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Actress
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Description: | Reissue CD on Werk |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Dubstep / Bass Music | |
| Label: | Werk | |
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£11.39
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
Sold out for the last half-year, this low-impact rhythmic opus returns to circulation to coincide with the release of Actress’ new Honest Jon’s album ’Splazsh’. Actress is the production guise of Werk Discs founder and controller Darren J. Cunningham. ‘Hazyville’ is an abstract document of the convention challenging spirit and sound of Werk, channelled and filtered through the perception of the mind at the helm. ‘Hazyville’ is the first full Actress release since 2004’s ‘No Tricks’ EP. Written over the course of five years through some testing times, ‘Hazyville’ is a creative juxtaposition of raw and uncut sounds, born of elemental processes yet raised and refined at length with parental love and attention. Working to a method of turning the machines on and letting them run, the album’s 11 tracks were all recorded in live takes, but by restricting these sessions to specific mood-windows, each tune is imprinted with emotion in the same way that cooling magma records the Earth’s magnetic polarity as it solidifies to rock. Inspired as much by other Werk artists as by such black afro-futurists as Terrence Dixon, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Carl Craig and Drexciya, ‘Hazyville’ is a psyched out mono-recorded transmission of claustrophobic neon techno from the schools of Detroit, Chicago and South London rave. One man’s personal version of the conceptual value of electronic dance-derived music, and how that in turn characterises itself as actual sounds, ‘Hazyville’ whirrs and hums and rotates like rust-dusted compressed machine-funk.
