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