Kode9 - Black Sun/2 Far Gone

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 12 Mar, 2009.

Right then what's Kode9 up to? Apparently he's moved into producing "Funky" which is the fucking stupidest genre tag to be put on house since lord knows what "Hard bag" or some shit. Now I doubt that I'll ever hear anything by him that had the impact of his early stuff but he's moving on both with his sound and the direction of the label. It's just that I dearly miss all those wonderful dub elements. 'Black Sun' is a pretty slick exotic sounding tune with synths galore bordering on "Wonky" and somewhere in between Flying Lotus and and Ikonika. The percussion is pretty tight. '2 Far Gone' on the flip is more up my street though with it's paranoid vocal sample and jacking snares. Again this relies heavily on synths along with some sweet squelchy bubbling sounds. The drums are damn funky too. 12" on Hyperdub.

‘Black Sun’ started life as a ceremonially torched copy of The Sun newspaper and ended up as a weirdly euphoric, smeared synth workout that Kode9 has been mixing in his recent “funky” sets. Wavering and pitch-bent tones wind their way around a broken rhythm, while the bassline bubbles manically from beneath. ‘2 Far Gone’, on the flip, similarly sends recent strains of UK house rhythm into modulating analogue drone. Sounds like 9’s been drinking acid rain. Whatever this is, we’re not sure where it came from and don’t quite have words to describe it yet. Nor do we need them.

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