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...according to our Brett on Thu 19 Feb, 2009.
Erm.. A new 12" on Hyperdub featuring a side from Joker that's a bit shit, frankly. 'Digidesign' sounds like clowns dropping synth-filled wardrobes on children inside the flaming ring of a cheese circus. The beats are overly simplistic and make you want to snap your fingers in a pisstakey way, the vocal samples are annoying as fuck and the fusionish keyboards have given Phil an upset tummy. 2000F & J Kamata fare much better on the other side with a tune ('You Don't Know What Love Is' - I want you to show me) that contains some REALLY familiar elements that I can't quite place, I think it might be some Zomby tunes I'm thinking of.. In any case, this does sound a lot like him and it's really quite good. It'd be cool if Zomby was really a woman and he'd just strapped himself down and donned a mask for the photo sessions. I reckon he's Edwina Currie. As a side note, the two runout grooves on this are better than most of the stuff we've listened to so far today.2009 finds Hyperdub marking their fifth anniversary, and the first of many astonishing outings lined up to celebrate the half-decade is delivered by prodigious Bristolian synth wizard Joker, dropping his debut release on the label, backed by the talk-box sleeze of Danish producers 2000F & J Kamata. This new equal-front-side12” is yet another in Hyperdub’s series of tunes putting the fun firmly back into synthesizers. Already well known for bombs like ‘Gullybrook Lane’, ‘Hollybrook Park’ and his recent epic ‘Play Doe’ with Rustie, Joker’s ‘Digidesign’ staggers in with a laid back groove and twisted bass synth, but it’s all about the infectious melody in the middle. On the flip, 2000f & J Kamata’s much-anticipated ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ opens up a 1985 vintage can of robofunk R&B earworms that will eat your audio nerves alive. The words ‘dubstep’ and ‘wonky’ were not harmed in the writing of these sales notes.
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